Wombats got the blues....Monday run

For me this was always one of the toughest couple of weeks....The weeks after I had achieved my goal or after my target race.. I always found it a little tough to make the mind shift from what I'd just done and move onto my next plan..My coach always sat down with me and we went through and planned what we were doing and where we hoped to go. During this process I established both long and short term goals..However I never found the jump to the next goal easy and was always keen to have a sustained celebration... I guess at the end of the day if it was easy everyone would do it.

For me it meant not going off the rails. In my case as a younger athlete that meant not partying hard, staying out late or hitting the drink. It also meant not going stupid with eating anything that was not secured in a safe .(love my food) . As I get older this is still not easy...
Sunday was my target race and Sunday afternoon I had several beers and binged on chocolate (I am soooooooo weak its pathetic) Tonight I found that the last thing I actually wanted to do was train but once again the bloody mind games start... It helped that I was meeting people because it meant I have made a commitment to them so I have to be somewhere at a certain time, it did not help that my right achilles is quite sore/stiff and I had to nurse it while running..

I did pull the pin on doing the session but I got to the meeting place earlier and ran alps of the lakes (5 miles for the day)... This already puts me ahead of last year because I did not run the day after the Bridges in 2008 due to the calf strain / cramp...

Still tonight I sat down with a piece of cheese the size of a car battery and munched away while having a Milo, yeah i know not a great combination but I do so love cheese).

So where to now for the wombat warrior???? Well I have made a commitment to a friend for Busso and so will be running the running leg of the event while he churns through the water and spins through the bike...that gives me the rest of April to build up again and get some considerable strength to enable me to feel confident over the distance.. My Goal for this one, apart from finishing...... beat the 1hr 27 minutes that it took me last time...

I guess I will see you all out there soon.I guess too that it might be time to shed a tear again and ring the 'Doig Myster' .. bugga I'm already sweating thinking about it.

Barrel on wombats.....