Dear Body,
I'm guessing over the next few months we're gonna fall out.
Possibly a lot.
But that's OK, cos ultimately, you will be pleased we did this.
It is likely that you will have days where you are sore and tired.
It is likely that Chimp will try and sabotage everything we are all working towards.
Chimp will want ice cream and lie in's.
Chimp will try and convince you, that being lazy is good.
Chimp will tell us that staying in the warm is better than going out for a run in the rain.
But we know different.
We know that running in the rain is actually lovely sometimes.
We know that getting up and training is hard, yes it is, sleeping is ace, it really is, especially for one as sleepy as we are... but we know that the training won't do itself.
We know that going in the outside when it's cold n blowy makes coming home to the inside even nicer.
We know it will be worth it.
We know that the bad sessions still count.
We need to look at The Bigger Plan.
We want to be faster, stronger, leaner.
If it were as easy as wishing for it, that would be great.
It would be so very easy.....And everyone would wish for it.
Sadly, due to the amount of ice cream consumed, lean is now going to be a bigger battle than it needed to be. There is now in the region of a stone to shed.
A stone of ice cream. That's quite an achievement (and not something to be proud of)
We could shed more, but that would be excessive and unnecessary.
We don't even need to do it over night.
So long as we are leaner for when we are toeing the start line of Paris Marathon, that'll be OK.
And once we've lost it, lets not do the yo-yo shit that we're so good at.
Can we keep it off for a change? Please?
It will mean saying no to ice cream and biscuits.
I know, I know.
There will be ice cream occasionally.
Just not every day (sorry).
There will be lie ins too.
Again, just not every day
You remember how you felt on race day, right?
You remember how you wanted to be faster and stronger over iron distance and half?
You remember how we all wanted the same thing?
Even the Chimp got giddy and wanted in on the action.
We're having this conversation now, so that when the depression hits again, which it invariably will, we can look back at the deal we made when we were healthy.
When the Chimp attacks, we can re-direct it back to this blog.
It is well accepted that we will never be the fastest.
We will never win our AG.
Lets re-phrase that.... It is very unlikely we will ever win our AG.
Never say never n all that.
We may pick the perfect race and those who would beat us might decide to stay at home on that day.
We can be better than we are now.
Wouldn't it be amazing to find out just how fast we can go? How good we could be?
Yes, we're very late starting all this sporting lark, but it doesn't matter.
We can still be the best version of ourselves.
We can still give it our everything.
We can aim for holding specific power on the bike.
We even know the number we want to hold.
We may hit these targets early in the training and increase them.
We can work on being a better runner.
Smoother, more consistent pacing, better physiology.
Stronger core.
We have times that we would like to achieve.
Times that we don't want to say out loud, but the universe has heard them.
They will be course specific.
And realistic.... Ish
(after all, we need to dream big enough for it to frighten us and it has to be worth getting out of bed for)
It would be easy to say we will get up every morning at 6am to get training done.
We all know that this will be a routine battle which will lead to fallings-out and de-motivation.....because, ultimately, we are rubbish at mornings.
Not only are we rubbish at mornings, we are rubbish in Winter, we are rubbish in the dark and we take an age to get out of the door for a run regardless of time of day or season.
We are rubbish at all of these things separately.... so together? We are properly pants.
That is fact.
IT.
WILL.
BE.
A.
BATTLE
We know it will be a huge battle.
And there will be days when we fail.
It will likely be the Chimps fault on the days we fail.
But that doesn't mean we have failed overall.
One bad day, is just that, a bad day.
It only becomes an issue if we wallow in it and allow it to seep into the rest of the week.
We can be consistent with our food.
We can be consistent with our training.
None of this banting business, no silly diets, just consistent meals, reasonable portion sizes, plenty of greenery and rainbow coloured veggies.
Beige food and biscuits will be kept to a minimum. (boooooooo, yes, yes, its rubbish)
Ice cream will be kept to being a treat.
Ice cream will be earned.
Carbs will be used to fuel.
Protein will be used to repair.
We all accept that doing a shorter hill session and swapping sessions round is better than missing one totally.
Body weight sessions may need to be done at home.
Intense turbo sessions may need to be done, rather than long rides.
Life WILL get in the way sometimes.
But we want this.
So, body, apologies and all that.
But we have work to do.
It may be that we aren't in a position to 'compete' in 2016, but we will certainly doing more than completing.
Going long takes effort.
It is not a short race, so it stands to reason that the plan shouldn't be short either.
Its just a shame about the ice cream........
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