- I have those days, just like many other triathletes.
I used to be a total bitch.
Just the thought.
I've struggled with this right from day one.
I still struggle with.
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Good morning, trainiacs.
You may notice that I'm not at Pan Am pool today.
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No, no, unfortunately not.
It's closed for the Canada Games for I don't know how long.
One time there they painted a wall,
closed down the pool for six weeks.
I'm not kidding.
However, I'm not totally upset to be
in this little splash pool because yesterday
I was feeling like a bit of a triathlon turd,
not Triathlon Taren, yeah.
I have those days, just like many other triathletes.
For instance getting into the pool
is an internal Law and Order court proceeding for me,
every single day.
I bet the pool is cold, I don't want to swim.
Oh my god, it is cold.
I feel a little sick.
Should I be working out?
Oh wait, is it a rest day?
It's probably a rest day.
I think it's a rest day.
I should take it easy today.
Yep, that's right, every single time in the pool.
It's only through the magic of editing
that I make myself look tough all the time,
and I've got an agreement with Mel at the office
that if she leaves sucky faces of me in the vlog,
she's fired, done.
Oh and I also find any excuse I possibly can
to get out of the pool as quickly as I can.
Yeah, 37 kilometer marathon swimming Triathlon Taren
doesn't like swimming more than 3,000 meters
in a single set.
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Just ask Pat, he'll confirm.
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Now I'm also not the best at following
perfectly understandable pool rules.
No.
I'll be damned if I let somebody tell me
how clean I need to be.
Now another thing that I'm very guilty
of being very bad at is going out
at a respectable pace on the run.
Hmm, yeah.
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I am well known for running up there like a jackass.
Look at this.
This is my run from the last half Iron Man that I did.
That's my pace at start, that's how slow my pace
was at the end.
Does that look like a well paced easy run
going out at the start?
No, no it doesn't.
4.13, 4.26, 4.27, 4.32, all systems go,
38, 31, 43, 49, 55, 5.03, 4.55, 5.01,
5.07, 5.15, 5.18, 5.15, 5.24, 5.34, 33, 42,
and then Tarence done and dead.
Well planned buddy, well planned.
And you know what?
While it might look like I'm a big hard hero
and have been commuting by bike my entire life,
nu uh, no, that ain't the case.
I used to be a total bitch.
Just the thought of even getting on,
not even a commuter bike, triathlon bike,
road bike, all bikes.
Yeah that's right.
I didn't go out if it was raining,
or below plus 10 or above 25, or if it was too windy,
or if my favorite bib shorts were dirty,
or if my friends weren't going out and riding.
Like why would I go by myself?
Like because nobody would even see me.
Or if my bike hadn't been clean in a while,
or, or, or, or, or.
Yeah, the 12 hours that I bike per week right now,
that was down to about, hmm, one.
Back in the day, I was not a good biker back then.
Zero time in the saddle.
Next thing I am still to this day
a solid triathlon turd about is nutrition.
Unless I have my jersey pockets full of gel,
bar, Hyper Hydrator, electrolytes, scratch,
Rescue Hydration scratch, I ain't going out.
Nope, nope, which is a little bit ridiculous,
especially when I'm going out with fellows like Pat,
who will have a banana for a six hour ride,
and there I am with a buffet on my back,
but hey, you know what, a guy's got to eat,
a guy's got to eat.
Might be a little excessive, though.
And then the final thing that I am
a total triathlon turd about that I, I pee.
That I struggle with is overeating.
Just got home from the office,
quiet on set,
and most days I struggle not to eat this entire drawer.
Veggie straws, cereal, crackers, bark, chips,
more chips, oatmeal, trail mix, peanut butter.
Peanut butter.
Yeah, all this stuff, my kryptonite, big time,
big, big, big time.
Now all of this is to say a couple of things.
Number one, a lot of triathletes struggle with this.
Me, pros, age groupers.
I'm human, you're human, pros are human.
I've struggled with this right from day one.
I still struggle with overeating,
not wanting to go out, not wanting to train in the rain,
feeling like I'm reliant on sugar,
not wanting to swim, not wanting to get up,
on and on and on.
I have the same struggles that all triathletes do.
Granted I've been at this for now nine or 10 years
and it's a little bit easier to get over
a lot of these struggles and bad habits,
and I think that how I ended up getting over them
is that I just started doing the good habits
and forcing myself to do them for three weeks,
four weeks, maybe a month, that's the same thing,
until it became habit, like commuting by bike.
I remember the first six weeks that I commuted by bike,
I was shattered, I had no energy because it was new,
it was a struggle, it wasn't part of my routine.
I hadn't worked out the logistics, I hated it.
Now it's just what I do,
and the times that I have to drive to work,
completely awful.
So if there are things that you're struggling with
in triathlon, you don't have to be awesome at everything
year one, year two.
You can gradually work into it.
With that said, try to recognize the things
that you might be doing that could be a bad habit
and think about what would be a better habit
and just pick that one better habit,
check it off the list, and be a little bit better at that.
And keep pushing through those first few weeks or months,
but it's a little bit of a pain in the ass,
and eventually that good habit that you know you want
to adopt is going to become habit.
It will be normal, and then you too can have
a Speedo dancing YouTube channel.
Huh?
Speedos for everyone.
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