Life Lately

Basically how I feel right now

I feel like I've lost a bit of mojo since Ragnar. Not sure if it's general weariness or the continuation of my seemingly endless digestion issues, but I am just not having it right now.  Almost a year to the day, I wrote a very similar post about marathon training. You get to a point where double workouts don't feel nearly as bad ass anymore and just feel like ass. I'm confident this will pass and I'll start getting more into it soon, but it's rough when my entire life is train, work, train, blog, sleep. This is what I chose, though, and this too shall pass



I'm counting on this weekend to recharge my batteries. On Saturday, all of our work for the Run for Boston 5K will come to fruition: it's race day! We were slated to finish stuffing packets tonight, but the storm of the century is rolling right in. We have just a few last-minute touches and preparations to make, and then we're on to show what we're made of.

Before a 40-mile ride on the trainer

Then on Sunday, I'm tackling the Iron Girl Lake Zurich sprint triathlon (you can still save $10 using discount code KELLYTHECULINARIAN). I'm super excited for my first tri of the season! I need to get all my gear out and prepped, as well as do a once over for my bike to make sure everything is tip top shape.

I've made the strategic decision to not wearing my clipless pedal shoes for the race.  For a sprint, I think I'll lose more time changing shoes that what I'll gain with the pedals. I wore regular shoes for the Leaning Tower Tri and that turned out pretty awesome. I'll skip the wetsuit for the same reason and leave those for the Olympic-distance tri I'm tackling at the end of the month.

Until then, this storm is the perfect excuse to take the evening off from training and spend time chilling. I may even have a cocktail. Here's to getting my mojo back.