The last few weeks I've been feeling a bit sluggish and weak. I have had some issues with abdominal activation and tight ankles and I keep promising myself that I'll throw something into my training programme to work these minor issues out but somehow, I just haven't felt like I've had the time. I'm trying to start up my business and train for all the competitions as well as a million other things in my personal life and the net result is nothing getting done really. I was in great form for York but Cork was the one I've been planning for longer and I spent all last week dreading it to the point where I was losing sleep. Stupid really as there's no one holding a gun to my head; I'm doing this for the fun of it. I'm not normally a negative person so I decided something had to be done.
So I took the weekend off life and went out West for some
wandering around in fields and forests and a bit of fishing. This was
exactly what I needed. All of a sudden, when I didn't have to do anything, I wanted to do everything. I took out my notebook and made lists of all the things I needed to do and how I planned to go about them. I'm back in Dublin 3 days now and I've already put at least half the plans into action and I know how I'm going to go about the rest of them.
Training is still feeling pretty hard but I'll be tapering next week so I'm confident that I'll feel a bit differently once I'm physically a bit more rested. This is the closest to a competition that I've ever stayed on the doubles programme (volume) and I really don't think it works for me. The reason I'm on the doubles programme now is I've spent most of the last six months preparing for all the competitions and there has just been too many interruptions to training. Cork is in a week and a half, I'm going to give it everything I have and then get back to at least six months of uninterrupted training.
Summary of this post: 1) When you have to much to do and you're not getting it done, go to the woods. 2) Too many competitions are bad. M'kay?
