Coming soon from Moon Farms
After talking about it every spring for the past ten years, it’s finally happened! Yes, despite our horrible climate and soil to grow anything other than weeds and cactus, we now have a teeny tiny vegetable garden.
I’ve realized I haven’t taken an extended break from training in over 2 years. It was around August of 2006 that I started Marathon/IM Lake Placid training and I have always been training for something (half iron, IM, marathon, etc) non-stop since then. Sure, there have been an ‘easy’ week here and there, but nothing longer than seven or eight days.
It’s about time. With Montgomery fading in the rear view mirror and a month and a half until IM CDA training starts ramping up, I’ve been cutting back. I know intellectually that I’ll benefit long term, but it’s not easy to do. Training becomes habit. It’s a real emotional challenge to go from 20-hour, focused, planned training weeks to 5-6 hours a week of relaxed, spontaneous training. I’m fighting the feeling that I’m slacking too much.
There are some great things to come from time off, no doubt. For instance, ever since I’ve started biking to work, I’ve really begun to enjoy the ‘other’ side of cycling: riding for transportation and riding simply to enjoy the ride. I don’t think I’ll ever stop loving the training and racing side of cycling, but without breaks, I get the ‘hamster on the wheel’ syndrome of going nowhere fast.