How guilty should I feel??
Posted by Ally Bainton on Monday, February 23, 2009
Under: training
Well after that burst of enthusiasm with the first post, I let myself down by waiting two weeks for this, my second post...
In the meantime, I had a few (pre-holiday) crazy days at work, a one week family holiday (brilliant, but did not take my bike and the bikes in the hotel gym were...mmm...basic) and then another few (post-holiday) crazy days at work, intermingled with a weekend on the ski slopes with my kids.
This therefore brings me to a question: how guilty should you feel when you either miss a couple of training sessions due to the sort of commitments above? During the winter, the best time I get to train is in the evening, after the kids are in bed, after my dinner. This, for me, is not optimium training time - that would be not long after I've woken up and, please forgive me, I'm not really an early riser because I know you might say "just get up and on the trainer between 0630 and 0730. I can do that in the spring and summer when it means cycling outdoors but I have some sort of mental block to spin when everyone in the house is still asleep.
Having said all that, when I do get through the first 20 minutes of an evening session, I've broken the back on it and can go for longer and ALWAYS feel great afterwards. So my point is too be strong and just get on with it. I also have my wife telling me "winter miles, summer smiles (which apparently I told her sometime!) - think of climbing those hil ls - do you think lance armstrong skipped training"
Second question of the day: I'm a cyclist, a footballer and runner, so my "average" week consists of cycling, running and playing footbally, usually in the ratio of 40:20:40. How do you mix and match your training for the upcoming cycling season to stay in balance with your other sports? On our holiday, I found that after running for one hour my bones were killing me (and I had new trainers so it wasn't that - I suspect that over Dec and Jan my body has simply got out of the habit of running, so I will be taking it easy on impact training the next week or so.
Please let me know (use comments field) if you have any advice for motivation for these last few weeks of winter and on cross training between different sports.
In the meantime, I had a few (pre-holiday) crazy days at work, a one week family holiday (brilliant, but did not take my bike and the bikes in the hotel gym were...mmm...basic) and then another few (post-holiday) crazy days at work, intermingled with a weekend on the ski slopes with my kids.
This therefore brings me to a question: how guilty should you feel when you either miss a couple of training sessions due to the sort of commitments above? During the winter, the best time I get to train is in the evening, after the kids are in bed, after my dinner. This, for me, is not optimium training time - that would be not long after I've woken up and, please forgive me, I'm not really an early riser because I know you might say "just get up and on the trainer between 0630 and 0730. I can do that in the spring and summer when it means cycling outdoors but I have some sort of mental block to spin when everyone in the house is still asleep.
Having said all that, when I do get through the first 20 minutes of an evening session, I've broken the back on it and can go for longer and ALWAYS feel great afterwards. So my point is too be strong and just get on with it. I also have my wife telling me "winter miles, summer smiles (which apparently I told her sometime!) - think of climbing those hil ls - do you think lance armstrong skipped training"
Second question of the day: I'm a cyclist, a footballer and runner, so my "average" week consists of cycling, running and playing footbally, usually in the ratio of 40:20:40. How do you mix and match your training for the upcoming cycling season to stay in balance with your other sports? On our holiday, I found that after running for one hour my bones were killing me (and I had new trainers so it wasn't that - I suspect that over Dec and Jan my body has simply got out of the habit of running, so I will be taking it easy on impact training the next week or so.
Please let me know (use comments field) if you have any advice for motivation for these last few weeks of winter and on cross training between different sports.
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