Adaptation
The peas knees!
The best laid plans can and often do go astray, but that doesn’t mean goals need to be thrown out the window.
I’ve been dealing with a few aches and pains. Plantar Fascia issues that have kept my running mileage terribly low (almost non-existent) since Copper Canyon, and recently a knee strain that has kept me off the bike for the better part of a week. It hurts pretty bad to walk down stairs, but walking flat ground or up stairs is almost pain free (just a little uncomfortable).
With Ironman under 8 weeks out, this is not the time to be backing off training, but a broken body doesn’t race well either. As a compromise, I’ve been swimming up a storm and even hit the elliptical machine (I avoid normally avoid “fitness equipment” like the plague) since it is one thing I can do pretty much pain-free.
I think the trick to achieving any kind of goal is being willing to adapt along the way to what life throws at you. That’s the spirit of what I’m doing right now. Keeping my overall fitness up any way I can, and getting my body back down to a healthier racing weight (about 8 pounds under where I am right now).
[...] issue with my knee (medial knee strain) has me changing my bike position and equipment. Turns out my road bike and [...]
Change Your Approach « Set Higher Standards by YogiRavi
May 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Listen Ravi I am not too surprised as the Copper Canyon looks violent!
Good luck for your IRONMAN in six weeks anyway!
Caroline
May 14, 2011 at 7:58 am