Ironman Kentucky Training- Month 6 of 8

[Tri Girl]

Yay, KSH! I'm so proud of you. Even tho the training volume was less than May, I'll bet you're doing more quality mileage than before and really hunkering down and focusing on the race.
And yeah, IM is the ultimate mind @*. One minute happy and confident, one minute, terrified and insecure. I equated my 9 months of IM training to being pregnant. The whole time training I was getting ready for race day; preparing my things, getting it all laid in place. And then race day came and was awesome, amazing, and unbelievable. Then I suffered from major post pardem (sp?) depression afterward. For about 6 months I was lost and didn't know what to do. After I'd done the ultimate, I had nothing to look forward to; nothing to work towards. For the first time in my life I think I was actually a little depressed (but I'd talked to other IM finishers in my tri club and most had the same sorts of feelings lasting various amounts of time). You can't devote every waking moment of your life to one thing then not feel a little sad when it's all over. What was NOT like being pregnant was that after the race I didn't lose sleep at night (gained a lot in fact), and I didn't have to be responsible for another little person (a good thing indeed).

You keep going. You're going to not only finish, but finish in plenty of time and cross that line STRONG, PROUD, and COURAGEOUS!!!!



now please let some of your iron energy rub off on me since I really haven't been one teensy tiny little bit motivated to train for my race~ not even a hint of motivation

[alpinerabbit]

BEST BEST BEST of luck for month 7, 8 and your big day!!