Training and eating

[kacie tri-ing]

One of the things I love about Joe's book is that he emphasizes prioritizing your workouts and learning how to fit it into your schedule, being on the lookout for overtraining and the necessity of prescribed rest. I do think that he overestimates to total number of training hours required to reach a certain goal.

One of my favorite quotes as a coach is the title of one of his sections in the book. "Train like a race horse, think like a bumblebee".

The race horse comment is to illustrate that sticking to a plan and not throwing in extra junk miles is the best way to reach a goal. When a race horse is done it's workout, it doesn't second guess that it's time to stop and rest, it just does.

The bumblebee comment is an analogy for believing in yourself. Apparently, physics cannot readily explain how it is possible for a bumblebee to fly. It just does because it knows it can.

My coach LOVES that quote too :-)