I wasn't really sure if I should put this in the tri section or running section. I spend most of my time here so hey...

First off I want to say... DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME. For those of you that don't know me well from the site, I have many years of training behind me and a ton of base. For a newbie to venture out on this kind of journey could be disasterous.

Now on to the main idea...

I wanted to share a little philosophy that my tri coach has given me and to share with you a little journey. My coach has started me on an intensive. That means of month of taking a limiting belief about yourself and proving it wrong. Turning it inside out, in such a way that at the other end you are a new person.

My negative/limiting belief is that I am not a great runner. It goes back to the days when I was younger and injured myself when I tried to put in the kind of mileage that other elite runners were doing. Since then I have minimized my mileage and still done reasonably well racing triathlon. But I'm not in the leagues to go to Kona. And I'd like to be.

So here's my intensive. I am to run as often as possible over the next month. That includes doing 2 runs in a day to get the mileage in. I am supposed to try to approximate a 53 miles week. That's 2 marathons. It does not matter how slowly I have to run to do it or how many separate workouts I use to make it happen. I just have to trust that my body can run a lot more than I think it can.

Maybe I'll prove that I can run a lot. Maybe I'll get a minor injury in the process. Either way I'll have answered a question or two about myself and I'll be a smarter competetor in the end.

Last week I logged 26 miles and 5 out of 7 days running outside, one day pool running. So far this week I have run 13 miles in two days but this is my 4th day in a row running outside. So far so good. My lower legs are sore but not enough to stop me from trying again tomorrow. I already feel some barriers crumbling.

This is the thread of my journey.

I'm so excited to see what's going to happen.