I actually was away from pretty much anything that looked like training for 2 or 3 years after doing 6 IM's in 4 years. I didn't recognize it at the time but I really missed it.
I have been doing IM's every other year since I came back. I only did a marathon the first year I started training again in 2010. The first off year in 2012 I meant to do short course stuff, which I actually do much better at, but that just didn't hold my interest. I didn't do any real training and bagged all my races, just going around the course at less than what I knew I could do would have been a waste. This year I picked a late season marathon and didn't do any tris. I rode in the early season but haven't been in the water since I got out of Tempe Town Lake last November.
I'll be going down to volunteer and sign up for next year at IMFL. For me, getting through feeling burned out is a matter of thinking about why I like doing this in the first place. I'm never going to KQ, a couple of my IM's are non-WTC so chances are low I'll ever get in on the legacy program. But doing IM's amuses me. It still amazes me that people can actually do that.
Don't keep forcing yourself to train and race if it isn't flipping your switch. If all you've ever done is tri's, go do a marathon or three. Take on other challenges, do a century ride with your family, create your own event by riding from here to somewhere way the fuck over there, try to set a 5k pr. Maybe even, gasp, lift and try to look good naked. Just be like a kid and go play, do what sounds fun.
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.
I have been doing IM's every other year since I came back. I only did a marathon the first year I started training again in 2010. The first off year in 2012 I meant to do short course stuff, which I actually do much better at, but that just didn't hold my interest. I didn't do any real training and bagged all my races, just going around the course at less than what I knew I could do would have been a waste. This year I picked a late season marathon and didn't do any tris. I rode in the early season but haven't been in the water since I got out of Tempe Town Lake last November.
I'll be going down to volunteer and sign up for next year at IMFL. For me, getting through feeling burned out is a matter of thinking about why I like doing this in the first place. I'm never going to KQ, a couple of my IM's are non-WTC so chances are low I'll ever get in on the legacy program. But doing IM's amuses me. It still amazes me that people can actually do that.
Don't keep forcing yourself to train and race if it isn't flipping your switch. If all you've ever done is tri's, go do a marathon or three. Take on other challenges, do a century ride with your family, create your own event by riding from here to somewhere way the fuck over there, try to set a 5k pr. Maybe even, gasp, lift and try to look good naked. Just be like a kid and go play, do what sounds fun.
I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.