I'm going from being a 'go out and run/bike' type of person to actually following a plan (80/20 endurance) for my next IM (Cali).
However it's spring and I'm finding that 'chores' are wiping me out, for example I did 3 hours of work clearing some land or 2 weeks before that I had to rebuild 120' of fence (multiple days).
I'm finding life like that (even mowing the grass which takes 1.5 hours) is taking away from what I would think is 'rest'.
So I find that I'm skipping a 1+ hour ride and moving on to the next day. What are other people doing when you have to do non-training stuff and have tasks on the calendar?
I've gotten to the point where I've added a 2nd rest day (Wends and Sat) since Saturday, my scheduled rest day, turns out to be digging holes for trees or other family commitments (how people make Monday a rest day I'll never know).
For what it's worth I'm on the maintenance plan for 3 more weeks and then I start the official IM training plan but I want to be ready.
However it's spring and I'm finding that 'chores' are wiping me out, for example I did 3 hours of work clearing some land or 2 weeks before that I had to rebuild 120' of fence (multiple days).
I'm finding life like that (even mowing the grass which takes 1.5 hours) is taking away from what I would think is 'rest'.
So I find that I'm skipping a 1+ hour ride and moving on to the next day. What are other people doing when you have to do non-training stuff and have tasks on the calendar?
I've gotten to the point where I've added a 2nd rest day (Wends and Sat) since Saturday, my scheduled rest day, turns out to be digging holes for trees or other family commitments (how people make Monday a rest day I'll never know).
For what it's worth I'm on the maintenance plan for 3 more weeks and then I start the official IM training plan but I want to be ready.