Had a nice chat with my son last night about this topic. Turns out we are both training just about as hard as we ever do even though our key races (Oceanside, Roth, Eagleman, Kona, IM Arizona)--and sorry about the back door brag--are either cancelled/postponed or are likely to be.
For me, training my ass off for 3-4 hours a day is a key component of staying partially tethered to reality (or at least what it used to be). I'm doing this even though I've accepted I'm probably not going to race this year.
In the past, I've always needed a set of goals to motivate me to get my (now 62 year old) body out there and do the hard work. I always believed that I needed these goals to be as disciplined as I need to be to be even marginally competitive in this sport (I didn't win the long-course triathlon gene lottery).
That's not the case now for either of us. I did 113 hours in March. I do wonder how long that might be but at this point, it's for the indefinite future, no problem.
Anyone else having this conversation now?
Onward and Upward!
Randy Christofferson(http://www.rcmioga.blogspot.com
Insert Doubt. Erase Hope. Crush Dreams.
For me, training my ass off for 3-4 hours a day is a key component of staying partially tethered to reality (or at least what it used to be). I'm doing this even though I've accepted I'm probably not going to race this year.
In the past, I've always needed a set of goals to motivate me to get my (now 62 year old) body out there and do the hard work. I always believed that I needed these goals to be as disciplined as I need to be to be even marginally competitive in this sport (I didn't win the long-course triathlon gene lottery).
That's not the case now for either of us. I did 113 hours in March. I do wonder how long that might be but at this point, it's for the indefinite future, no problem.
Anyone else having this conversation now?
Onward and Upward!
Randy Christofferson(http://www.rcmioga.blogspot.com
Insert Doubt. Erase Hope. Crush Dreams.