Road to IRONMAN

OK so I have decided to create a blog to document my LONG road to the St. George IRONMAN!! I know that a lot of people think I am crazy and they doubt that I can do it. That is partly the reason that...up to this point...I have been writing all of my experiences, training, thoughts and emotions in a journal. However, I thought it might be more meaningful if I can add pictures and video with my journaling so I created this blog. I know that writing my thoughts and training in a blog is opening myself up to criticism but I don't care! I have really been working on positive thinking and not allowing all of the negativity around me affect my thoughts or my training. It has been hard...really hard. But a quote that I keep repeating in my mind is "Nothing compares to reaching the goals that others said were out of your reach." But the really inspiring thing for me is... that I have already reached some goals that 3 months ago, I thought were out of my reach.

I have learned a lot in the 2 months of Ironman training that I have been doing. I have been getting a training plan from Aaron Ogden, a trainer at the Sports Mall. He is really knowledgeable and has really helped me both with my training and my nutrition. When I first started my Ironman training, he had me up the volume that I was doing, meaning I swam more meters, and ran and biked more miles. It had a negative affect on my tummy, I found myself really sick after every long workout. Aaron suggested cutting wheat out of my diet and that has made a HUGE difference! I feel SO much better while I am working out and after! In my training right now, I am still doing higher volume and low intensity. Every week my workouts feel a bit easier and it gives me confidence when I can feel my body responding in a positive way to the torture I am putting it through! I am swimming, biking and running each 3x's a week. Different distances each day, I train 6 days a week, if I have a day where I have a hard time getting my workout in, I am almost in a panic, it's pretty funny. I am addicted to training, I am LOVING this!