The longer road to Ironman

After IMC, things went bad in a hurry. I didn't understand it for a while but I fell into a depression and managed to add like 40 pounds in 6 months (didn't know that was possible). Since then I have taken off about 30 of the pounds and improved my diet significantly, gotten married, and started work on my certification as a personal trainer.

What I have not done is train. I haven't been in the water since Canada and have logged maybe 200 miles on the bike and 20 miles of running (which amounts to nothing over 2 years).

There were lots of false starts on training but there were always distractions (and by distractions I mean excuses) that kept me from following through. That is very confusing to me because I actually like training (well, not swimming but the rest) and can't figure out why I can't get any traction. i think my problem is the scope. I am so used to thinking like someone training for Ironman that I can't seem to get comfortable with a schedule of 3 hours a week of training (which is where I should be starting after all of this time off).

Anyway, this blog is now going to be my honest sounding board for how I am doing and how i am feeling. When I cheat on my nutrition plan then it will be here and when I bail on my training plan then I confess it here. My wife says that I need to be less hard on myself and give myself more room for misses (and she is smarter then me and has a PhD is Psych) but I feel that knowing that I have to write down my misses will help me to stay true to my gaols. If that doesn't work then I will revisit the plan later but lets see how it goes.