New Year, new goals and a new training plan!
As the new year dawns, I get ready to begin the 6 month training cycle heading up to the August 100 mile race in Berlin. A training cycle is journey that includes the physical, the mental and the spiritual aspects. There is a lot of planning, to the day and sometimes to the hour as to what I need to do. Yet, the mental and spiritual side of the training is also dealing with the unknown and the unplanned. There will be days and weeks that won’t go per the spreadsheet. There will be injuries, life events and who knows what else, that will need problem solving.
Endurance is to be ‘planned to the T’ and yet be prepared for it all to go haywire. To have that confidence that I will problem solve whatever that will be thrown at me. And yet, I have to start with the mindset of not missing 1 minute of my planned training. Discipline is a given. Chaos is the catalyst that will take the discipline to the next level.
The 200 day training cycle will being in full earnest on 24th January, 2023.
1136 Miles of training runs, 80 days of weight training, countless hours of recovery and a continuous mental stream of focus on the goal!
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