You have to remind yourself
of the things that are important to your continued happiness and satisfaction
with your lifestyle. So you should decide if you like sports as a little bit
more than a hobby or just a necessary evil that you feel obliged to keep in
your life for your health sake. You have to place it in the right place in your
life programme. If you only exercise just to stay at the same dress size then
it’s probably your diet that you should be watching with a couple of classes.
If you just like the social life of going to the gym, then that is up to you to be thinking about how deeply you
want to go into that scene and think about the best time for you do that so
that you find the group whose company you most enjoy.
Richmond Park again
If you have, by whatever set
of circumstances got hooked on a particular sport that you enjoy then you had
best train for it and at whatever level you find suits your own needs. In my
case I find that one of the things that is most convenient, is that my husband
and I are both still committed to the same sport, so much its easier with a
partner. We have enjoyed more than just doing an event now and again but also
as much of the training for it as we can squeeze into our lives without
interfering with our small family business. The sport is a lifestyle that we
don’t want to stop even though we are both getting older, surely the older you
get, the more care you should take of your body not less.
A number of sports now have
age groups to compete in, for those who still like to try to do their best but are
not as fast as they once were. We both still get a great deal of pleasure from
the sporting routine and find that getting out and doing the training early in
the morning, is more satisfying and allows you to have a normal day left to do
your work or whatever else you have to do or find pleasing.
Yesterday we were in the
pool ready to swim at 6.30 am and after that we got on our bikes for a short
ride and were still home and ready to face the trials of the day. This morning
when we woke there was a blue sky and so we got into our bike kit and went out
for another bike ride, twenty six miles, which will do nicely, since we have
the Brighton and Hove Triathlon just a week
away. We have our club swim this evening at 5pm; I will be in the water
training and Steve will be on poolside trying to get everybody to put their
head and heart into the session.
I feel that you need to have
an event on the horizon that you have entered or that you intend to enter; if
there is nothing special that you are looking toward then it makes it a lot
easier to think that it does not matter if you miss this session or that one.
The downward slide is very easy to fall into and a lot harder to climb out of.
In my own experience I find that I have more aches and pains when I have missed
work outs than I do when training regularly. Grasp the nettle; it only stings
for a little while and then gets easier.
First race in 2013 after a break .... Well three breaks actually.... Still hurts a bit!
Coming to the end of the
summer season as we move into early September I have already bought a diary for
2017 and hope that the important races for next summer will soon be published
so that I can start to select the events that will serve my purpose best.
We all have down days or
times when things do not go according to plan. Those are the times when you
have to look at yourself in the mirror and make sure that your can still see a
brightness of spirit within yourself. Just to keep going, you sometimes have to
make a little more effort, make the move to get out and push yourself in a
forward direction, even when it’s the last things you feel like at the time.
Onwards and upwards then to make things better than they are, rather than doing
nothing but gaze into your next beer or glass of wine.
Club Swim training holiday in Lanzarote, Club La Santa.
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