{"id":486,"date":"2017-03-17T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2017-03-17T19:45:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T19:45:24","slug":"national-beatings-week-1-313-319","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/17\/national-beatings-week-1-313-319\/","title":{"rendered":"National Beatings – Week 1 (3\/13 – 3\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[I do not know who this is – just best Nationals Finish line picture I could find]<\/p>\n

As I look at Dionne sitting on the char and purring contently, I thought it was apt to provide an ASPCA type disclaimer. \u201cNo Triathletes were harmed during the creation of this blog\u201d. (Although that doesn\u2019t necessarily apply to the underlying events\u2026)<\/p>\n

When I saw that the Nationals Qualifying season had been compressed, I knew that there was going to be a lot of hard work ahead. And then I lost two weeks of training time due to some absurd work-related stuff. Definitely not the best time to have that happen.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t control everything that happens in life. All you can do is adapt, adjust and then get back on the horse. Good practice in normal; a bit harder when there are several ticking clocks. So I accepted that the next 75 days would be utter hell, with the payoff being a spot at the grownups table.<\/p>\n

Things started in earnest on Monday with a mile in the pool followed by time on the bike. The swim was a bit of a challenge because I was having to share a lane. It\u2019s hard for me to see the lane lines on the bottom of the pool in general, and an even bigger challenge to make sure that I stayed on my half of the lane. But it worked out \u2013 albeit that my hands hurt afterwards from so many lane line strikes.<\/p>\n

Tuesday was the \u2018off\u2019 day of the week with just a short bike workout. Given what happened on Wednesday, that was probably a good plan.<\/p>\n

Wednesday was an extremely hard pool workout. As I\u2019ve said in the past, bilateral breathing is not my friend. But it helps on so many different levels, so that was a big chunk of the workout. I was so beat afterwards that I was having trouble holding thoughts as I was talking with my coach.<\/p>\n

Yesterday was a walk to the gym, a hard bike workout and then time on the treadmill. The machines there are the newer models that use touchscreens for most everything. I had planned to run first and then bike, but couldn\u2019t get the treadmill to work. I even tried the Pebble but couldn\u2019t figure it out. I finally did after time on the bike though, and while I wanted to keep going tapped out early for safety reasons. When I couldn\u2019t keep up with the treadmill at an easy jog since my legs were so tired, it seemed time to go.<\/p>\n

Tonight will be a walk, long run and short swim. Tomorrow will most likely be run\/strength and then Sunday is an indorr Triathlon plus another strength workout.<\/p>\n

I realize that my body will not be happy with me at many times during the next 70+ days. But unless something is seriously wrong, it just needs to STFU and keep with the program. I do not intend to be sitting at the kids table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[I do not know who this is – just best Nationals Finish line picture I could find] As I look at Dionne sitting on the char and purring contently, I thought it was apt to provide an ASPCA type disclaimer. \u201cNo Triathletes were harmed during the creation of this blog\u201d. (Although that doesn\u2019t necessarily apply … Continue reading National Beatings – Week 1 (3\/13 – 3\/19)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,275,276,229],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","tag-james-gilliard","tag-nationals","tag-nationals-beatings","tag-pt-nationals"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}