Starting Over

Well the past year has been a bit of a bust, as far as paddling and running is concerned. After getting back from Australia, and suffering from "I don't want to paddle in the cold any more", I managed to little or no training what so ever.

On top of that, I managed to be "un-gainfully employed", which did not help my lack of enthusiasm.

During the past year I managed to do exactly one running race and one paddle race. (Hey at least I was consistent. lol)

Now things have started to come around, and I am looking forward to start training again for next year. I have "spruced" up my blog a little and I am coming up with a list of races I want to go in next year.

Since I am basically starting from scratch, I am going back to my previous training logs, to see what worked and what did not. What can I say, if you don't look at previous logs, then they are basically useless. Well maybe not useless.

So it is time to start on basic endurance training first. This will be a long process of running, weights, and yes paddling. I am also going to start blogging about my progress, as I work myself back into shape.

Readership Expanding

When I started this blog on January 2nd, 2008, I thought this was a good way of keeping a training log for my lead up to the World Masters Games in 2009, and to promote kayak racing in general.

Since then it has been read in 73 countries and over 2,000 unique visitors as per google. This is cool, and I hope some of my training will help others in their goals as well. As well as my failures. (learn from my mistakes)

Thanks for reading.

Darrell

Another Day, Another Run

Today was the first run of the week, and it was a good one. Same distance, just a little quicker. I can feel the motivation for running is beginning to return.

This is good because running is the fastest way to get in shape that I know of. It is like the most bang for the buck, sort of thing. I am going to try to do three runs a week to start with and maybe down the road increase it to five per week, depending on my lack of time.

My main goal with the running is build up my endurance again, but doing it injury free.
If I stick with a gradual build up, I think it is doable.

Motivation Levels Really Low

My motivation levels have gone south this past week or so. I have way too many red spots in my training log. Technically there should only be one, a rest day, but lately this has not been the case.

This means it is the time to review my training and change things up a bit, to make it more interesting.