Admission: Training, Dicipline, and Motivation

Posted on April 19, 2007

admission - A statement tending to establish the guilt or liability of the person making the statement. 
 

Ok, so I have an admission.  For me, the hardest part about training is staying motivated and disciplined.  What I mean is that for me, the hardest part of training is making sure I set aside an appropriate and an appropriate amount of time, and to get my ass out there onto the roads.  I think this in some part because I seem to always end up training  by myself, which can sometimes mean skating or riding sections of >20km into serious headwinds with no relief, and all things that go along with training solo.  Sometimes it sucks.  I think this speaks to the attitudes of other skaters, and the Canadian community as a whole.  I think that often skaters become more concerned about concealing a lot their training from other skaters in order to create some sort of an advantage (or something like that) rather than actually really improving.  Maybe this is why Canadian skaters have developed an alarmingly negative reputation in the real international skating community…  that, and making fools of themselves outside the competition  (socially).  This is something I was disappointed that I had to deal with in confirming a spot on a WIC team.  You see once I’m out there, I can train as well as anyone.  I actually really enjoy it.  Even the times when it is complete misery and suffering.  I think that something that might help me is to post some of my workouts with some amount of regularity.  To this end, here are the stats from my ride today: 
 

4/19/07:
Ride time: 2:47:45
Avg. HR: 163bpm
Max HR: 185bpm
HR Zone (135-170)
      Time in zone: 2:24.39
                 above: 21.43
                 below: 1.23
Kcal: 2395
Distance: 84.5km
Avg. Speed: 30.2km/hr
Max Speed: 63.7km/hr
Avg. Cadence: 86rpm
Max Cadence: 116rpm
 

This might not look too special, but with the wind, terrain, and the fact that I was solo, I was really happy to average over 30km/hr…
 

Anyway, I am skating later tonight with Doucet, which is always interesting.  I might do a light skate before that too with some younger skaters, but I’ll have to see what happens before then.
 

I’ll leave it at that, but I do have an easier ride that I did earlier this month:
4/02/07:
Ride time: 3:01;49
Avg. HR: 155bpm
Max HR: 181bpm
HR Zone (135-170)
      Time in zone: 2:44.10
                 above: 9.19
                 below: 8.20
Kcal: 2391
Distance: 82.4km
Avg. Speed: 27.2km/hr
Max Speed: 63.2km/hr
Avg. Cadence: 79rpm
Max Cadence: 102rpm
 

Hope you enjoyed,
if you ever feel inspired, shoot me an email and ask me if I’m still training hard.  You, know kick my ass a little.
-Aaron.

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