ROAD BLOCK!

In May I was training for a 2.5 mile open water swim, my body was in getting into wonderful shape, I had a killer training regiment down, I had a goal.  I accomplished my goal.  Now I am seeing that even though I am doing things, competing in races, taking classes, and doing what I need to I do not have the same drive in my heart that I did back in May.


I coming to the conclusion I need to have circle on the calender to achieve towards, something to aim for.  My new goal, and yes its circled on the calender, is to do the Ironman 70.3 in Providence July 10, 2011.

Now I know I'm going to have other triathlons to do in the process but I have to have a huge goal to attain to.  And this is my huge goal a Half Ironman.  I honestly believe that I will be able to get back into the right frame of mind and condition properly with this goal on my calender.

Oh yeah and this other wonderful things that is an actual bump in my plans..So Godric came home yesterday, I was so excited to have him I couldn't wait to take him out. Samantha dropped by to lend me her Mag Trainer. I sat in my living room and practiced for about 15 min, I decided to take my new toy out for a spin around the neighborhood. I took off just fine, I clipped in great no issues. I became comfortable with how the mechanics of my legs now operated even though it still feels weird. Then things turned to yuck!

Hello Lover! This is my new baby Godric!

I was coming to a stop in front of my house, I had my left foot unclipped just fine, came up one the grass fell to my right (still clipped), I started to fall and I tried to unclip on my way down I fell on right ankle cause it was stuck in my cleat, my ankle popped and I unclipped all the same time. The neighbor was outside and saw it happen, asked if I was ok..it took about 5 minutes for me to get up...my ankle is wicked swollen and tender, I've already done a 10 minute ice massage and I'm elevating it right now. If its still crazy bad tomorrow, I'm going to get it looked at, I need to make sure there is no ligament or tendon damage. I can't believe I put myself into such bad situation 1) I came up on my drive way 2) only had one cleat out 3) I was trying to avoid the truck 4)I went into wet grass on slicks ...it was just bad all around.

Borrowing this idea

So many things come to mind when this question is presented: run a 5K, 10K, half and full marathon, compete in a Half and Full Ironman, be the best yogi I can possibly be, finish my degree, and so many other things.  But for this specific post: a 30 day yoga and meditation challenge.

My very best and yogi mentor Samantha was telling me about a 30 day yoga challenge she was taking part it.  She only has to do at least 10 minutes of yoga a day.  So this got me thinking why can't I do so something like this, why do I need to wait to be invited by someone before I need a challenge like this.

Now where I am stating my claim to the world, well at least the blogging world, my commitment to do 30 days of yoga in conjunction with 30 days of meditation.  I can understand how some may think that these two are one in the same but to me they are not, to me yoga is yoga.  It is the deep stretching that my body needs to maintain a healthy balance between my cardio, weights, swimming and biking.  Yoga will help keep me balanced, limbered, and less prone to the injuries that I am currently having because my muscles, tendons, and ligaments are so tight.

(this is not me)

30 day of meditation, I will be using this to help center my soul and my person.  This is going to help me become a better person, just by taking 10 minutes out of each day to spend this time to re-center my person.  I think this is going to be my favorite part of my day.  I really am already looking forward to going to the sea side, reflecting on my day, feeling the sun on my face as it sets, and listening to waves crash below me.  Its already so relaxing just talking about.  Now off to plan tomorrow's day and relax the rest of my night.  So with this I will say good bye: shanti shanti shanit