It felt so good to rest today. It was a taper day for this Sunday's race and my legs needed it. I can't stress enough how much shuffling I've been doing lately. Even sleeping in compression tights for part of last night didn't help.I was going through my training mileage yesterday and realized I've done 33,019.74 km's or 20,517.51 miles of training since May 2007. To put that in perspective, the circumference of the earth at the equator is 40,075.16 km's or 24,901.55 miles. Which means I'm only 7055.42 km or 4384.04 miles away from swimming, biking and running around the world.
By the end of this year or by early next year at the latest, I will be at the point where I can say I trained enough to travel around the globe in less than 4 years. It hasn't yet sunk in as to what that means and whether it is a far ways or not. It doesn't seem that I've put in that much mileage. After all, it's just been nights and weekends of training.
However, I will say, once I do it, I'm going to have a Training Payne "Earth Day" party.
It was nice having a break today, I had lots of work related stuff to do and spent over 15 hours doing it. It was a work cram-fest. I'm still not caught up, but pried myself away to get my blog updated and give myself a break. Even when I'm supposed to rest, I can't sit still. I'm starting to think I'm very goal driven.
I'm also looking forward to training tomorrow. I find that sitting and working all day in my kitchen is not good for the waistline. I constantly find myself getting up and looking in the fridge and pantry. Or munching when I'm on the phone. It also didn't help when I found the chocolate cigars I got for fathers day and finished off yesterday's left over Chinese food. I felt like a bry-garburator.
Today I realized that hard core training is the most constructive vice I have. When given the choice between, work-aholic, beer-aholic, food-aholic or train-aholic, I'll take train-aholic every time. As a matter of fact, training alone can keep the other three vices simultaneously in balance. It's the best of the four evils.
I've always said about training, "It's hard to feel sorry for yourself, when they're doing something good for yourself".
I can hardly wait for tomorrow. I'm craving sweat.
Taper Day.
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8 comments:
I’m 100% with you on the train-aholic that keeps the others in balance. I always find the moment I rest/taper, I start eating.
Agreed. Training takes away my ice cream cravings...well, for the moment anyway. Haha.
I train so I can eat. If I didn't train, I would be 5 foot 2 and 200lb pounds. Not a pretty thought!
What site do you use to track your training? I keep jumping around, can't decide?
Around the world, that is impressive but I still say your beer intake is MORE impressive.
Dude... that is fricking insane distance... like seriously, you have gone around the world by your own personal motor?! Bragging rights are in order my friend!
As for your wisdom on train-aholics... agree 100%.
That is what makes me sane and keeps me organized and able to get work done at work. It is my balance in life and without it I am a mess, which is why when I am not training I get fat again, happens every time.
I am hoping I am on this kick for good and keep up the serious work here. Getting good volume in and have never felt better than I do right now!
yep! it does help keep things in balance! and making it around the world doing it is not a bad accomplishment! awesome statistics!
Oh man, sitting around the house and eating, the worst form of slow death!
J, glad to hear I'm not alone. haha.
L, Ice Cream? now you got me tempted. haha
C, haha, I hear you.
A, I use Map My Run. Great site. If you go to the side of my blog you'll see training log and it will take you to the site. www.mapmyrun.com. Funny, I think you're right the beer is more impressive. haha.
M, thanks, not yet, but there will be a party by January. I hope you're on the lifelong kick too. I can feel you are. Being fat SUCKS. Like you, I never plan on going back there again.
J, Thanks bro.
K, no, I wouldn't say sitting around the house and eating is a slow death, it could be worse. The worst would be sitting around the house with a nagging wife. THAT would be a slow death. haha.
B
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