I have to say, its been weird so far. I mean, I am either a runner, or a cyclist or a swimmer. Never been three at once before and when told I had to cut my cycling down to two sessions per week and focus on my weakest discipline (running) in readiness for sticking them altogether for triathlon I was like, WHAT?? How will I survive? How will I cope? I'm going to get crap at it (again)! I'm going to have to start over!
The first step was learning to have complete faith in JB. She's more than qualified to steer me and hey, I could have said no at the start. It was hard to let go. I'm Miss Independant. Ask N. Its my most annoying trait. To give control to someone else, control over the things I enjoy - the things that make my life fun - and trust them to keep it fun, trust them to get you to where you want to go? I mean, I did it but not unquestioningly. I did not have complete Faith.
You have someone sat in front of you telling you to go against everything you've done so far. Reduce your activity time here, add this exercise there, reduce pace here, increase there, try this, get up at 5am and do this and after this, do that, stick to the plan and stretch girl, stretch! I cheated once, desperate for that naughty but delicious combination of pride and fatigue after a long, hilly, hard ride and and so cycled more miles than I was told to that day (but no more a distance than I regularly used to do) and got a sore knee. I got cocky once and thought I was ready to move up a notch in the running and in retrospect I now see why she sent me to see JD (another guiding light). JD chewed me up and spat me out...
So I trusted JB. It was slightly less painful than not to.
Today I saw that you can, if you have Faith and guidance in, and from, someone who knows what-the-hell-they're-on-about, maintain and infact improve on your performance in one particular area even whilst doing less. Today I did something I never, in a million years, thought I'd ever manage to do. It was for the superstars, it was for the really skinny ones [who ignored me as they zoomed past me on my solo bit of The Gurls Sunday Ride last week by the way]. I'm not going to say what it is because I'm not going to make you sit and listen to my gasconade and anyway, I'm ridiculously superstitious and with the start of the next Series just a few weeks away, I need all the luck I can get but I really wanted to blog on the subject of Faith.
Its amazing.
