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Coaches Corner
January and the whole standard resolution revolution is almost an obsolete concept for triathletes or endurance athletes. Most reasons for this surround the truth that we generally renew our constitutions with goals and convictions pretty much year round. A new challenging race. Challenging our times in an old race.
In other words…we are already the embodiment of annual renewal.
So what makes us such admirable goal crushing machines? What distinguishes the seasonally end over end THRIVING human, from the average flailing New Year habitual homosapien? What is worth singling out as a positive tendency worth nurturing? Is it the choosing of the ideal goal itself? Or is it the recognition of another G-word?…
The GLUE!
Yes, the glue or Ground level support holding the goals together with real life. Who was consistently there? What was a given background practice beneath the main stage performance?
It’s worth a thought when considering future goals spanning the New Years to New Race spectrum. Consider your own glue, and your own route toward thriving through a few of these examples. Some examples include, though are never limited to the following:
Family recognition- race support, moral support, support still when you’re an a***h**e, patience with you, understanding of you, and sacrifice for you.
Self care/love- massage, body work, meditation, breathing, moments taken just to be aware of the disposition of you and only you and therefore how well you can operate with others.
Rest- the temperamental ingredient which if adequate will make all possible, while if deficient will make all feel as though they’re trying to change the rotation of the earth.
Nutrition- not just a means for avoiding hangry tendencies, but a means not to jack yourself up for life metabolically mid season.
Fun- the Time Machine back to what training originally represented/felt like.
The long view- perspective on care for our bodies alongside care for our sanity as the cumulative training byproducts continue to stack. What’s important. Why. What’s it worth.
…these are some considerations worth annual review for the sake of thriving.
~ Coach Nancy
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