New moon, new bee

January new moon, 2016

Fell behind on posting here, sorting out the new year and setting some limits on where I put my time. And I've been writing in the Chrysalis, not about training, but about this new bee so that took the time from here.

But as of today I opened a training plan and typed in the dates for the Poto race, know known again as McNaughton even though I'll still call it Poto. And I hit the PRINT button on the 2016 book, had to get that done before I lost the discount and before I get distracted with training plans and races.

I've yet to commit to any races, just have some vaporous thoughts -- 50K or 50M at Poto, Halfmax and/or Dusk2Dawn or Alcratraz with TH (all same weekend!), Route 66 triathlon, then a hair brained idea last week about the MT 50M or 100M. All I did was put the t-shirt on....

I'm doing about 30 miles a week right now (no where near what a training plan suggests...) and it feels really good. Haven't been logging on calendar, not watching build or rest intervals, and not doing anything specific except build back some base. I've been hesitant to get on a rigorous schedule until I was sure the R2T100 recovery was complete, and I don't really mean the physical recovery (which is 100% right now for the right leg, left hip still has odd pain) but rather the mental. Looking back that took a great deal out of me. Almost hated running for a while there! So I'm taking it easy, while I joke about a Poto 100 I know it won't happen, heck the 50M might not even be a good idea.

Also as of this weekend I'm 60-some days into an NSNG 100 day challenge and it feels really damned good. Those sugar craves I had last fall in training are completely gone, like a chunk of my mental processing just switched off. Amazing, but what happens when training picks up again? My symptoms are almost zero, maybe the best they've ever been.

Finally I seemed to have turned a corner in my stress load, and I'm wondering how my connection with tjd is playing a role in that. The purple vs yellow definitions, the 2+2=4, the ability to name and see the demons. I'm so calm. I can step back and see what's happening. But that's for the Chrysalis journal.