Ever go to the gym with all the best intentions in the world to have a great session, do your training as per your plan and then once you go to start, it just fails miserably!????
Well today I experienced just that. I cannot even begin to understand it to be honest and for me this is the first time I have simply just thrown in the towel and walked to the showers.
Those who know me and/or follow this blog or my Facebook page/Twitter feed will know that I am very positive person, I just get on with it.
I headed to the gym earlier than usual which is fine, got into my kit etc and headed for my trusty steed - the stand alone spin bike located on the gym floor. To my surprise when I got there, someone was actually on it. I asked him nicely how long he had left of his session on it, to which he replied about 10 mins. I thought cool, I'll go start my session and do the warm up on those other bike machines and when I am done, he will be done and all will be right in the world again. That plan went accordingly, I completed my warm up and headed over to the spin bike which was now free. Set it up as I always do to ensure the position was good and then set out to do the remaining 50 minutes of my session with good intent.
As I proceeded to the slightly difficult section of my training session, I noticed that I was sweating loads, increased the tension to assist with raising my heartrate and continue to pedal. Now this is where it all started to fall apart. I was pedalling at around the 80+rpm and profusely sweating etc and I started to notice that my heart rate was not moving in on my garmin and as I was completing a specified heart rate training session, this was cruical to be moving in the right direction. I adjusted the HR strap to ensure it was picking my HR correctly and I increased the tension a bit more. The sweat as this point is streaming down my face with drops hitting the floor, and yet the heartrate was not moving anymore than 135bpm. This was starting to mentally break me as I was pushing harder than I normally would for this session. I decided that something had to be wrong with my HR strap or the bike or something and before I knew it I had paused the Garmin, got off the spin bike really annoyed and called it a day.
The whole time i was in the shower to returning to the office all I kept thinking was that was the worst effing session I have ever experienced. I hope to never have anymore of those. Of course I then tweeted and facebooked about it, cause that is what I do. I guess I was looking for some support from my triathlon community that hey we have all experienced a session like that before. Thankfully they had. I just needed to vent, get it out of my head and now that I had, I am over it.
Since November last year, I have been consistent with my training, yes I have missed a session here and there but I have 98% of the time completed all that has been planned for me, lost 12 kilos and now had one bad session.
Just another day in the life of a first timer on her way to an Ironman!
I've picked myself up and my next session I will absolutely nail it. There are times when you simply just have to chalk it up and live to see another day!
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Smooches
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