This road leads to Kona

Back to yoga classes, at least planning to... My swimming teacher advised me to get back to yoga, meditation and mind "building" . I'm still having trouble with swimming practice, and this lead to frustration... it doesn't matter if I'm one of the best female runners at the gin, if my bike is strong and that I can stand the long rides even without trainning, my poor swimming alwways let me down and compromises my all trainning schedule and my plans. I tought I was stronger, but I must admit that I have a problem and follow a plan to overcome it.
Meanwhile I'm trying new sports, besides the X Terra (that's on my 2006 plans) I'm willing to try windsurfing and I'm scheduled for my first real class on sunday after a 10k run I've enlisted early this yr...

My search for the perfect bike is still on slow mode, I'm really worried with work issues and haven't got much time for it (actually as I use to say: lack of time is the excuse of the loosers, so I must say that I didn't find my perfect bike yet because I didn't focused on it). Advices welcome!


PS. this weekend I read "The 5 persons you meet in heaven", but I didn't like it very much.

Recently a friend of mine broke his left foot and as a triathlete he is suffering a lot- specially because he just doesn't know what to do with himself. I met him yesterday and I must say that it was touch to see him that way - he is fine, but u know, it's awful when something happens to someone you love. His accident just made me wonder about the life of a "sportsman". About 1 week ago I reassessed and redesigned my shedule in order to fit more non athletics activities on my daily schedule - with this I mean an extra time for reading, thinking, studying and seeking of "innovation" (I'm very concerned about my company and industry developments and I truly believe that we must search a breakthrough and that this is not a matter of waiting for inspiration). Thisweek I read Ozzie's from Microsoft manifesto and my feeling was: that's what we need in my company: a vision of the future!
Let's get back to sports.
In the middle of this life "evaluation" I could feel how trainning is important, how it can help you to be disciplined and goal oriented, but I also saw how we must avoid the trap of not pursuing ambitions beyond spports, forgeting the life around us - and getting depressed when life prevent us of racing and trainning for a while.

Maybe this is why I keep talking about books, about the companies that I admire... just maybe...

My friend? he's gonna be alright.. meanwhile he is planning to learn chess.

This is the first official week of my new IM schedule... now I'm already 7 months to go - it seems a lot of time, but believe it or not I'm late.
Monday was off, so I decided to take some weight liftings, as you should know I lack force on my upper body and this means poor swimming. I'm suffering a lot and got worried finding out that I'm losing range of mottion.. I'm even trying some stretching classes.. in a few days I can tell if this is working.
Yesterday was tough and I had what I call a winning of mind over body.. and my mind was playing tricks with me... I was really sad due a personal loss and could barely swim... after swimming I was sheduled for 90 minutes bike... I decided to do it in a bike class (it was late, cold and dark to go outdoors) and after 50 minutes, between one class and another I left my bike to fill by bottle of water and when I was back my polar watch was gone... it was so annoying and deceiptful... I mean, it took less than 5 minutes, I wasn't 10m away and I believed that I was among "equals" and someone just took my watch.. I wanted to call the police, but the gin administrator didn't let me... I calmed down (I didn't loose my mind, but it was the wrong day for it) and realized that there was nothing I could do... but when the manager said that I would violate other people's right by calling the police, I just asked her back: what about my rights, the right of keeping something that belongs to me and that I didn't forget, but just let for a couple of minutes while drinking water... there was no answer...

Sad but true..


PS. making good advancements on Winning.. and could barely sleep this night...

Yesterday was a holyday so I had plenty of time for trainning... but I didn't. In the morning I must confess that I was a bit lazy, but as the day went on I just wanted to take care of my reading backlog (almost finishing The 8th Habit) and hang on with Frederico. Guess it was a wise decision since we had a great time together... Met a couple of friends and talked about life in general.. sometimes you don't need more trainning, you need just life enjoyment. Late in the afternoon I went running - u know I'm enlisted for a few races 'til the end of the yr so I must keep track of my workouts... Just a short 1hr run, about 12k... Next week my trainning schedule starts to improve and I have some hard workouts... even so, I'm planning to stay a little bit less time at the gin and get home early.. I have many other things that I want to do... So many things! Including the XTerra, so I'm looking for a mountain bike... I'm really looking for a bit more time on the "woods"... guess this wish is related to my recent reading about Patagonia's founder book, which have a very "impressive" name: Let Mu People Go Surfing... seems a good reading... My books wish list are getting longer and longer...

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So, october is off... and what a month... Now with november around the corner I still have one more week of "adaption trainning" and then I'll start to increase my volume in order to get ready for the high intensity trinning schedules for start on january. It feels good to work on strategy and planning of my trainning regim, althought I'm not as focused as I would like - do you know that quote saying "when u seems to get all the answers, than life changes all the questions" I'm in the middle of it... on these times the best you can do is keep your schedule and try to fit into the new scheme... well, for a while.. I love the quote by Bernard Shaw

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

so...

making good progresses with 8th Habit and pissed of with Amazon.com for not delivering (AGAIN!) my book - this time I bought a Mark Allen's...

on my list, still Dan Pink... and The Five Peope You Meet in Heaven

Today I enroled for a free account on market watch.. it seems to be a great initiative.. love those tech companies (talking about it, just reach this week issue of Business Week, worth taking a look).

For tomorrow I'm scheduled for my first long run of the season... tell you more!