"Training is the opposite of hoping"

Hmm. This quote is so true, yet the last month and half I've been doing more hoping than training - hoping that my lack of working out is just a good break for my body and not doing anything horrible to it by not working out. Think it will work?

Well, not exactly. Although this extended quiet period from me doesn't mean I completely fell off the face of the training world, it does mean I've slacked - er, relaxed - my necessity to train. But, mostly it's because of things happening outside of my training life, and things I can't quite control. But more to come on that later.

In the last six weeks or so since my last post, I've done a run here and there, bits of swimming and jaunts in the weight room and on the elliptical. But I miss my set training schedule, I miss my energy to get up every morning and MOVE and I miss racing! (Who knew I would ever really say that?!?) However, in these few weeks, I've thought about my passion for triathlon and wondered if it would be right for me to take a break and pursue something else.

How about trying to qualify for Boston? Watching the women's race was exciting, though I was eating mac & cheese at my desk at work...doesn't really get me on the right foot to do so! However, I first need to leap the hurdle of completing my first marathon-only race (still!). (By the way, anyone registered in the lottery for New York? Can't wait to find out if I made it in or not...) But lately I've been reading more and more tri blogs and getting my itch again. A bit of bad timing, but I'm hoping it'll help me keep my sites on for next season. We shall see. In the meantime, I'll just stick with running and swimming and see where it takes me.