Annoying Week

This week really has not gone to plan training wise. To many long days at work and or insufficient sleep. The week has been riddled with sessions that I wanted to get too, but simply couldn't. Wednesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, tonight. It has been a depressingly predictable pattern.

Really though, as frustrated as I feel right now, I suspect I am getting frustrated over a molehill. When I say training hasn't gone to plan, I have actually trained every day, and got in some pretty good quality sessions to boot. The sessions I have been forced to miss have been the secondary sessions, the extra ones. They are still important sessions, and I am annoyed to have missed them, but I have to remind myself that I have hardly been sitting on the couch. As athletes we get caught up in our expectation of ourselves and it can cause us to lose perspective, blowing small things out of proportion and causing ourselves stress, so I need to bring myself back to reality now and then and remind myself that the world isn't ending.

I think I am finding this week extra frustrating because I have been on a really good string of training. As I wrote earlier in the week I haven't hit full program compliance (which is another annoyance), but I have got pretty close. This great string of training means I am currently the fittest I have been in a really long time, and I am excited to keep building on that. Being forced to break momentum is just plan annoying. Nothing makes an athletes grumpier than being forced to miss training. Still, I need to keep reminding myself that a week of decreased training does not break an athlete in the long run, particularly when it is simply reduced training, rather that missed all together.

Yes, it has definitely been an annoying week. One that I am keen to move on from, but in the long run it is simply going to be small speed bump in the long road. Something I need to keep in mind.