{"id":2677,"date":"2014-03-13T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2014-03-13T07:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T11:55:45","slug":"letting-life-get-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elbowglitter.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/13\/letting-life-get-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Life Get In The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another week where I have let life get in the way of my training.<\/p>\n<p>And not the fun parts of life either.\u00a0 No, thanks to work, I&#8217;ve managed to completely hose my training for the week.\u00a0 Tuesday&#8217;s swim got skipped because I had to be at work at 7:15 and since I can&#8217;t swim til 6am per the pool rules, that wasn&#8217;t going to work.\u00a0 After an intense day of meetings at work and running around in heels all day, Tuesday night I went home and collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I had good intentions even though I was tired.\u00a0 Made it through 30 minutes on the bike trainer and my body just gave out.\u00a0 Total exhaustion.\u00a0 So I decided to listen to my body and hopped off the bike, into the shower, and then into bed.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight is team swim practice.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m going to skip it in favor of getting in a run.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t get in my full long run last weekend, and I have back to back half marathons coming up painfully soon.\u00a0 If I run tonight and then get in a long run on the weekend, I have a slightly better chance of being prepared.\u00a0 But let&#8217;s be honest, that whole weekend is going to hurt.\u00a0 It will be fun, but it will be painful.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s hoping next week goes better.\u00a0 This is why I extended out my tri training schedule.\u00a0 I knew things like this would happen, and I&#8217;m ultimately not worried about it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a bit frustrating to see those workouts on my calendar without that proud checkmark next to them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another week where I have let life get in the way of my training. 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