Productive Lazy week

Just bare with me I will explain.

This week started off great.  Three quality workouts in two days including a great circuit workout with Fish (Rob Fisher) and the other Capital City throwers.  Feeling good and excited about possibly having a big week.  However, this week was also my wife's birthday and I had planned an overnight trip to Banff to celebrate and get out of the city with the family.  Banff was awesome and the weather was perfect.  Coming home to a huge snowstorm and a 100 car pile up on the highway meant that our 3.75 hour drive home took 6 hours.  Leaving us bagged and tired when we pulled into the garage just in time to get to bed for work the next morning.  Usually on this set of shifts I can get in 4 solid workouts during the day.  This week was different, lot's of work training and busy days meant no workouts at work all weekend.  Feeling very sluggish I know that I need a couple good workouts to get me back in gear....monday is almost here and the start of a new training week.

 I guess I was not so much lazy as buzy but you get what I am talking about.

As for productive.....While at practice on Tuesday I was able to finalize my event schedule for the spring and summer.  First meet is in Calgary May 5th and then back in Calgary for May 11th.  A total of 6 track meets with the potential for 2 others if I can get my act together and throw well.  Of course for that to happen the 5 feet of snow on my front lawn needs to melt first so I can start throwing.  Having a competition schedule for the season is a huge deal for me to work towards especially realizing that the first meet is only 6 weeks away!!!!

Train hard

David 

Spikes and Snow

First the good news.  New Spikes arrived last week!!!!!

I am very excited to finally have spikes to train in, now if I could only get outside and throw!!!  Spring in Edmonton means a lot of different things and one of them is the possibility of snow.  The last 2 days we have had a dump of close to 20cm.  Prior to this dump we could actually see grass on our front lawn and my daughter Sydney had a world of fun splashing in puddles of melted ice.  More snow just means a longer wait until I can actually start throwing.  This is a big deal since the season is coming up fast.  There is a big throws gala in Lethbridge in 8 weeks and I am stuck inside throwing weighted balls against a wall.  No fun at all but like everything this season I must be patient.   

Training Update  

The excitement of training is still very much alive within me.  I do not train because I have to, I train because I want to.  Training has definitely been increasing.  Total hours and total number of workouts are increasing from my early season numbers and I am definitely noticing a change in fitness from 4-6 months ago.  Now if I can only get outside and see what all my hard work this winter has gotten me.  I am meeting with Rob on Tuesday to discuss spring training and the competition season ahead.  I am excited to get a lot of throwing in and attending many competitions throughout Alberta.  

David