Your advice and suggestions-PLEASE!
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Tribro posted 2 years ago.
you just discovered the toughest part of the sport, or 2 toughest parts.
1. Budgeting. It's not a cheap sport, not only with race fees, but with nutriation and gear. I've gone a couple years without racing due to finances, sometimes you got to make sacrifices for the long term, don't worry about missing races... but....
2. The second toughest part (or first really) is staying motivated. You need to create habits and just stick with it. Yes, having races or goals on the calendar make it easier, but either way you need to come up with things to keep you striving for that goal. Set a goal for the sprint or just do your own personal Olympic the weekend before exams. The sport is you against yourself and driving to improve upon your own limits. Not always necessary to have an organized event to test yourself. Do it on your own and schedule to do it again at a later daye and try to keep improving.
Anyway, some ideas. Sometimes you just need to be creative, but always move forward on your goals.
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tri_newbie_nerd posted 2 years ago.
Trust me, I am not spending money on eating meals out!!!
*sigh*
The one positive I guess is that even if I can't compete in the Oly, I thought I could still go down and treat and support the athletes who are. I'm studying to be a chiropractor and we have a Sports Club that travels to local events, road races and triathlons mostly. We offer complimentary care to the athletes in the races. Now that I've finally made it to the internship stage of my education, I can help treat at the races under the supervision of the licensed doctor. Could be a great opportunity to learn for both my career and my (new) hobby. How does the saying go- if you can't be an athlete, be in an athletic support!!!:D
"You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish, and if that be so, why not now and where you stand?" ~Robert Louis Stevenson
I plan to run my first tri on July 16. Seeing as how it is my firstt event, I signed up for the sprint distance course. I am pretty confident in my fitness level and the training I have done thus far that I will comfortably finish the race. In fact, I felt ready to race well over a month ago.
Here's where my condundrum starts...
In reading A TON of books this spring, I got inspired to try an Olympic distance event as that would be more of challenge for me. I got my training plan scheduled and I figured that as I trained for the Olympic, I would be in fine shape to take a run through the Sprint-distance race 3 weeks prior to the Oly. I have signed up for the Sprint, but the Oly is a $70 entry fee and thanks to being a grad student and having to pay for Board Exams this trimester, I have NO money. Certainly not $70 for the entry fee for the Olympic. Disappointed though I am that I'm probably not going to be able to do the Oly this year, I figured that maybe it worked out for the best because it was going to be the Sunday right before finals week and not knowing how a race will effect me afterwards yet, maybe I would be too exhausted to study. As well, I will be in the midst of packing up to move about that time, so again, perhaps its Fate's way of saying that I have other things to do besides enter this race.
So here is the point in all of that long-winded explanation. Facing not being able to do the Olympic, I have lost all motivation to do any training whatsoever for my Sprint, now about a month away.
Can anyone advise me? Anyone have some bright suggestions of how I can perform a magic trick and come up with $70 to do the Oly? Any suggestions for how to stay motivated in spite of having to give up my real goal?:confused:
"You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish, and if that be so, why not now and where you stand?" ~Robert Louis Stevenson