What do you do when your events are cancelled?
Many of you are in this situation right now. You may have been cutting weight for a bikini competition, swimming laps for a triathlon, or logging miles for an endurance trail run. The pools are closed, the contests are cancelled, and now the motivation to focus on your daily training program has flown out the window. So what do you do? Have you suddenly lost the urge to train, to run, to bike, to lift and even to eat well? If so then it may be time to start reassessing why you were training in the first place. On March 19 th when my business was closed down by the state, I lost the focus to ride my bike even though I had been training for a June race for the last 5 months. The stressors of daily life got the best of me for a few days and I didn’t ride or do much else for nearly a week. When we train for events it becomes our “job”… Following a plan with a specific goal gives us a focus, a purpose, and a reason to work hard despite already busy lives to achieve somet