The past ten days have been a whirlwind of butt kicking for me. That is, I have been kicking my own butt. Last week I did a lot of hard workouts, mostly by myself. With no teammates working hard with me, no coaching watching and expecting me to work hard, it’s just me and my own butt. Now, this is nothing new for me and ski training. I pretty much always have to motivate and work out by myself. Last week was especially hard though, because I really picked up the intensity from what I had been doing this summer.
This summer I kicked my butt so hard working in the kitchen at Camp Gray, that I didn’t have the energy or time I needed to train like I wanted to. I did get a ton of good workouts in, just maybe not as much as the US ski team. The kitchen also kicked my butt last week when many of my highest volume days were days I worked 8 hours.
The real “kicker” is this though - I made myself take a rest day. This is actually harder for me to do than to work out when I feel crappy, but I’m learning it’s the right thing to do. I just felt so crappy I knew it would be dumb to do the workout I had planned, or any workout. I gave myself a stern talking to and spend the day doing, well, nothing. I hate rest days. I hate unplanned rest days even more. But if that’s what it takes…
Today I actually had my butt kicked by Denise Austin in pilates. Some other people here at camp have started doing weekly pilates. I figure, I might as well take advantage of the opportunity to work out with others for a while. Denise is the crazy lady on the DVD who can do crazy things with her body, all while talking to you an that annoying, patronizing voice. I told her if she kept talking to me like that I was going to kick her butt, but she didn’t listen.
