Well I have decided to abandon 2010's training log. It started strong and then kind of piddled away into nothing. Two Oh Eleven started with my continuing to be plagued by sickness every time I start to get back into training with an enjoyable persistant cough linking various other maladies. My fitness is down from my crash and burn second half of 2010 which consisted of little motivation, little training and large amounts of stress.
Let's forget that story and embrace 2011 and all it's challenges and challenging it will be. Challenge number one: getting ready for the early season races from a poor fitness level while mainting my health. Challenge number two: fitting racing in around my fieldwork schedule which will involve probably around a 10 day trip to Greenland in April and then several weeks in June/July. Challenge three: Reducing stress in my life and getting through some personal sh!t so I stop getting sick all the time.
Plan of attack: The April trip is hopefully early enough that I can just plan an off-week, get in some running and hit training hard before and after. The June/July trip I have some potential running buddies so plan to work that in to keep up aerobic fitness. After that trip I will focus on a September race to ramp back up to.
I have been really enjoying riding to school in the snow this winter. It's not fast but it's usually challenging and a lot of fun.
There's been some skiing, running, yoga and trainer riding in the past few weeks but I'm just going to start with this week for logging.
Tuesday: Trainer (40 min) - still coming off of a cold so I kept it fairly light and spinny, just getting my legs used to things again after two weeks at the parents away from my bicycles. Felt pretty good though!
Wednesday: Ski (1 hr), Trainer (45 min) - Went for a nice afternoon ski (classic) with a friend. We blazed a trail in the park area north of campus and made ourselves a loop to go around. We didn't push too hard to give my cold a chance to clear up some more but was a decent workout for my arms and legs and my lungs are starting to feel back to normal again after almost two months of coughing.
Trainer I pushed a little harder than yesterday and my breathing again felt quite good and strong. I did a few intervals of relatively higher intensity but am still just going on feel and haven't brought out the HR monitor yet. I think it is coming out next week though, yay! This week I will keep on with getting my body warmed back up.
I know all about personal shit. Can be quite hard to handle at the time. But once you do all you can to get it sorted (one way or another), time in the end doesn't heal all wounds but goes a long way to do so. 
