Blame It On Protein

Since that duathlon, I just can’t seem to get on back on track. I think I’m more disappointed than I realized that I didn’t make any real gains in the last two years. Every year I come out starting the season with these new ideas, new equipment, toys and training schedules and think I will achieve some kind of breakthrough, but by about this time every season, the knees start to ache in that old familiar way, my times stay pretty much the same and I can’t seem to stay motivated. I even thought about just stopping altogether. Maybe the only breakthrough I’ll see is just continuing to train in spite of a bad attitude.

I tried to get up at 4am this morning after clocking ridiculous hours of sleep over the weekend and I finally got up at 4:30 and remained irritated until completion of my swim, which I barely completed at all.

When I was doing a lot of weightlifting, I was consuming at least 100 grams of protein every day. I’ve decided this has to be the root of my current funk and will begin eating protein in earnest.
28 weeks is a long time to be crabby about working out, so hopefully I will shake this off and get on with it.