Weekly Advice (a day late)

managing various kinds of stress is difficult

• if you're an athlete that works (most athletes) you've got:
• stress about your fitness
• stress about completing workouts as scheduled
• stress about the quality of each workout
• stress about work
• stress about girls/guys/kids
• untold other stressors
• to that end, how do you minimize?
• it's taken me quite a while to realize this, but...when I die I doubt I'll look back on that Saturday ride where I only managed 4 x 15' @ 280w when I was supposed to average 290w and say: "Well shit, that was pathetic."
• setting priorities is important
• your kids
• your family
• your house
• your job (this could probably be interchanged a bit depending on how much the previous 3 rely on this one)
• your social life
• your happiness
• your hobbies (i.e. triathlon) - this one should probably come last, let's be honest
• be realistic
• this is tough. i know self awareness is not always a glaring strength of many people, but really sit back and take stock of you and yours.
• "is my training schedule realistic?"
• "how is my work:life balance?"
• "am i making generally good decisions?"
• "what should my next lotto numbers pick be?"
• you know, stuff like that
• de-stress
• take a little ''me'' time
• spa day?
• shoot off some gunz?
• go karts?
• driving range?
• medicate
• just kidding, except not really.