Weekly Advice

It's early (ok, "mid") January, therefore it is important to:

• Not care too hard about any performance whatsoever
• For example, I just ran a 38+ minute 10k after a week of being sick. Was it lame? Yes. Does it matter? Nope.
• Did your FTP test go poorly? Well, it's January. If your FTP test went really well I'd have much suspicion regarding how you spent your "off season." 
• Do fun stuff
• See previous post, and continue to reference this step throughout the year but with special focus on "winter" months.
• Establish trends
• Running 6 days a week? Check. Good trend to start.
• Eating vegetarian? Meh, but give it a whirl.
• Eating less dessert? That's a good, if not fun, trend.
• Saving more money? This is triathlon, you don't get to save any of your money.
• Do stuff that you won't have time for later
• Doctor's appointments
• House work
• Cleaning your house
• Making food at home
• Saving money
• Stay warm
• Live in the Southwest

That does it for the weekly advice column. Follow these guidelines and you will be SET.