Mind Games

I find myself doing a lot of thinking when doing my Tri related workouts as the majority of the time you are by yourself doing something for an extended amount of time. This mindless wandering is good and bad, the good thing is that I can prioritize things about work in my head, brainstorm ideas for something I am working on at home or at work or even just think randomly about things I want to do in life.

On occasion I come up with dumb ideas such as I think I could learn Spanish while swimming if I just got one of those underwater IPod gadgets. I mean really when swimming most of the time I am just trying to keep track of what lap I am on and hell half the time I lose count anyways and just have to stop when I see the person in the lane next to me stop. So why not download the Rosetta Stone stuff and try learning Spanish underwater, huh? I doubt I ever get around to this though....

The bad part is my mind is cruel, no matter how hard I try to get out of my head how far I have gone or how long I have been doing something my mind seems to have an internal clock or something constantly trying to remind me how much farther I have to go. This is also the reason I am not a fan of single mile markers in half-marathons or 10K for that matter, just tell me when I am half way.

So I have gone on a new journey to find a way to play tricks with my head, I am trying to get to the point of where I don't think about distance when riding or running. Swimming I have no way around it as that is how we keep track of the workout, plus the master swim group the competition kicks in since you are working out in more of a group setting.