my friday

so friday may have been my hardest training day of 2010 so far. The day looked ok, circuit training at platinum fitness and then an hour trainer ride with 6 high rpm spin-ups. I got an idea of how much pain i was in store for as i completed our warm up with Eric from foundation roots. several times in our 20 min session i had to shake out my left leg as it threatened to spasm and lock up. With burning quads i joined the rest of our group in our fast paced core curcuit. Frazer and peter have been great at getting the most out of me during our twice weekly workouts. While some exercises are impossible due to my weak leg arm and leg, the two of them have found the limits of my range and flexibility with exercises that continually challenge my ability to withstand the pain and keep up with the terribly fit athletes that are my training partners. After almost 2 hours of activity, there was not a single person in the room who was not sweating out through their eyeballs and grimacing with fatigue. With the deadly smile and laugh i have come to associate with much suffering on my part, a line of kettleballs was positioned across the room. With instructions of 30 sec on and 30 sec off, the timer counted down from 9 min. While i have done kettleball swings before, i have not had a work out like this at the end of a session thus far. I barely survived. The 10 min after were pretty fuzzy, i do remember putting on warm clothes to allow my body sufficient time to cool down. When i got home it was a struggle to get on the trainer. I must have gone and looked at it and my workout on training peaks 10 times before i had a cup of espresso, put bibs on and mounted up. during my warm up i was how brutal just finishing the efforts would be. I managed through the first few but come numbers 4, 5, and 6 i wanted to die. All i could think of was that there is a reason i am here, on the trainer, suffering like this. It isn't collegiate season, not a so-cal crit, but nationals, world cups, worlds, and the ultimate, the paralympics. It may not be this week, month, or even year, but later down the line, when im older, stronger, these days of putting it all out there will be the days that let me achieve my goals. And with my last interval done i collapsed on my handlebars, having given my all through my workouts that day.