I’m on a trip in which I haven’t had a good swim option (the hotel told me they had an outdoor lap pool. Uhmmm, no you don’t!) So I’ve pushed out 2 swim workouts and pulled up 2 runs. (Running in the New Orleans heat and humidity.)

I have three more trips in the next 2 weeks. A business partner just asked me to attend a 3-day train-the-trainer session in California in July. And this request for 3 more days out of town has sent me into a total overwhelm tailspin!

So…let’s outline the schedule!

Week of	Hours	What’s Needed
May 29 Cisco & Nashville	14.5	Bike 2 hours Monday p.m. or 4:00-6:00 a.m. Tuesday. Run 1 hour Tuesday p.m. or 5:00-6:00 a.m. Wednesday. Swim 1 hour Wednesday p.m. after flight at 8:00 p.m. or 5:45 a.m. on Thursday. 105-minute swim on Friday in Nashville? Where? Saturday 3-hour bike ride, 30-minute run in fitness center??? Rent bike??? Sunday swim and run after we get back.
June 5 1 day Joliet	16	Moved things around = reasonable!
June 12 Holland, MI	8.5	Pull 1 swim session up to Tuesday. Run before we leave on Sunday. Swim when we get home. Open water swim continuous while I am there.
June 19 2 days Joliet	11	Moved things around = reasonable!
June 26 2 days Decatur	12.5	Run 90 minutes late morning (after already biking and swimming) or 4:30-6:00 a.m. Tuesday. Run 30 minutes Wednesday a.m. 5:30-6:00 a.m.
July 3 Holiday Day w/Laura	14	Check plan, not sure everything’s in my calendar = reasonable!
July 10 California 3 days	8.5	Move Monday’s swim to Sunday. Move Tuesday to Monday (all 3 sports on Monday). Move Wednesday’s run to Tuesday. Tuesday run 5:00-6:00 a.m. or in evening. Move Thursday’s bike to Wednesday. Wednesday bike 5:30-6:30 a.m. or in evening. Thursday Learning Group webinar from 6:00-8:00 a.m. Week before half IM. Yikes!
July 17 3 days California	13.5	6:00 a.m. Learning Group webinar Monday after half IM. Move long bike to Monday and replace short bike. 60-minute run Tuesday p.m. or Wednesday 5:00-6:00 a.m. Swim session while I’m gone?
July 24 2 days NB	15.5	Wednesday p.m. 75-minute run. Thursday p.m. 90-minute bike.
July 31 HH Vacation	17	Rented bike. Check time for August 5 swim. Do swim by time instead of distance.
August 7 2 days Canton	18	?? Moved things around to make travel days reasonable, yet that puts all 3 sports big on Sunday and big bricks on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Saturday 88 miles on IW bike course  + 25-minute run.
August 14 2 days Joliet	10	Reasonable and shift bike to Saturday.
August 21 Wisconsin Dells	13	Shift swims = reasonable!
August 28	8	No trips = reasonable!
September 4	5	No trips = reasonable!

I wrote all this out in my notebook, as I was cycling in a fitness center for 2 hours. I got more and more overwhelmed as I flipped in my calendar forward to the next week and next week and saw trip after trip after client days on-site. I was sighing and shaking my head. I’m sure the gal on the bike next to me wondered what my problem was.

I was worrying that I was shifting my training sessions around too much. I felt I should review the big weeks with my coach and talk with people about whether I was completely messing up the purpose of so many workouts by moving them around. I needed to research options for biking and swimming in all the cities to which I was traveling. So. Much. To. Do!!!

Then, I stopped. I thought: CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE!

I took on this game. There’s no need for me to talk to anyone. This is how I need to work it out in order to make the training happen with the work commitments that I wanted to make and that I want to keep. I don’t want to hear anyone else tell me that what I’m doing isn’t good – because it’s what I need to do. This is my game. I’m doing it my way.

And, if I can do next week – with 3 on-site work days – and a Thursday through Sunday vacation trip; then I can do any one of these weeks! Game on.