To bring your dream into reality you need a plan. In the age of Internet any plan is just few keywords away, but that also brings the problem of “CONFUSION”. The more plans you see the more confused you will be. When I decided to do my first Ironman, I did the same, started crawling the Internet for Ironman plans and over the period of time I was exhausted, intimidated and more confused than ever.
To break this, one strategy that works is to find a plan which looks similar to your existing schedule or focuses on building the base and slowley progressing towards achieving your goal.
After going through numerous plans, I decided to go with this 32 weeks plan. The best part of the plan was it was quite balanced, has all the required components like cycling, swimming, running and strength training. It also has periodization covered, which includes Base, Build 1 & 2, Peak and Taper phases. Overall very well laid out plan.
Once I decided the plan, there was no looking back. I never questioned any part of it and stopped looking for other options.
The successful execution of the plan was definitely taking us closer to the success and we felt it after every session.
Sometimes you might need to de-tour from the plan for e.g., to participate in a race or some personal engagement, but the soon you come back the better it is.
In the end I’ll say once you zeroed down your plan, look no further, keep you head down and start working on it.
The best thing I did was taking a printout of the whole plan and I kept it with myself all the times, having a physical copy in the digital age is definely a cumbersome task, but do it. Once you touch and feel your plan, you will get the power and strength to execute it.
Dream it! Do it!
Cheers,
Ram
