Prize Packs to Be Won - Thanks to Powered By Chocolate Milk

I have been lucky enough to have been working with Powered by Chocolate Milk as an Ambassador of the past 2 years and been drinking Chocolate Milk for my choice of recovery drink for as long as I can remember.

This April I now have some prize packs to give away to 5 lucky readers.

What Can You Win?

A Prize pack that contains;

• A $50 Running Room gift card, an aluminium water bottle, dri-fit shirt, and of course some chocolate milk!

Who Can Win?

You must live in Western Canada to win - so unfortunately for my readers outside of Western Canada you are not eligible. However I will do those readers a deal; - if you come to Vancouver lets go for a run and the chocolate milk will be on me that day!

How To Enter

To enter you need to do the two following things;

1. Leave a comment on the blog post below with your favourite post workout recovery tip
(Hint! An easy one is to drink Chocolate Milk!)

2. Tweet me the following (I have made it that easy you just need to click the hyperlink)

"I just entered to win a @pbchocolatemilk prize pack on @jeremyhopwood blog #pbcm" 

And BOOM! it is that easy. In fact entering is nearly as easy as drinking Chocolate Milk post your next workout

The Draw!

At the end of the week on Friday April 11th, 2014 I will be announcing the names of five lucky winners. Don’t forget to follow me on twitter so I can get your contact information! Reminder that the winners must live in Western Canada (BC, AB, MB or SK)

Learning To Hurt Again

I think sometimes you remember back on on past training blocks with a feeling that everything felt easy - others may not but I am definitely guilty of this.

This can make training especially when aspects are not where you would like very frustrating and de motivating.

For myself this coupled with the fact that I often have quite a few training sessions where I feel pretty average - I think it varies by the person but I often feel like I am working harder in training than I do when I race. I am not sure why that is but especially when it comes to long runs I tend to feel pretty average.

Why this is I do not really know - part of it could come down to fatigue but to be honest have tried mixing a few things up and still tends to be a theme. Sometimes the long runs I have in high mileage weeks are the best ones I have.

Intervals are anther good example of this conundrum - I am not sure if the brain is just good at forgetting the pain intervals produce when you do them properly or if I just suck at the moment but yikes do they feel like hard work.

So am thinking this is a bit if a mental thing at the moment along with a need to embrace the suffering I training. In the past couple years haven't pushed the limit that much and think with mental fatigue associated with other aspects of life (wrk, negotiating with toddlers) have become a bit soft in terms of pushing the limit and working hard at times.

No real story or conclusion to this post more than that just need to embrace the suffering a bit more and start to push the limit in the harder sessions a little more and look at "sucking" as a good thing. As always need to keep the easy stuff easy and not get stressed by the sub par days.

Well that concludes my time on the "blog couch"