Day 38: Thankful for Friday

I woke up this morning and I actually felt like I wanted to do my workout.  After so many days of trudging to do the workout, this was the first day in a long time I actually wanted to do it.  I'm still battling with my right calf so sticking to the bike for now.  Spending more time stretching is definitely helping.  Anyhow, today's workout was pretty killer on the triceps.  The elevated triceps finally got me on the 3rd and 4th set, the last three reps I had to go to the ground to finish.  Then the skiiers just made the triceps burn even more!  I though planks were going to be manageable, but alas they were just slightly better executed than the last time.  First 2 sets, solid hold, last two sets, 5 second breaks after 20 seconds and then I finished the remaining 20 seconds in plank position.  Someday, I will be able to do all 4 sets for the 40 seconds solid.  Someday.

Food was better last night.  Not as hungry.  And again, today's breakfast was AMAZING!  I truly look forward to that meal everyday.  The one torturous thing was, I did have dreams about cookies last night.    Here's a good picture that would reflect me thinking about cookies... Oh cookie dream, why did you decide to come back and torture me?  Good thing it's Friday and I'm having a pretty good day.





The next section is just me venting about volleyball so if you want to skip it, I understand.

My college volleyball season is coming to a close soon and tonight is our "Dig Pink" match.  A match in which we raise funds for breast cancer research and the whole crowd and gymnasium are draped in pink.  We play against a very decent team tonight and it would be nice to just take a set from them.  College matches are played best of 5 sets.  We've lost the past 6 matches in 3 straight sets, every one of them, so we are very hungry for just one win.  Please just let us win one set, just one. Although we keep improving, so do the other teams and thus, it leaves us coaches trying out various methods and styles of coaching to find a way to win, even if it's just one set.  It's odd to coach a team that is not phased one way or the other upon the outcome of competition.  Basically we've got a team full of people that just like to be on a team and playing volleyball is second.  How do you coach someone to be competitive when physical fitness penalties do not motivate them?  How do you coach someone that gives only 50% effort and could careless if they get playing time or not?  I suppose these are all rhetorical questions, me just venting frustrations.  This is just so different than I'm used to, but I do cherish these types of challenges, because it just makes me a stronger coach in the end, so long as I can learn from it.