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Diary of a Weightlifter - The Crucible of Competition

By Thorin Gault here is no greater performance training went well, and others were what seemed like everyone in the
Tenhancer than placing your completely frustrating. first km. Halfway through, I was
butt on the line. Last weekend, I The biggest challenge to my waiting for some fatigue to set in,
participated in the Ottawa Army Run, but I was feeling really good. By the
training came two days before the
a 5km event. As I communicated end of the fourth kilometer, I was
race. I was doing an easy 30-minute
last month, this was a big stretch for run where I was not pushing the pace. feeling the best I had the whole race
me as I have never been a huge fan The 30 minutes should have brought and really started to pick up the pace
of anything long distance.
me close to, but just short of the 5km – I was going to finish!
As much as I did not enjoy much mark – leaving me ready for the full I ended up finishing the 5km in
of the process, once I had committed distance on race day. For whatever exactly 30 minutes – significantly
(in this newspaper no less) I knew reason I completely fell apart and
faster than I expected (the course
that I was going to follow through could not continue just after 3km.
was actually 5.4km, which I
and complete the race, regardless of
how it was going to look. I was not only frustrated but also finished, but that is another story).
scared. Was I seriously not going to I relearned the same lesson I
My preparation was simple – I be able to complete the race?
followed an online ‘Couch to 5k’ have learned countless times in
program exactly as written and I went into the morning of the race weightlifting and other endeavours
added an endurance component with the attitude that I was going to in sports and life: when you put
to my pared down weightlifting war. My focus for the first third of everything on the line, great things
the race was to keep my pace slow, tend to happen. You find out what
training. While my progress was
slower than I would have liked ensuring I had the energy to finish. you are made of, which is always
and predicted, some weeks of As a result, I was being passed by more than you thought.