Sometimes LIFE just gets in the way...

For anyone doing the 12wbt, you will know that part of the warm-up tasks in pre-season is to write down all the excuses that normally prevent you from eating/exercising/living healthy, and strategies for coping and getting past those hurdles when they inevitably arise.

My excuses are nothing too exciting - I'm too busy, too tired, not motivated, etc...
All excuses.  All things I can realistically overcome in order to live the healthy life I know I should.

But this last week - was a crisis week!

One of those weeks, where LIFE really and truly got in the way, tripped me up and then decided to stick the boot in whilst I was down.

It started on Tuesday.  I had been really good and busy on the weekend exercise-wise, so Monday was my rest day.  In hindsight, I should have JFDI because little was I to know that LIFE was about to jump out and completely sabotage everything in the next 48 hours.

Tuesday night our area had a huge storm - thunder, lightning, hail, the works. Our house flooded.  At one point, hubby was out the front in his wetsuit, literally digging trenches to try and avert the flood that was coming in the front door.  I was in our bedroom mopping buckets and buckets of water, which it turns out was coming in from the roof (which was supposedly replaced earlier in the year following similar weather, but now turns out not to Council regulations, or any kind of regulations!!).

Our house is habitable (now), but we have no flooring, and hope there is no more freak summer storms headed our way in the next month or so whist the insurance sorts it all out. 

So, needless to say, exercise for the rest of the week as a definite non-event (along with other things, such as this blog).

But sometimes these things happen.  Sometimes, LIFE needs to happen, if only to put things in perspective and remind you what is important, what is worth stressing about, what is within your control to change.

For me, the lesson I have learnt this week?  Excuses are exactly that - excuses.  These are the reasons why you do/don't do something, that are within your power and control.  The things you can change.  LIFE is a little more transcendent.  LIFE tends to take control for you, if only to remind you that you can't be 'in control' all the time, but also to appreciate the areas that you can control.  This week, I have learnt a little bit more how to 'roll with the punches', how to pick myself up from something outside my control and get back on the wagon. 

And I have and I did.  And on Sunday I ran my second triathlon for the year.  But that's a story for another time!!