It’s 7:29 am

I woke up at 5:20 ish.

My phone was set for 5:20, I hear it immediately. I silence it and lay still for a few minutes. I quickly doze off. But I know I’ve got to get up. I do get up. Just as my second alarm goes off.

My watch was timed for 5:26. It lets out a ding, ding, ding, until it’s silenced. Not too loud. But if left unattended would wake up Lauren, wake up the kids. Can’t have that.

I get up, grab my water bottle and just as I start walking out of the bedroom, the watch starts dinging.

I silence it after just a few dings.

Clothes on, go to the bathroom, brush my teeth. Glasses on.

Head to the backyard. To the garage.

I tidy up the wood pile, the kids bikes, the bags of bottles and cans, the dirt bags, etc, I sweep it, put out my box of balls, my hitting mat, and my clubs.

I get one in, my first golf training session in quite some time. Feels like forever.

I will be golfing this weekend. Friday 18 holes I believe at a brand new course. Then maybe the lake 9 holes track.

I discovered the shape of the bounce today. In the most resolution ever.

I used the strobe light right away.

What I could’ve done more of, was left hand weak, strong. right hand weak, strong.

I could’ve put those work gloves on as well. One at a time, or both. As another iteration of the same thing. Your grip. The tenants of practicing golf.

1. Your eyes
2. Your hands
3. Your implement
4. Your feet
5. The ground
6. The ball

When you have a practice session. These are the main areas that must be accounted for, whether you are aware or not.

If you’re aware of all 6. Then you can manipulate them as you wish dial up or down the difficulty. When you consider all 6 on a session you’re learning the most, especially when you’re being super deliberate the goal yet open ended how you get there.

Right now I’m continuing to build the vision for the club right through the bottom of the arc.

This morning just so happened to get another breakthrough. I was able to see the shape of the bounce of my club. And then use that knowledge, made it easier to move the club along the bottom of the arc with elevated precision and confidence like never before.

I’ve had great feel. I’ve had great results. But this just brought even further into hyper detail across all aspects of it. The bottom of the arc that truly I’ve never had that kind of detail for the club itself.

And that’s the goal, I can’t be holding to the previous feels and visions. Ever time you pick up the club you’ve got to build it new. Especially so when it’s first thing in the morning. Throughout the day you build your mastery. Within each session get the hang of it.

The more clarity you have, right away, the mental model that is stickiest. As I’m progressing towards.

Starts making it obvious. Effortless. Second nature.

So good to get a tens pump recovery. Quads. Left knee, inside calves.

Pretty solid

** work work work. Meetings meetings. Emails.

Are some lunch brunch first food around 10:30 ish.

It’s 11:45am right now

Watched some YouTube on running. And realize with this challenge I’ve given myself I’ve got a whole new feed generated. How to go from a 50 min 10km to a 33min. Seems feasible lol.

Also watched some of Jeremy miller I believe his name is. A little insight there. Getting used to running fasted. Especially for these short runs. Trains the body. So. Maybe we do that for this lunch runs instead.

Either way. Now that I am fairly fuelled. I realized I need to get more inclined work done. To target those muscles. Then we’ll get back and hit the deep squat plus core workout. Important to fuel post work get the recovery going. Following this guy who is doing 100 mile runs in the mountains etc etc etc. Value there to be gained related to my 50k trail run challenge versus trying to run the 10k sub 40 or whatever.

Definitely not in this alone. So much information out there with guys like this sharing their routines.

11:50. Time to get my running gear on.

2:01 now. We went for our run. I was inspired by the Jeremy miller video just before where he did an inclined treadmill workout and there was another one from some other guy about the benefits of doing sessions running uphill. Also the fact that I need to get used to hills. I’ve seen very few hills thus far.

Point is, it dawned on me that I had a toboggan hill just basically a block away. Super convenient to get to from our house. And so I set out. Tackled some hill ups and downs. And around. It was really solid. I kinda cut it shorter than I had in the tank. I’ll be back tomorrow for another run. Likely looks a little different tomorrow. I think will be an am run before work as I’ve got the office day and then we head to the lake when I get home.

I tried the lace lock feature on the shoes which was sweet.

I’m still a little concerned about my right foot. It seems to not be striding properly in the shoe. Super annoying. Part of it might be my leg muscles pulling at my foot. My right pinky toe curls under a bit. And at times I just let it cram into the right of the shoe.

Ideally my foot would stride more in the center of the shoe. It has me thinking orthotics. It has me thinking different shoes.

Stretching my foot out is also something I’ll work on daily, and keep working to space out and up the pinky toe.

After the run I did some mobility plus weight plus ab roller and pushups and squats and lunges and counterbalance stuff and more.

Now I’ve got my first protein shake in who knows how long. Lauren has already stocked up on creatine and protein in your routine so I’m good to go. Once again. Inspired by Jeremy there to fuel up as soon as I finish my exercises and start the recovery process.

6:39

Feeling some shin pain.

Signed up for my first half marathon here in Regina!

I need some road running shoes now tho.

Also, think I’ll be looking for trail running race day shoes to make sure I’m ready for wet conditions.

9:23

This is why getting the golf, the run, the workout in during the morning and day is critical. I’m still with the kids getting them to bed. They were especially tired up this evening. Jude here feeling sick. But we realize it was needing to show who number 2 works for. Lol.

“I ate so much food at dinner, and desert and I ate some eggs, and some food, and that’s all I had, and some noodles, that’s all I had, and peas, that’s all I had.”

Dessert tonight was not big at all, not sure the reason aside from a bad wind down, they were doing their high jumps before bed. Had trouble sitting for books. And now here we are.

Jude uncomfortable. Likely was going to be the case regardless if he hadn’t done a number 2 today.

That’s life as a parent. Working towards goals. You gotta find the time. Take advantage of the time. When you’ve got the time.

“Now is the time”

“Timing is everything”

Tomorrow morning is likely my only opportunity to get a run in.

Could do 5am and then 5:30 till 6. And then maybe then I’ll be able to get ready in half an hour and then drive to work. No time for golf practice.

It’s 9:30 tonight. I have time to get some golf practice in. Assuming kids fall asleep.

Or in theory. If I can get to bed before 10pm. I can wake up at 5am. And have plenty of time to get out for my run around the lake. Not tooo sure I want to go that far. I’m aiming for a 20k this weekend. So I want to just get a nice jolt tomorrow to flush the system. Maybe rip hills again. Could be nice. Point is. Morning run is required to keep up with daily run challenge tracker.