day by day

In the giant scheme of things my day was extremely easy and it’s hard to complain when what I do is golf every day, but…  still, there are good days and bad days and today leaned much more towards the difficult than the pleasant.  Physically, I felt great out there.  I had plenty of sleep and have been eating well, but mentally I was absent.  It felt like I checked out for some reason and just couldn’t get my head back into the game.  This has happened a few times in the past five months and I wonder if there is anything that I can attribute it to, but am not sure at this point.  I looked back through all of my notes and nothing stands out as a reason why I would feel bad for a couple days, but it does seem to happen and at least now I know more about what I should expect during one of these times and know that the best thing is to push through and get the most practice that I can in the interim.

So..  I got in six hours and a long run today, but I would say about half of those hours were actually quality time.  I’m not sure how to count those, but will mention that when I talk with Dr. K Anders Ericsson and Dr. Len Hill this Friday.  We (my coach and I) have a conference call planned with them and I definitely have a few questions about practice, learning and retaining knowledge.  Concerning the retainment of knowledge, I wonder if how I am learning will be like riding a bike, as in will I “know” it when the time comes and I’m on the spot, or will I revert back to my training and over think everything during a tournament?  Guess that will only be answered when the time comes.  For now, I’ll just hope that I can snap out of this cold spell and get some good training hours in for the rest of this week.

It’s day by day by day.  The only way to really get good at something is to put in the time.  Regardless if you’re feeling good or bad, you just have to get out there and do it!

On a completely different side of the cake, I decided to take a break from my cognitive training.  It’s a long story, but I was just not getting out of it what I had hoped and with the busy schedule I have right now figured it would be good to lighten the load and maintain my sanity for as long as possible.  More news on that to come soon.