Well it’s been A LONG TIME since my last post.... and well sadly not much has happened although my plans 4 the last 2-3 weeks were for quite the opposite. Unfortunately a rather large lorry decided to stick its nose, or should I say 'reverse itself' over me and left me with a fractured elbow! Racing and training has been thrown up in the air completely and as I sit here writing this I should actually have been recovering from what I was expecting to be a break through race at half ironman
The doctor said I’d be unable 2 do anything for about 6 weeks... I had other ideas however. I gave it 7 days of COMPLETE REST... no work, training, unnecessary moving etc..... all very hard for me to handle though I did managed to get through series 4 of 24 (where would we be without Jack).... Every cloud ha ha! I have spent the last 14 days there after slowly easing back into things on my turbo at home and I’m now in a place where I can ride on this almost completely pain free. I even managed a 30min jog on Friday.... swimming is still out of the question as I still cant straighten my arm, but its definitely a HUGE blessing to see how quickly I’ve healed.... many people from church have been praying for me and & I know this is the reason for it only taking 2.5 weeks not the 6 the doctor predicted.
I’ve actually seen it as a positive thing too. Talking with my coach, there’s a good opportunity to do some super quality training on the bike and get this up to new levels hopefully. The turbo might be boring after a couple of hours but it could have been so much worse.... the fact that I’m still alive, let alone even able to do this is very fortunate.
I’m starting to look at how I can keep things on track race wise 2. I was really looking to progress with the swimming through this summer and keep jumping in at the ITU deep end. Glen seamed sure that a 20min swim was there already and I was hoping to do a 27 at worst if I’d raced this weekend at
it has given a good reason to spend more time with my mates though and l've had a few great nights round a BBQ with them that I know I wouldn’t have, if I’d not been out of action. It’s been nice to remember what its like to be completely free of commitment to training, racing etc. not that I want this to be the case more often, but that it’s aloud me to see other things in a clearer perspective.
whilst the frustration of not training properly, missing some key races and not swimming for SO LONG is still there its been eased, probably over-come by a number of other positives that actually mean this little break will have been a good thing once its over.
