Get back in the game
Monday, 18 July 2011. Precisely 30 days after my crash, I will hit the water again. The last two xrays have shown great progress on the healing process and I should slowly get back to swimming now. I'm already running and doing some trainer workouts for 10 days so it will be just a matter of time 'til I get my shape back. Hopefully, I will came stronger out of this and I will definitely work for some better luck.
In the meantime, I've been quite busy. Although I'm missing those 30 hour training weeks, I've taken the most out of my "extra" time and been active on side activities (read, enjoying summer how I can, while I can). People find it quite odd that even though I'm not training as hard as I use to, I still complain about the lack of time. Thruth is, if you DO have free time and you're a triathlete, you usually fill that empty space with something else. Also, the more free time you have the less organized you are and days seem to get (even) shorter. Triathletes only have free time when they are tapering and that one is spent on a couch with our legs up high. I'm sure most of you identify yourselfs with this "strange" behavior. You need to think what kind of person are you. The one who lets 24 hours in a day control you or do you control the 24 hours in a day.
So how about plans for the upcoming weeks?
Well it really all depends on how soon will I be able to really do some hard training. I should get on a plane to the US by late this month and spend all of August just training. I changed my plans, skipped IM Zurich and Frankfurt but will still focus on the Rev 3 race in Cedar Point on September 11th. I will jump right back into training after Cedar Point and look at either Arizona or Cozumel as the final season goal. It's now fairly obvious that I'm skipping IM Hawaii, since I don't have enough points to even dream of going so I will postponed that goal.
At the end we all navigate to the finish line differently. Even with a 30 day delay on the year, I won't follow my dreams; I will continue to chase them.
