Improvement

It was back down to the pool this morning, and I must say it was a big improvement over Wednesday. I am still not feeling quite as comfortable in the water as normal, but the speed was there at least. On Wednesday I didn't have that extra gear to go into when the pace got urgent. I looked for it, but just couldn't find it anywhere. This morning it was there out of the gate, I didn't even really have to search, I just went to swim faster and I did. Very reassuring.

I find that it often takes me a little bit of time to feel comfortable with training again after a race. Particularly with swimming. I remember once that it took me weeks to feel like I was swimming well again. You know deep down that it will all come back and it will feel normal again, and you keep telling yourself that, but sometimes you don't quite believe it. So it is a relief to feel okayish so quickly.

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I am off to Darwin next week. Planning for it has caused me a bit of stress, since I am not sure how training will work up there. It is only for 5 days, but it is 5 days of training that I would prefer to not miss if I can avoid it. I am pretty sure training will work okay, but I will have to wait and see. However, just today it dawned on me that I was getting caught up with worrying about training and I had lost track of the fact that I am going to go and train back up in Darwin for a week. When I left Darwin I had pretty much thought that I would never get to train up there again, but I get to go up there and see all my favourite bits of road again. I get to fly down Dickward Drive, roll up and down East Point, spin around the Nightcliff foreshore. I am really looking forward to it. I am hoping I can make it out to Nightcliff Pool for a swim, but I am not sure if the working day will let me. I am trying to view it has a 5 day training camp, where I spend large parts of the day recovering behind a desk. I just hope that trying to train in the Darwin weather doesn't kill me.

Of course the other big bright side is hopefully having a chance to catch up with some of the Darwin Tri Club folk.

So perhaps it isn't quite as much doom and gloom as I was thinking.