Improving (I think)

I erred on the side of prudence this morning. As I mentioned yesterday I spent most of the day with a sore throat. On top of that by the time we went to bed my wife was feeling absolutely awful, which I was taking as a possible precursor to how I would be feeling today. When I went to bed last night my plan has been to wake up and play it by ear with regard to training. However, I always find it hard to accurately assess just how I am feeling when I first get up. So when I got up I figured that a better course of action would be to stay asleep and then judge how I am feeling this afternoon. My plan being that if I am feeling okay by the end of the day then I would consider doing some training this afternoon.

Quite happy with the decision if I may so say myself.

We were in bed by about 8:50 last night. I know right, how zany are we?!!

Anyway, between going to bed so early and staying in bed this morning I got well over 8 hours sleep last night. That includes the time spent taking my daughter back to bed in the middle of the night. So waking up this morning I may not have felt 100%, but I certainly felt rested. Part way through the day that I am, I am starting to feel a little more confident that I may have dodged the worst of this. I am certainly not feeling as bad as my wife seems to be. The sore throat has abated, I have had a bit of coughing, but I think that is mostly my asthma speaking. I don't seem to have slipped into the foggy brain, head cold phase yet, and I am sort of hoping that I won't. I wouldn't say I am 100%, but I am close.

Not sure what I will do this afternoon. The triathlete part of me is saying that I feel well enough to train. The prudent part of me is saying to give myself the afternoon, have another epic night's rest and then back to it tomorrow. I will see how I am feeling once I am back home this afternoon before making the final call.

In other interesting news, my calender for next year is shaping up. Looks like it could be an fun year. The biggest, most recent news is that I think I will be making a return to the Albany Half Ironman for the third year in a row. I am still a bit unsure about this one, since last year's race still leaves me waking up in a cold sweat. But the race suits me (in theory) and it is at a good time of year for me, so it is firming up as a likely contender. My plan had been to go and do the Auckland 70.3, but for various reasons that has become less and less likely as the year has progressed. Yesterday I finally sat down to plan flights etc and realised that I no longer had a good reason to travel so far to race. Albany looks like a better alternative, so that is the plan. Some other interesting races on the horizon though, including a couple of full Ironman events later in the year I think. The plan is still a work in progress, but 2015 could be fun 12 months.