Sleepy

Just a little tired today.

I got some unexpected and slightly frustrating news late last night and it was all I could think about when I headed to bed so it took me a while to settle. Our son then woke us up at 3:00am and that was me done for the night, my brain kicked into overdrive and I wasn't able to shut it down. I lay awake in bed until 4:00 before I figured I might as well put the time to good use so I got up, wrote some e-mails to help put my mind at ease and then jumped on the Kickr.

What is the frustrating news I hear you ask? I can't quite say yet, but give me a couple of days and then I should be able too. Not all that devastating to me, but certainly annoying.

On the upside I had a great session on the Kickr.

Today's session was a further build on the good session from Monday. I can certainly feel some of the strength and power returning to the legs. Today's session was not all that far removed from what I would have expected before my accident. Lacking perhaps another 10 or 20 watts which sounds like a lot, but given I have found 50 watts or so since I started training again a little over a week ago, I am fairly confident of getting back to normal. Just the body taking its time to remember what it is about.

Speaking of the Kickr, the plan is to be back on there in the morning. I have a little bit of lower leg soreness after my run yesterday (I told you so I hear my coach saying) and so I want to give it a bit more recovery time before running again. I am probably being over cautious, but I have had stress fractures before and I have no wish to return to that. I am in no rush at the moment, so if I have to take a little bit more time to make my return to training go smoothly then I will do just that. I could probably actually ride on the road, my shoulder is feeling good enough, but the Kickr is working well for me at the moment so I suspect I will just stick with that until after my last surgery.

On the topic of my last surgery, I just got the word on it. Unfortunately it is next week not this week. Friday week to be exact. On the bright side that is an extra week of healing my shoulder gets to do before the plate is removed. To make extra sure I guess. I would prefer sooner, but given that I am currently able to train fairly well it is not a big deal. It would be nice to be back in the pool sooner, but I can live with it. At least now I have an actual day to count down too. Let the counting of minutes commence.

The other good news about the surgery is that it is day surgery. My last surgery was very light and I was up and about in no time, but I wasn't sure how much this final one was going to take out of me. The fact that it is day surgery leads me to think it won't knock me around too much. Hopefully it means I will be able to get on with things pretty quickly afterwards.

I wonder if I will get to keep the plate?