A better day

Feeling a bit better today, still not epically happy with the world, but feeling a bit brighter than yesterday.

Today has been the sort of quiet day that I have probably needed. A good night's sleep didn't exactly solve all my woes, but it did make me feel a whole bunch better. A quiet but industrious day with the kids, plus a bit of time out doing some easy exercise has probably helped too.

I would love to say that on reflection I have thought of a great plan to solve my worries, but to be honest I haven't really. However, I also know that such a plan probably isn't necessary. I know that there probably isn't much that I need to change, things are likely to improve if I just keep doing what I have been doing and simply wait. Work is going well and will is likely to only get better as time goes on, the same goes for coaching. The main unknown in all this is my health, but odds are that even that will improve with time if I have the patience to let it. And really that is probably the key, having the patience to follow the process and let my body improve. As frustrated as I am at the moment I really need to settle down and get through this period of detraining. If the detraining doesn't go well then perhaps I have an excuse to lose it a little bit, but until then I just need to be patient and focus on other things.

One of those other things is coaching, which I did a little bit of today. Not the running around and yelling at people bit, but rather the other side of coaching, the quiet administrative bit. This is the bit that really takes the time, and while it doesn't seem like it will be much fun, it is actually a bit that I really enjoy. The administrative bit that I was doing today wasn't all that time consuming in the end, writing a bit of a program for an athlete and then a bit of follow up correspondence with another. Fairly easy as administrative tasks go.

Getting these tasks done and the associated sense of achievement probably helped today feel a bit better than yesterday. When I talk about focusing on other things while I let my body recover, it is these things that will help.

Onward and Upward.