And then I was feeling...

Fine.

Amazing I know. Given how I was feeling on Friday night, I can't believe I am feeling more or less okay now. By the time I went to bed last night I was feeling pretty close to okay and by this morning I was feeling pretty closer. I know I was expecting this whole tummy bug thing to pass quickly, but expecting it and having it happening are two different things. Just quietly I am a little amazed it actually happened that way. Amazed and quite happy.

I probably could have trained today in one way or another, but a wise man once told me that when getting over something 'wait until you feel okay and then give it another day'. That day is today. I think it is a good call, since whilst I am feeling pretty close to 100%, my tummy is still giving me the odd grumpy signal, but I think by tomorrow I should be all good.

Even my wife who got the worst end of this particular bug has started to improve. To the point where she was able to play in the last of her scheduled concerts yesterday, and is out rehearsing as we speak today. Her recovery has been the slowest of the family, but she is making steady progress. We have all managed to eat today, which is a big step in the right direction.

Today hasn't been completely inactive though. I actually spend a bit of time paddling my surfski today. Very slowly. The reason for this sudden burst in unusual activity is that the Rottnest Channel swim is on in a couple of weeks and I am doing the paddle for a good friend of mine Shao Wu. Paddle, I hear you ask? Yes paddle. Before triathlon reared it ugly head, I used to be a kayaker, amongst other things. In the Rottnest channel swim each swimmer, or team of swimmers must be accompanied by at least one paddler. The paddler is kind of like the swimmers eyes, and pantry, and time keeper etc. I have nearly done the paddle a couple of times, but each time something has happened last minute to stop it. But when Shao asked me this year I had no hesitation in saying yes.

Shao is doing the 20km jaunt across to Rottnest solo, which makes it important for the paddler to do their job well. In aid of getting it right we were out practicing today, getting the position between the paddler and swimmer correct (I only ran over him once), praciting feed stops etc. It all went fairly well I thought, but I sure am glad we had the practice. There are certain things that sound good on paper that just don't work in practice, particularly when it comes to feed stops, so it was good to figure those things out.

Back to training tomorrow. I am certainly looking forward to it. Good to be feeling well again.