Hmmm, you know it has been a long day when you fall asleep reading bedtime stories to your daughter. Bit of a parenting fail there. Still, other than that, it has been a fairly successful day.
Training wise the day has involved a bit of swimming, a bit of pilates and a light run. No one part of those sessions was particularly arduous, but I think the combination of them is more work than I have done for a while which might be what I am feeling now.
Of those bits of training, it was probably the swim that was the most interesting. As I mentioned yesterday Paul had said that this morning's swim would be something a little different. Bringing some of the chaos that makes up the Saturday afternoon swim session to Friday morning. That is pretty much exactly what it was. Not an exact copy of a Saturday session, but a lot of familiar elements, with loads of drafting practice, lead swapping and a few head to head races. All fun, albeit painful, stuff. Oh yeah, plus 400m of swimming in a T-shirt, because... well why not. Actually it was a fairly original way of increasing drag and was a bit more fun that doing bands, which is really why we did it.
The other thing I managed to fit it to today was a trip back to Doctor Gary Couanis for a bit of a chat about my heart and various test results. This visit didn't really hold any surprises, but was more of a confirmation of what I have been learning over the past couple of weeks. Mainly that the palpitations that I have been feeling are off putting but nothing dangerous and that I am okay to keep on training and racing, which is really good news. I also learned about a few other things that may be contributing and that I can change, all of which are potentially great incremental gains. I am hopeful that a few of the changes I have done recently might lead to a reduction in just how often I get these palpitations. Will just have to wait and see on that one though.
At the beginning of this whole heart palava I felt like I was more or less at peace with whatever was going to come of it. If the result was that I had to stop competing I felt that I was okay with that. However, not long into the seemingly endless series of Doctor's appointments and testing I came to realise that I am in fact not ready to stop racing yet. Not really anywhere close in fact. That realisation has been a bit of a big deal for me.
Keen to get back on with it now.
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