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It has been a very quiet week of training this week. I have got a couple sessions in, but really just the two, my body just hasn't been up for more. As my wife has said, I think your body is trying to tell you something.

My shoulder started off the week very sore. I wasn't entirely sure why but in the end put it down to being a bit to active with the family up at Guilderton and pushing things just a little bit to much. In particuarly I had been doing to much stuff above my head resulting in a lot of rotator cuff soreness. I thought it would be wise to give everything a rest until that settled down.

The shoulder was settling down nicely and was in fact feeling better than it has for weeks, to the point that I got a couple of training sessions in. It was then that I had 'one of those moments'. I was getting up of the couch and then slipped and fell back on the couch (you know, as you do). It really was nothing much, except that I broke my fall with my sore arm. I realised quickly and pulled it away, but not before I had landed on the arm for a split second. Cue sore shoulder again. This time it was sore enough that I slept badly Wednesday night and even got up around 2:00am to do some icing in an attempt to settle things down.

After that I wasn't keen to train again until the pain subsided.

That gets me to Friday and things were improving well. I had slept in to give my shoulder a bit more recovery time and the plan was train in the afternoon if the shoulder improvements had continued. The plan was looking good until about half way through the day when I noticed my throat feeling a bit scratchy. Not sick per se, just like a subtle threat of illness. It was at the point that my wife observed that my body might have been giving me a not so subtle message.

And that gets me to today. Given how I was feeling yesterday I didn't train again today. My throat is still a bit scratchy, but I am not feeling the fatigue that I had yesterday and am generally feeling better than I was. The shoulder has also continued to improve, still a bit sore for certain movements, but also better than it was. At this rate I am hopeful that I will be able to start trainng again on Monday.

I say all this because this has been a good week to put into practise some of the things I have been talking about in my blog this week. By all rights I should be going out of my head missing all this training. But instead I have been telling myself to go with the flow. The rest is time that my body is clearly requesting, I have been reminding myself that there is nothing to be gained by getting frustrated about it. This week has been one where the focus has to be on the bigger picture, which is getting all healed up so that I can begin the rebuild. Telling myself all this has meant that while this week has been a bit painful, it hasn't been particularly frustrating. Win.