Back to the Start

Hamburg, Germany ITU Professional Race... World's 2007

If you'd have asked me 2 weeks ago what I would be doing the second week of my Ironman recovery I would not have told you than I got a good long run in, a great swim and on deck is a sweet spot bike ride.... I would most likely have told you I would have been sitting by the pool with my feet up.

Not so much!

In some ways I am waiting for the sting of the CNF / DNF to hit me. The more time passes.... the longer it doesn't. I am still waiting. Perhaps it is that I have had my tears and it's time to move on.

I am good at moving on. In most things I am.

Maybe it is just that in the grand scheme of things I have been through worse things.

Maybe it is just lurking around the corner.

As it is still summertime I am still taking some downtime, as this little head injury has not at all healed yet. There is still a lot of pain and some vision changes. I know this can last a long time and I just have to wait it out. I am learning to sit on the couch and sitting on the side edge of the pool while Luc swims his little heart out.

And every day I dream of Texas.

This morning it was back to Masters and back to outdoor long course. I had to take it easy but I tell you this.... I swam a bit with a helmet! No joke! Grimm brought me his kayak helmet and we did get pictures.... with a camera that had film. Who uses film? Not to worry the photographer Rauni, promised to have them developed quickly.

It was actually quite a buoyant helmet and not uncomfortable. Flip turns were a little weird, and there was not enough coverage in the back of the head, but hey it is a start!

And sometimes that's just where we need to begin, at the start. New goals, new workouts, new ideas. A season that goes past September and allows me to run in the fall..... I love to run in the fall.

So as we continue to work from the start I am relishing in the feeling of having an extended season doing what I love to do!