Forgive me,
self, for I have not trained. It has
been four days since my last triathlon.
The back
pain is now almost gone. I have not been
for a swim so far this week for fear of re-aggravating an already aggravated
back that had more spasm than a stomach with Dehli Belly. I have been doing a lot of walking though,
which is finally not painful. I also have
not run this week or been for a bike.
I will save
the swim and run for Saturday, and the bike for Sunday morning when I can
finally go out for a ride in my nice new bike shirt (which turned up late last
week, after several lying phone calls from the company I purchased it from over
four weeks ago). It is not worth messing
up my back even more for the sake of one or two missed training sessions, and
besides, the rest has been good.
I had a
great massage very early this morning and now I feel good. I think 30 or 40 minutes of sports massage
every two weeks will become mandatory. The
masseuse found a gazillion knots in my neck and shoulders, and a giant one
around my left scapula, in addition to gazillion more in my back. The knots are now almost gone but there will
be another two litres of water required to flush out all the toxins. I am trying to chug-a-lug my way through it
but it is so hard to drink when you are already hydrated and not even remotely
thirsty! I am now oilier than Marsden
Point but I feel great!
I passed
another assessment at Uni yesterday, so there is only one more to complete
before I receive my exercise consultant’s certificate. After Uni, I went to a wonderful store to
spend a voucher I won. I scored a pair
of recovery compression socks in pretty black.
I am certainly going to enjoy using them, and as a bonus, they double as
flight socks, so no DVTs for me.
The next
Uni assessment is going to be a bit gnarly.
It is exercise instruction, and I am still freaking out about PNF (or
assisted stretching), although I am a little less freaked now than last week. I need some “crash test smarties” to practice
on, so I will have to see whom I can drum up at short notice. I think I will be fine; I just need to do
some research and practice.
Real Uni
has now started for the year and I am doing three papers this year. The nutrition one is a double-semester paper
(meaning full-year); in semester one, I am doing intro sports science and in
semester two it is human development I.
I have about four more cores to do and a couple more 300-level papers
and I am done. I can even cross-credit
some of my IT degree papers across (like communication studies, marketing,
business management, etc) so my workload shrinks and the timeframe for
completion halves. The goal is a
Bachelor of Sport & Exercise or BSpEx.
Because I am studying extramurally, I will not have a major, as the papers
for the major options are not available in extramural mode.
The most
exciting thing on my calendar right now is Ironman New Zealand ,
in Taupo on 6 March. I am mega
excited! I am not competing, but going
to watch a friend and hopefully (if they ever get back to me) volunteer at it
also. Moreover, I get to watch the pros,
the middle of the packers, and the back of the packers. I always fall into the last group at my
triathlons, so I will especially enjoy watching fellow back of the packers completing
one of my dream events! This will be
awesome indeed!
In seven
more sleeps, I am off to Taupo, hooray!
I have
entered three of my remaining four events for the season. Two are Triwoman events (3/10/3), and one is another
super-duper sprint Panasonic event 1/10/2.
Better get off here and re-plot my training plan I guess!
Have a great day J
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