Hamthrax

I'm glad I've had the current version of the Influenza shot - but if what I've felt like for the past week since the shot is what a mild dose of dead H1N1 feels like then hell, a full dose really must be like death warmed up in a microwave.

It's day six since the stab of Hamthrax, and I am now sporting a lovely bruise over and around the injection site, which is still tender.  Joy...I've also been having breathing issues for the past week, so whatever dead crap they put in the vaccine sure didn't agree with me.  Glad it wasn't live crap in the vaccine, but may as well have been for all the good my workout felt last night at the gym.  I had trouble breathing on the bike (only level 7 hills at 85RPM, nothing new there) and on the run (meh, nothing new there either), and while doing my core stuff!  Like, WTF?  Since when does core get me out of breath?  Since NEVER!  

I'm banking on being better by Saturday (race rego) so I can go blow the doors off the house of pain better known as tri number 6.  I'm really starting to get quite laid back about tris now - which reminds me...need to print a race checklist for Sunday - and only just realised that today is four sleeps from race day.  I've got evening lane swim tonight, so will go do what's in my training plan (only 500m tonight plus 125m each for warm up and cool down) then have a nice hot spa and a stretch before coming home to have my protein shake and some carbs.

Tomorrow I have to enter triathlon number 7 and the 10km at the Rotorua Marathon, and I need a new pair or two of Thorlos as one is not enough.  Semi-expensive week, but all worth the money.  Once that's done, it's off for another bike/run brick and more core work.  Will have some pre-exercise asthma meds tonight and tomorrow (and on the bike on Sunday) just in case that's fired up from the Hamthrax.  I know the documentation said I'd probably feel like crap for a couple of days but this is just going on too long and is starting to annoy me.

Nothing much else to add right now, so I'll leave you with this thought from my friend Eliza:

There comes a point in your life when you realise who matters, who never did, who won't anymore... and who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.