The Fog Has Lifted

The Fog Has Lifted
Ready, and Raring to Race
Energy Abounds!

…a haiku by me 🙂

Last week I wrote about being in a Negative Space, which I attributed to  a ‘Recovery Fog’:  a state where your body sort of shuts down  forcing you to recover from months of hard training.

I finally feel like that recovery fog has lifted.  I woke up this morning bursting with energy.   I did a short swim and a short run today, according to my taper plan*.   I kept it easy, held myself back, and yet still made my desired paces.  And,  I am still bursting with energy.

‘Save it for race day’ will be my mantra for this coming week.

Oh how I wish my race was tomorrow instead of in 8 days!  To tell you the honest truth, I liked the months of hard training much better than this tapering business.  I want pain, more pain.

* I am following Gale Bernhardt’s taper plan now, rather than Matt Fitzgerald’s training plan (Level 3 Ironman).   Matt’s tapering just has too much at a time when “less is more”.  Since my body was screaming for rest last week, I pulled out Gale’s book.   Even so, I am ONLY doing the workouts on Gale’s plan if I feel like it.  Otherwise, I sit on my duff and take it easy.  It’s all good!