It’s been exactly 7 days since Ironman Brasil and there is one thing I must learn from this race so I will put it in writing here for further reference: “Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears”
This week was literally an intended mess. I did everything I normally wouldn’t – ate A LOT of crap, drank quite a few beers and did absolutely nothing that even resembles exercising!
The funny thing is that 7 days later and I am already missing my ‘normal’ routine!!! I am hanging for eating properly, sleeping well and doing some sort of exercise!
I am conscious I still need a bit of extra time to rest body & mind but will start with some slow runs this week and see how I feel. I fly back to Australia on Friday PM and get there on Sunday morning and then back to work on Tuesday after the public holiday.
So this week’s key workouts were:
- Monday: big moquequa (fish dish) & beer for post-race recovery
- Wed, Thu & Fri: good effort on chocolate eating and also heaps of soft drink
- Fri PM: enough beers for a small headache on Saturday along with a big and fat BBQ
- Sat PM: more beers and more headache
- Sun: big BBQ lunch with the family!
So it is time I started phasing myself – slowly – back to ‘normal’ starting on Monday AM (tomorrow).
Finally, Gordo has a good article on this week’s blog that you can read here.
Until next time,
Rog