Karen writes: A week later

Going a bit nuts here.   Feeling physically in excellent shape, wanting to do some exercise, but figuring since there is another whole year of training ahead, it’s probably a good idea to take the opportunity to have a wee rest right now.   Also, there is plenty written about recovering after a big event, nothing about what to do for a big event which simply didn't happen...it's like the training momentum builds and builds, then....crash...nothing!  And while the half IM saved us on the day, it was still a shorter effort than some training days had been in recent times.

Just heard that the entry for next years Ironman isn’t opening tomorrow morning as was advertised, apparently there is work to be done first sorting out the reduced rate overseas Ironman opportunities which were to be offered to us as compensation for our 'lost' event.  Not an option for me and Kate, we just want to sign up for next years Taupo version, and we will remain on tenterhooks until we can sign on the dotted line, pay our money and then start planning.

Looking at our blog entries from last week we were so excited, by this time we had settled ourselves down in Taupo, were working our way through registration and getting ready for the biggest sporting event of our lives.   So much has happened, now the mind is trying to come to terms with another year of buildup and the body is trying to figure out how to recover from the Sunday half IM and cope with different energy in and expenditure demands (ie, still wants to eat everything while doing very little).

So a week later, I’m Flat.   Haven’t signed up yet for the Rotorua marathon which is on 28th April,  Kate is thinking she may not, she is being sensible talking about letting her ankle heal up properly.  The whanau also went through a lot last weekend so hauling them off to Rotorua in 8 weeks tiime will take some thinking about too (maybe bribery/corruption).  Will start running on Sunday and see how it goes, hopefully being super-trained, and having had a whole week off, I might recapture just how great it can feel just to run for the sake of running without needing to extend the limits up, up, up.  Yet.