Nearly well, and about time

Two and a half weeks later, and IÂ'm nearly over the lurgy. Not entirely, but enough to be planning on riding tomorrow.

IÂ've been swimming for a week, and a very poor, inefficient swim this morning had one major upside in proving that my body is ok for being under stress, out of breath, working hard and surviving without feeling too grim. So IÂ'm really looking forward to riding my bike! IÂ've missed it! A steady to moderate 1.5 Â- 2 hours would be ideal.

Hopefully IÂ'll feel no worse for it, as my half ironman is now beginning to loom somewhat in the mind. 6 weeks tomorrow, and two weeks of no training was not quite what I had planned for this point. I got in a really solid couple of months from November, so IÂ'm really hoping the endurance will have held. If IÂ'm well enough to get going properly next week IÂ'm hoping IÂ'll be okay, though I have had to do a little backscaling of expectations for the race, which is probably no bad thing given itÂ's my first attempt over the distance.

A few momentary panics aside I think IÂ've done okay at dealing with the time off (boyfriend may disagree), so that's an improvement on last year's enforced month off at least!