When did it become October? Clearly I’m behind on monthly
goals. Let’s review last month shall we…
- Finish my first 70.3 – YAY done! My first half
complete!
- Do I really need more than that? Fine, what
else… - I still don’t think I needed to do anything beyond this.
- Make peace with my current abilities – I think I
did this before the race. Maybe struggling a bit afterwards but I’m trying. (Really
Katie I’m trying!)
- But! keep the fire burning to further my
abilities – Ok this has been a roller coaster. Right after the race I was super
amped up with “I can’t wait to fix this” and “get better at that” and then that
all went away while I was enjoying recovery and I didn’t really care how hard I
pushed myself. Now I’m back up, maybe not as high as I should be though.
- Eat, drink and sleep like I don’t give a shit.
AFTER my race. – I did this whole heartedly for 2 days? I continued to eat like
“crap” for 1 week. Apparently I don’t know how to completely not give a shit.
The end of the month was a frustrating one due to
shoulder pains. The pain seems to be flaming out of control on weekends so
still trying to figure out what makes it suddenly so much worse but I’ve
narrowed it down to 3 possibilities. Detective work to continue. The original
cause is most likely my screwed up swim stroke. (That and how I sleep since the
pain is worst while sleeping.) Apparently while in the progress of trying to
improve my stroke I somehow made it worse? I now have bicipital tendinitis in
both shoulders… yay for me!
This has killed my time in the pool which is making me
sad. After having almost a week off it felt so good to get back in the pool
even if it was for such a short time. Unfortunately with the pain still very
much there in both shoulders I don’t know when I’ll be able to get back to
normal swimming. And it was just starting to get good! I had longer swims on my
schedule! The good news is I leave this week for a cruise. Yes another one, my husband’s
family this time. Hopefully a week of limited swimming due to lack of pool will
help it heal. Until then it’s trips to physical therapist/torture man. I’m
guessing it will be needles today because I can’t imagine how he’d use “the
tool” on my shoulder. I shudder to think.
So let’s see, October goals. I’m going to make this a
theme month, the theme being food. With a cruise coming up how can the theme
not be food?
- Make weekly meal plans
- Actually follow meal plans
- Eat lots of greens or at least one green every
day
- Don’t go crazy on the cruise… round two, let’s
try to actually do it this time!
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