Myco and a vacuuming recovery

I felt a bit dizzy after the sunday's workout (the swim, see previous post), and that continued to monday and tuesday. Finally on Wednesday I had to stay home from work as I had some fever and was reeeeaaallllyyyyy tired. And that continued through Thursday and Friday.
Well. In hindsight, I guess all this could a bit be expected. On Monday my wife called me, as she had been to the doctor and they had found out she had mycoplasma. We don't know how long she's had it, but it is supposed to be the kind of germ that doesn't go off easily. She had been feeling a bit tired for a while (she also trains, she's going to participate a 70.3 in June so she needs to :D) and couldn't kind of shake it off after two weeks, so we decided it was time to see a fycisist. A funny thing is that, when she was leaving the office for the doc-appointment, her co-worker said her:"you know, all these athletes are always having this wierd mycoplasma thingie that keeps them a bit tired etc. Maybe you have that?" And my wife was thinking that "yeah, right I don't think so", and guess what (well, you don't need to anymore as I said it already), that's what she had. And a sinus infection, which is apparently quite common partner there.
As said, I got the info of my better half having the myco, and she also got the anibiotics etc. for that, and decided I'd need to see a doctor also (myco is highly contagious, so the odds were that I had it too). So I got a time for Thursday to go to the lab and see if I have it too. But I was not at the office on Thursday so I had to reschedule (the office is 56 kms away and the doc is there too so...). So I still don't know if this my whatever is actually myco or not. I'll see that on Monday I hope.
Anyway, training after last Sunday has not happened. And as always, now as I'm getting a bit better I'm starting to get bad conscious about it. Some little guy wearing lycra and tank-top in my head is telling me that if I'm able to walk, I should do some training. Or a long ride. Or a marathon. Or... So as I'm still a bit weak, I too often budge for this little guy and start training too early. And the flu or whatever sticks for even more time. But this time, yesterday, I think I tricked the lycra-leprechaun. First I started to recollect that in some discussions with my wife we had talked about housekeeping being a low-intensity workout (especially vacuuming). And then I started to think that now as I'm recovering from this sickness, I need a low-int workout. So instead of doing a full training ride indoors, I vacuumed the house (45 minutes). And trust me, in this fitness it was well enough.
Now, as I write, the wifee is actually having a morning ride (it's Saturday 7:15 am here) on the trainer and watching the Graham Norton Show, so she's getting better. I'm still a bit lethargic, but I think that today's cookie-baking, christmas-shopping and christmas-pie making with the whole family will recover me fully so I could actually do something tomorrow trainingwise. But let's see...

Swimming for change

Yesterday was interesting. It was the first sunday after August that I did not have to wake up at 7:00 to go and run the "swim technique for adults" course at the local pool. This, however did not mean that I'd spend my day out of the local swimming hall. Quite the contrary, I had a meeting with a local triathlete team and gave them some tools on how to improve the technique, talked with them on how their cycling club and the swim-club I represent could co-operate more, went back home to fetch my daughter to her swim training session, and then ended up training in the pool for 1,5 hours (without lunch = last kick session got halved). A nice day, but tiring.

For starting your swim-training, I can really recommend Sheila Taormina's training pack, the one with water-resistant "pages". It akes the thinking away from the preparations for the training, just jump in the pool and follow Sheila's pre-set sets. And trust me, those training sets are enough :)

Lets see if I'm ready for some trainer-ride today even if yesterday was a bit taxing...

Mobile thought burst

A first try-out with the mobile editor, maybe this could serve as a quicker way to put the messages and thoughts forward...

Today I've been thinking a lot on how to proceed with all the arrangements already now. I have decided that we'll go to Eidford with a mobilehome (truck), probably rented, but everything else, and I mean EVERYTHING else is still quite foggy. I'll need some good long rides, runs and skii... ...how is that supposed to be said? A skiing training session, how do you call it? A ski? Well, whatever, as said, I'm expecting the long steady training sessions to bring me some ideas on all the other stuff (gearing, equipment, own support to name a few). They have before, and they will this time too :)

Preparations started, also trained a bit

A month later I might be able to write some sensible text, but I will not force it, so from this point on, the resposibility lies on you, dear reader :)
Since the day I received the announcement I've been pretty much training. Mostly trainer-rides and runs, but also some swimming. I'm now eagerly awaiting for the snow to come, the skis are awaiting in the shed to be abused hard :D Last winter I did a couple of really good 3-hour ski-trips (and ofcourse plenty of shorter-ones), and I really fell in love again to the classic-style CX-skiing. It is a really good way to keep your whole body in shape and get some fresh air and even real speed under your skin every once-in-a-while (assuming you have good steep hills nearby).
I am still in the belief that I will be the first Finn to ever participate Norseman, and I've tried to think if that could be something that would have even marketable value. This is still in really early stage, but some thoughts about what I could actually provide as a value for a sponsor I already have. That'll need some serious thinking though, and probably some analysis also through the Lean startup model for which I use Leanstack.
I have also started to activate my network. I have some contacts through which I could get some support on getting my training tweaked so that I'll actually be able to do the distance (and I mean distance in wider sense, both horizontal, vertical and mental level). I've also contacted the local cycling-clubs triathlon-team, and will be joining them ASAP as I can get my calendar fitting their training schedule.
And, if I'm bold enough, I also have a connection to the national cycling-triathlon magazine, so maybe that could also be a possibility here. However I still need to keep my feet on the ground and concentrate on the training and keep all the other stuff as add-on and not the other way around.