Ironman Lake Placid in 16 days
10 07 2009All is still going well, but not perfect by any means.
I had a bit of a scare last week. My left calf and Achilles got sore after my race at Welland once I got home. This soreness lasted 3 days. Needless to say I did no running those days. I was a bit apprehensive during my first run back but I was soon clicking the kms away effortlessly at a fairly quick pace.
Cranked out a 165 km bike ride last weekend and ran 24.5km a few days ago. These are the last big sessions before Ironman Lake Placid in a few weeks. I am so amped to get back at it. No real expectations other than being strong throughout, enjoying myself and be able to be out there (unlike last year of course). Whatever the result, I will be happy.
As always, happy healing to all.
If you are interested in this sort of thing, here is a report from my last race.
http://www.teamrunningfree.com/blog/2009/06/29/the-welland-double/
Um, you’re beyond awesome. Have a good race, Iron-ATR-man.
Tamar
Best of luck to you. After what the past year was like this should seem like your reward for perservering and enduring the daily drudergy of rehab and crawling back into the fray.
Thanks Tamar and Bob! Hardly awesome though. Just kept plugging away for a year, saw that light at the end of the tunnel and worked towards getting to where I am today. It is not 100% yet but pretty close. As I said, I am grateful to be back at it. I will take any improvement on past performance as gravy.