Hello my followers wha ha ha ha (I love saying that) Shame on me for not posting for a few days, but I must confess that I have been extremely busy. After Saturday's long run, I had to attend 2 children's party's for my kids, had a family dinner, planted flowers, became worried as my son got sick with strep (or possible scarlet fever), tried to tackle the never-ending laundry pile, did some work on a movie set.....the list goes on.
Yes life is busy, and training must somehow fit in there. Since I elected to take my rest day yesterday, I went swimming this morning. I now purposely leave my fins at home to wean myself from the dependency. At first it was really hard getting used to the freestyle without them, but I managed 2000 meters today and felt good. I now have to get serious about the wetsuit, and will put it on today for an hour. Since we do not have air conditioning, and it is quite warm in the house already, I am psyching myself up for sweating perfusely. I just hope no one comes to the door as getting the wetsuit off (or on) is well....not that easy.
As far as training goes, this week looks wicked. It's the hardest training prior to a regeneration week. Once again my nerves are getting to me about Tuesday as it is the long course duathalon that I will be doing. I have no idea of how to pace myself, and hope that I will not burn out in the race! I know that I tend to go out hard and this has backfired on my when running races as once you cross that lactate threshold, it is very difficult to compose and carry forward. Ahh... I guess it just means more experimentation!
Oh and I found out why I am still struggling with fatigue-my iron is still low! As such, I have FAITHFULLY been taking it and seem to have rebounded some. The problem with Iron, as some of you might know-is that it can be constipating. Wait a minute......I think I have just solved my ahem pooping delima on the bike! Hey Sis what do you think? Should I double up on the iron before the ironman? Must look into this more!
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In between being a mom, wife, daughter, sister, chef, chauffeur, laundress, actor, gardener, teacher, student, friend and all around inspiration? Ugh, I'm tired just reading this post. Just over six months ago you almost blew out a lung swimming 20 metres and now you're swimming 2 KILOMETRES!
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Hey Donna, I check on you every now and then. and was reading this post and wanted to offer some help with the iron. I have an iron water at the store that is truly just that. It is water that is naturally high in iron. My Dad, who can get severely anaemic (we are talking in the double digits) takes it and it had help tonnes! It doesn't cause any digestive upset or anything. Just thought I would pass the info on. Email me if you want more info or come down to the store and I will show it to you.
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