Dear readers,
welcome back on here. Ty for you and attention. That is from the time of the founders in our sport, valid for World Champions like Faris Al-Sultan, Normann Stadtler, valid for all, motivation at its purest!
Last week surgeons let me out, free, and like before I am on my own, but allowed to do any training until it hurts. We are finished, doctors said. And now the what about fellow man. First they said it is important to go out (December), to leave domicil, then aristocracy argued I can start and do win paralympics (January). Second, I trained with ex-PROs concerning swimming and was seen as a competitor and then, rival even, again (February) and now, it is like always, thus thrid, I am an IRONMAN and endurance athlete. But with new focus: just finish 226k instead of being fast at 226k.
Well, it is not easy to fight wheel-chair. I went out walking short distances, with little weights, like brining little trash of glas to recycling spot. Then I carried more heavy bags at home from supermarket and did exercises with weights at home. Push-up and sit-up followed. My belly became slim again after all the antibiotics. Weight drainded. Muscles got connected again, right arm and back. Then I went out for hiking, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 Kilometers. Then I went hiking with heavy back-back, 5, 10, 15 kilometers. Meanwhile swim-training is like before, three times a week, and cardio I can do by moutainbike 5, 10, 25 kilometers, too, with cargo-loader, e.g. I cycled next craftsman-market in order to buy a new deckchair and back with it 25 kilometers.
What is next?
Keeping slow pace, and continuity: world does reveal its marvels (here: fire salamander in the woods).
Next is to do start run-training. I already did a first unit, 1 kilometer barefeet on the tracks of high-school, very slow, not at any pain. Next is continuing gymnastics, stabilisation and working with weights cubic centimetre for cubic centimetre. Forward. Next are back-backing tours, uphill by feet, in the valley by mountainbike with cargo-loader. Next is to fight back to racing position on bike millimetre for millimetre. Next is good food, but beers also. Good old times in triathlon like doing the best at your personal challenge, but do not do self optimize like in business - or becoming a mere machine in our sports, like Jan Frodeno said recently about the youngers in our sports - but what my generation of triathletes knew from the founders and ancetors of our sports: hang loose.
My challenge is to compete 226k OstseeMan Glücksburg in August 2026. And rightly so. We will see, I have go for half-distance, but now, last week, doctors let me go, without any advices.
No comments:
Post a Comment