So, shortly after my last post, I got walloped by a rather bad sinus infection. And so, I spent about two weeks mostly unable to handle minimal daily activities, let alone training on top of that. The fact that it got super cold here and then warm, then super cold again was Not Helpful, as cold is one of the absolutely worst things for my asthma and flip-flopping weather is one of the worst things for my chronic sinusitis. Therefore, there was a giant chunk of January where nothing happened. I am largely over the infection- I have about three more days of antibiotics to go, but I'm only slightly congested and I can walk around and breathe and I don't need a 4 hour nap after doing such strenuous activities such as baking a batch of brownies anymore. Naps are still a good thing- I'm still getting tired pretty easily, but it's getting better and it'll go away probably by the end of next week.
Since it is still very cold (although, I think it's supposed to be more reasonable this week. Reasonable meaning "above freezing". I can't exercise outside if it's under about 45, but I can manage walking across a parking lot without coughing my head off and wheezing if it's around freezing. Below that is a crap shoot). Ahem. Since it is still very cold and since I am still getting tired easily, I am going to start back very, very slowly. I'm going swimming this week. It will suck mightily, probably, and I will want to cry because I can't do what I want to do (I will probably NOT cry. It's bad for the breathing). But I will do it. Swimming is the hard one- if I can do that, I can probably handle running and cycling. But, one thing at a time. I have about 8 weeks until Triathlon Day. I am really hoping that the base I've built up over the past 6 months will not have diminished too terribly much (I know 2 weeks or so is not a big deal for most folks. My lungs are not like most lungs) and that will get me through. Since it's probably going to take another 2 weeks or so to get up to anything resembling speed, that leaves about 6 weeks of focused training whereupon I should probably, like, do some cycling perhaps. I think it's doable- I just want to finish and that was well within my capabilities when I got sick.
But, man, if that wasn't really frustrating.
