Sunday 23 January 2011

Whats in 2011 then?

Happy to say that even though training has taken a slight back seat I have steadily and carefully trained my right hip back into full function. If I sit around and don't do exercise then it tightens up and gets a bit crunchy - but then so does the rest of me! I'm all set to revisit the short but hard and fast distance of sprint triathlons this year. 400-750m swim, 20K Bike, 5K Run. Ouch! The benefit of doing long distance is that you don't have to go that hard or that fast, just steady away for a long time.

Heading off this morning to meet an old personal training client for a run around the beautiful reservoir of Fewston and Swinsty. Am running really comfortably at the moment and feeling my fitness improve.

I teach a turbo class (like spinning but with a road bike on a stand) every Wednesday and we always do single leg drills at the start. It used to trash my back to do my right leg with my left leg unclipped from the pedal pre-op and now its good. I've still got a deficit of skill in that leg but hopefully by end of April when the classes stop I'll be just as good right and left and kick some cycling ass this summer.

Having said that I've also been dealing with internal health issues along side mechanical ones. I started to feel dodgy around 2007 and got really tired. I put it down to working too hard but it was getting ridiculous, even when I rested I didn't refresh. Over 3 years later I have discovered that I had picked up a bug from the water called Giardia and it has been a chronic infection which has totally exhausted my adrenal glands and my gut. I have got heavily into training to treat people with nutritional therapy, food intolerance testing, lab testing for bugs and functional problems, and as from December have embarked on a training course to qualify in Naturopathic Medicine. It will take 5 years, but I feel I'm so on the right path.I also qualified as a CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach late last year. And hope to reignite my trainings as an NLP Master Practitioner.

So this year is littered with lots of study time, some training time, working hours as business is crazy busy and all through this maintaining eating well and sleeping well and seeing my buddies. Keeping balance is my number 1 goal :D