So my easy week started like any other - catching up on the sleep following the BIG week I had just pushed out! Training volume was going to be low - just 12 hours - and the majority of sessions were either to be easy or very easy effort! Music to my ears!! But it would seem that the mystical powers that be had other plans for my easy week!!It is not news to many of you that I usually get tonsillitis 9 days out from any big race and that I generally spend my taper week frantically trying to get rid of it with antibiotics, herbal potions and ice blocks (the latter not clinically proven to be an effective treatment for tonsillitis I might add)!! Over the last 9 months I have had 8 super sized doses of tonsillitis that have put me in front of my GP to get the usual prescription for industrial sized antibiotics! It was on a visit in January just before the Tauranga Half Ironman that my GP decided enough was enough and it was time to have the pesky things removed! So after an appointment with an ENT surgeon it was deemed that I did meet the criteria for having them taken out (yay me!) and I got a date through for mid August! Not perfect timing with Kona in early October but better than the risk of goodness knows how many more antibiotic munching episodes between now and then! I did sign up for the cancellation list i.e someone who is planned for surgery cancels and they call you to fill the slot, but never in a million years did I think I would be 'so lucky' as to get the call!!
So on Tuesday afternoon I got 'the call' to say could I do this week! Minor meltdown as I have a small (actually make that large) fear of anaesthetics (probably something to do with working in intensive care) but the timing even I had to reluctantly admit couldn't have been better and you only get one shot at the cancellation list so it seemed silly not to take it! So I endured a 12 hour night shift being teased by my work colleagues about having a tonsillectomy - which obviously included absolutely everything that could possibly go wrong with it and to add to the torture I wasn't allowed to eat after 4am as I was having my tonsils out that morning! Imagine trying to get through the last 3 hours of a night shift without any munchies!!! I rest my case!
However 7am soon rocked around - I handed over my patient - swapped a pair of scrubs for a theatre gown and before I had time to recount the horror stories of the night I was being wheeled into theatre and put into a drug induced sleep! It was all over within 40 minutes and by just after lunch I was back at home being force fed ice blocks and smoothies (and perhaps the odd scoop or two of ice cream!!).
I had managed to squash most of my sessions for the week in before the tonsils came out so I didn't feel too guilty laying on the couch for a couple of days to recuperate! I rather ambitiously rocked up to interval run training 3 days after my tonsils came out - hit a big wall of that was stupid around 25 minutes in and then proceeded to become reacquainted with the sofa again for another day!! I have only missed one 60 minute bike session for the week so all in all pretty happy with the effort!
I have managed to get stuck back into the gym this week! Oh yes me and the heavy round things have been working hard......I'm turning into the incredible hulk!!!
Next week it's back into the big yards so hopefully I will have recovered enough to get stuck back into things! I'm sure the odd ice block or two will help to ease me gently back in!! I've got the Western Springs Run Auckland 10km race next Sunday so fingers crossed I will be fired up ready for that!
Until next time .................................
You are hardcore!!!
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