7 days in:
It’s hard to talk about my detox, or my life in general right now outside of my athletics and my clients.
Today I ran an hour with the dogs, this is a relaxed run, I worked primarily on cadence. For some reason my cadence has dropped. Which is weird because 180 rpms feels so natural and good.
The dogs are getting in better shape. Mojo made the mistake of taking off and running with an Ironman…instead of me for a few minutes. I laughed cause he looked like a chocolate lab ‘Dumbo’. I told him to heal back, and then, well, after about 45 minutes it was all he could do to hold on.
Molly…well, she could go 20 miles I’m sure.
I then went to the pool to swim. Today, I own that I have to drop my pool swims back to twice a week, and do one day of drills, and another day long with some sprints.
We were out on the trail for almost 4 hours yesterday. We rode Tunnel to Otero. It was tiring. I got my first flat ever on tubeless, Bontrager suck! Apparently more than the UST Crossmarks, which have no traction.
So last night, I lay awake…I felt just awake. Like a weird kind of awake. Like the feeling of restlessness that is generally described with over training. It was awful.
Then, we had a monkey break down about a shoe that ended in a howling match and a lesson about ACCOUNTABILITY. That was awful too.
Let’s just say I need a full body compression and tight and I”m not even sure if that will help.
I went to the pool after my run today, watched my video. I went from having my head to high, to having it totally submerged into water. To learning I have no ‘tick tock 6:00. I have a long way to go.
The mountain bike ride was AWESOME. It was made up of: Rose, kickin ASS soon to be 54 year old. Jen, super awesome putting up with me, new girl, and then we met, Tanya, World Champion Ironman…Interesting group. I opted out of taking my phone. Which I could have kicked myself because taking up the rear with 3 super cool chicks in helmets in Camelbaks…just makes the line of work I do AWESOME!
Sunday I raced; Patriot Triathlon. Put on by an old classmate of mine. Ironically enough, I ran into her at packet pick up, same energy, same girl, didn’t re-introduce myself. Sometimes it may be better to remain incognito. All morning, I was choking back vomit, I had the other end too. It was awful.
This whole detox thing is awful. I was 4 days in at that point.
The swim:
The worst swim I have ever done in my life. I have done some real difficult swims, open water, 2 miles, 6 to 8 foot swells, 5 different species of sharks, rivers with ice…
This one:
The worst.
I swallowed more water than I ever have in my life. My first 100 was smooth. then, it was all over. I was grabbing the wall, feeling over whelmed, lost, and confused. I managed about a 12th place finish overall on the swim.
I got out, and was equally confused in transition, got on the bike, and headed out.
I felt pretty good, went as fast as I could below the vomit threshold. And did my best to choke down some kind of carbohydrate. I had about 12th place overall finish on the bike.
My run, just average. The course, was up, up, up…then, down, down, down. I felt just OK.
I got a 6th place age group and a 14th overall. Not bad.
My 3rd day of detox was nausea and and and cluster headaches.
My 2nd day of detox, was dark spots, dizziness, and brain fry headache.
My first day of detox, was migraine and couch.
I just keep going, no matter what. Just dealing with whatever toxins are still in my system.
My skin texture is totally changing.
My skin is healing, my gut is healing, my symptoms of misery are getting further and further apart to a lesser degree.
I can’t wait until it’s over!
I did learn, don’t race when you’re detoxing from massive chemical exposure.
I did have a great time.
I did see Kimmie.
My broken toe still hurts. Looks worse today, then, it has…I can’t tell, does my toe hurt, or does my jaw hurt, does when my jaw hurt, my toe no hurt and when my toe hurts does my jaw not hurt?!?
All I know is I want a clean house,
I want full body compression ,
Tomorrow is a new day, thank God.
I love new days.