Meeting another old friend

Yesterday I met more of my old friends. This time I had a short session with Mr. Cortisone. So suck it up, hamstring.


In addition to the current month-long non-running period, I have had four flus in two months which has amplified my frustration with everything. But hey, tomorrow is always better, right?

Swimming, puncture and my dear old friend NSAID

On Sunday I ran 15 minutes. Every minute sucked ass. Hamstrings are still done. Luckily I can swim. On Saturday I was tired and angry so I did only a quick dip into to pool, but on Sunday I was slowing down the others during a session covering a mix of swim technique and sprints.


Before this nice afternoon I found myself kicked by my MTB after a puncture. Fortunately sweetie was willing to collect me (and my angry ass) from Lieto.


Now I changed my diet from food to liquid (Pepsi Max) and NSAIDs. Healthy as hell.

Roads are open

And still I'm not running nor riding outside. Actually, I'm not running at all currently. That makes me a happy person.

I no longer hate to swim

Really. A while ago I didn't even dare to imagine that some day I'd like to swim. But this has happened during last seven days. This doesn't imply that I'm faster than previously or anything like that. Instead, now I feel just fine when I jump into a pool. I haven't yet processed this so much, but I'm quite sure that this transformation is partially due to the triathlon crew of which I'm a proud member of. So thank you guys. In addition, a strained hamstring has amplified my willingness to whatever exercises which do not hurt my ass. Swimming is one of them. The other one is doing nothing.

Anyhow, I smashed my 2000m PR today. The previous was from last Saturday when I timed it for the first time. With regards to the forthcoming triathlon race I have had a plan according to which my race pace would be around 2:00min/100m. Today I swam 37:54 which equals with 1:53/100m. I have a running nose and sore throat so I'm pretty happy happy joy joy.

Today we also visited a triathlon event which was organized at Nummen Pyora. Nice, cosy event. I brought new goggles for open water swimming. 

Accordingly, today's soundtrack sounds something like this: