Another Lesson in Patience

This is a never ending lesson for me that started when I was a toddler. My parents bought a tape that sang

"Have patience,

Have patience,

Don't be in such a hurry,

When you don't have patience,

You only start to worry..."

I can still recite the entire song. We always laugh about how I would cry "I want my patience tape now!!" This is where it all began and 20 years later I'm still struggling!

After 2 hard crashes my doctors, coaches and I were impressed with my rapid healing. No cuts left, no bruises, strained ligaments getting better everyday, everything was coming good! The only problem was my intense fatigue.

Upon reflection, my head had been hurting since the day before Sydney. I do recall requesting a head only massage from our team massage therapist and thought nothing of it. With each day and each training session my headaches got worse, making me feel nauseous and dizzy. I felt really strange in Ishigaki and when forced to my knees 300m through a 400m interval on the track I realized maybe this wasn't just from the travel. Something was definitely wrong. Of course this was the one time Craig was away and in this situation (although I hate to admit this) without him I didn't know what to do. I knew I probably should not have finished but maybe I was just being soft? Luckily Daniela talked some sense into me and I stepped off the track.

I continued to struggle through swims and even a 5hr hilly ride. Again, I was lucky to have Daniela there. She pulled me along for the last hour and even stopped when we were 20mins from home because I wasn't sure I could make it without tipping over. Finally when almost unable to jog 30mins with Craig, I got to talk to him a bit about it and we have agreed to hold off training until I can see a doctor. Unfortunately it's the longest weekend EVER! Easter+Anzac equals 5 days of no business. It sounds like classic post concussion syndrome which would make sense because I hit my head pretty hard in Mooloolaba.

Whatever it is, I'm not right and training is not productive right now. It's SO FRUSTRATING! I finally had a winter completely free of all sickness and injury and now I've still found a way to be forced out of training! I slept 4hrs yesterday and 12hrs last night. Anyone who knows me knows I don't do rest very well, I'm already going crazy. All my cupboards are organized, boxes labelled AUS/EUROPE/HOME. Nails painted, hair straightened and I've got nowhere to be :) Luckily I have some great friends and have done a bit of coffee shop hopping with good company but there's only so much sitting and eating one can take!! Hopefully this rest ends soon!

Cafe Times.... we have far too many

Kane looks happy with his brekky choice

Lucky to have Dannie as my roomie/training buddy

Running with the Roos