Ok so it's not the worst thing that ever happened to a person, but I've been off training for 6 weeks and counting with infective mononucleosis. I'm on the mend but need to be careful in my recovery to avoid a relapse, so my season is essentially over.
My haomoglobin is low, so I basically have no fitness. I had been working my ass off this last year with really limited free time (young kids) trying to get back into race fitness after a bit of a break, and was finally heading towards some PB form. I feel like a novelist who spent 12 months writing my best book yet only to drop my briefcase and watch all the pages blow away into a river.
So I'm basically being grumpy and feeling sorry for myself. My peers don't understand, because they don't know what it takes to do this training we all do.
And.... my liver function is compromised so I CAN'T EVEN DRINK BEER.
Please tell me that there are a great many people much worse off than I am, and that I should stop being a whinging wuss. It would also be useful if you reminded me that I'm no longer burning an additional 1000 calories a day, and to put the chocolate bar down.
Thanks.
My haomoglobin is low, so I basically have no fitness. I had been working my ass off this last year with really limited free time (young kids) trying to get back into race fitness after a bit of a break, and was finally heading towards some PB form. I feel like a novelist who spent 12 months writing my best book yet only to drop my briefcase and watch all the pages blow away into a river.
So I'm basically being grumpy and feeling sorry for myself. My peers don't understand, because they don't know what it takes to do this training we all do.
And.... my liver function is compromised so I CAN'T EVEN DRINK BEER.
Please tell me that there are a great many people much worse off than I am, and that I should stop being a whinging wuss. It would also be useful if you reminded me that I'm no longer burning an additional 1000 calories a day, and to put the chocolate bar down.
Thanks.