I am not sure if you mean you want to adopt me or be adopted by my parents? Being adopted by my parents would be a better way to go! They are an amazing support crew. They came out to Melbourne to watch and were everywhere on race day. My mom can reel off the stats and PB's of almost every pro and my dad has multiple sheets of paper with race splits and calculations that he uses to determine how I am doing and where they need to be to best cheer me on.
I don't remember doing too much recovery in the recovery area. I think like most people we let our guard down after an Ironman. Ideally I would have like to get a massage, eat some greasy food. But what I actually did was report to drug testing, drank a coke, had a G.I. shower and did as many interviews as I could. As I told one reporter, "let's get it done now, because it will sink in my tomorrow and I'll might become a total jerk. I do like hanging out in the recovery area afterward to swap war stories with fellow athletes. I say athletes becasue I don't like segregating age groupers and pros. We are all the same and all go through the same thing and have great stories to tell! That is what makes are sport so amazing! I did get to see fellow Vancouverite Brendan Naef finish in a huge PB of 8:49 which was pretty cool as well. One of my best memories of the race was coming back to recovery area later that night and listening to story of an elementry and high school Jon Gresl, friend who completed his first Ironman. he and 5 friends trained in in through a real Canadian winter in Fort McMorray to do the race and hearing there stories just reminded me what Ironman racing is all about.
The week after I didn't do too much. It was swamped with doing interviews and thank you and slowtwitching and what not. I was able to get for a swim on the Tuesday after the race which was awesome for getting things moving. I flew out form Melbourne at 11:30pm on Wednesday and it was a 31 hour trip through China. I was pretty tired from that so didn't do too much training. but did get another swim and a bike and run in that week. I got in to see my Physiotherapist Sean Campbell when I got back to Vancouver to make sure I was alright biomechanically from the race. During the next week I did a light activity on thing a day. During this time I don't feel like I need to be training but rather I just love swimming biking and running. And even more so when you don't feel like you need to be doing it. Just doing it purely for fun. I did eat a few burgers during that first week. I also make sure I do things that I neglect or wouldn't do during a hard training phase to mentally recover.
It is now three weeks since the race and post race stuff has finally died down and I have started back into a structured training program.
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