Papa’s gotta brand new bag!

I’m back from New Mexico now. My fever is coming and going, but I’m still not sure exactly what kind of bug I have.  I spoke to Coach Brooks after the meet and have decided to stop training for 7-10 days and just give myself a rest.  I just pushed, pushed, pushed during Indoors to try to get in shape fast and I think it’s time to just back off and recover a bit.  I still can’t believe 1) how far I’ve come so fast and 2) how completely untimely getting stick was.

Once I recover a bit emotionally (from losing) and physically, I’m going to formulate a plan for Outdoors. I’m interested in getting ready for the 800m, but the 1600m as well.  I’ll also be racing the 400m as much as possible as I think this might be a new event for me to seriously consider.

So I will return to altitude because I believe Colorado Springs has been a very good place for me, but I will also have to consider a place that is at much lower elevation (to focus on speed endurance/speed training).

Everyone seems to be very suprised by my comeback and thrilled to see it. I’m happy about it also and can’t deny how far I’ve come since being diseased and to have just started training  just this past Winter, but I just hate to lose. So right now it’s hard to be happy about it, even though I’m VERY thankful for figuring out how to recover from my illness and do have a new lease of life….”Papa’s gotta brand new bag!” 

Thanks to Coach Cianelli at VT for allowing me to race a bunch during Indoors. It was instrumental in helping me gain my confidence back and getting me used to being on the track again.