Back at it.

After about a week of recovery time and some half-hearted random training last week, I'm ready to get back to it. I hit the trainer hard this morning as a beginning to some good, solid, consistent training.

Most of the swelling in my mouth is gone, but there still some discomfort and not everything is totally healed-up, but enough. I'm feeling comfortable about getting back in the pool this evening although I'm going to be conscious about not getting too much of the water in my mouth.

It feels good to have this out of the way and eliminate at least one potential pitfall for the season. You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone, as they say, and that goes for training too. Sometimes it feels like a grind, but when you can't do it, you miss it. A lot. Or at least I do.

Oh also, I managed to pack on 3+ pounds with liquid calories (smoothies) and no exercise. So, so much for losing weight! I have my work cut out for me.

Training Interrupted

Well, I'm out for a bit. I had my two lower wisdom teeth removed early Friday morning. Here it is Sunday, and I'm getting more swollen every day. I was SURE that I wouldn't swell up this bad. This was something I'd been avoiding for more than a decade and had I known, I still might not have done it. Both were severely impacted, laying horizontally in my jaw and pushing up and under the molars in front of them. I don't even want to know what they had to do to get them out. It had to be done though. Those teeth had threatened to interrupt training in the past and I just couldn't have that this year. So, I decided to get them yanked when they'd have the least impact on my season. I don't know when I'll get back on track. Swimming seems out of the question, running like all bouncing cheeks and pain, and cycling like just a bad idea given the chance of crashing. In fact, I'm worried about exerting myself at all for fear that something will burst! Oh well, maybe I'll lose some of the off-season weight gain.