Gorgeous day but negative something silly!!
As I mentioned before it's really hard being on the road by yourself. Enhanced with language barriers and visiting places you haven't been to before and then there's the competing. No coach, no support it's not easy, and sometimes quite hard. No one to talk with about the exciting experiences or take your photo at a prize giving and no one to talk to when things just aren’t going so well.
Watching the Men’s Olympic finals was a little sad as it was only me, my alarm having just gone off at 2.30am and no one to celebrate / commentate/ discuss scores and performances and overall enjoy watching many of our friends and team mates compete.
But that is what I've chosen so time to take a cup of concrete and toughen up :)
After my last Europa Cup in Himos Finland I had two nights staying with Isabella in Helsinki. The first day after a couple days of competing if one is not travelling the best thing to do is – nothing. Sleeping in and everytime it’s surprising how tired one can be. Lounging around the house, napping and quick trip into Helsinki whilst Issie was in class was a totally exhausting day! The next day prior to flying out I managed to do what I had hoped to do the last two times here – ice swimming!! It’s great recovery for muscles and after a busy competition schedule this sounded like just thing to help prepare for a long haul flight. Never mind it was -6, snowing and blowing a gale but we bit the bullet and crazily stripped down to not much and took turns pretending we were enjoying ourselves whilst splashing surrounded by ice and blustering snow in our faces.
- note the facial expressions of enjoyment
No comments:
Post a Comment