Heaven on earth

Hello!

I ve decided to write my blog in english due to my followers which have difficulties with my german ;-)

It has been quite silent since Ironman Hawaii - as everybody knows - my body simply quit afterwards. So the Hawaii aftermath was a tremendous mental and physical challenge for me.

I could not run, could just bike with a lot of pain which pulled out every motivation out of me. For nine months, I cant believe it!.

Which - lucky me - has ended yesterday! (at least I hope so).

Yesterday I ran - oh man - that felt soooo good.

I heard the monotone sound of my shoes tapping on the groung, I felt my sweat, I smelled the beautiful air, I enjoyed the scenery of beatiful lower Austria! I am happy, so happy I cant find words to describe my emotions.

Ok, still I am very slow and it will take a lot of time and effort to get a basic muscular and fitness foundation. And my muscles are really weak and my bones hurt and I am way overweight (thus I dont show a current picture ;-)!

But hey, all these problems can be solved!

But now nothing can stop me anymore - my motivation is back.

Gotta watch out that I be patient enough in setting my daily, weekly, monthly and yearly goals.

So - lessons learned:

1) Listen to your body! If it says stop - stop

2) Integrate strenght training into my training routine more effectively

3) Run! More than the last years

4) Keep my core work - it was the foundation for the good bike and run performance (if I was able to do so)

5) Increase swim time (I know... I promise)

6) Set a realistic goal

7) Be patient....

So I end this blog with my goals:

1) I want to attend a half distance race in 2012 (if not - so what)

2) I want to finish Ironman Australia 2012 or Ironman Austria 2013 (lets see)

3) I want to finish Ironman Hawaii - date unknown (but hell yeah - I will be there again!)

The good thing: I dont have to show off.

I can take my time. I was so lucky, attending several Ironmans including Hawaii, several Triathlons and bike races, runnning events etc.

Now I can do all this - just for me. What an exciting feeling.

Oh - I cant wait getting on my bike, tying my running shoes or put on my swim gear enjoying sports.

Today - I love my life!

See you out there training, racing, recover!

Watch out - I am back!

Cheers

Norbert