Another Race another Day and another Problem ?

Yesterday was another Trail Race, a 8km  Trail Race which I did last Year as well , last Year I finished last in that Race . So the Goal of course was to improve on this and I Improved it ,  I still ended up on the lower end ( 10th last in fact ) but not being  last and having 9 People behind ,me, plus quite a few non finishers is something . I also improved by around 5-6 minutes on the Time, however I can't really 100 Percent compare the Times , since the Course was a tiny bit different.
Next weekend will be the First 10km Road Run in 2012 ( So far every race I did was either on Trail or Beach or something like that ) . Will be interesting to see how that one goes.
Anyway all this is not my main Problem at the moment , as I mentioned in an earlier Post during a lung CT Scan they actually found out that my Thyroids are growing seemingly downwards in direction of my Lungs.
I'm booked for a ultrasounds in a couple of weeks time, but to be honest , by now the Panic Mode has nearly arrived. The Internet is great and fabulous Place but sometimes it gives an Amateur far too many information's, so reading up on this type of Thyroid issue I found some rather nasty possibilities and these are :
Best option : I'm a hypochondriac and nothing is wrong
Second best option :  Yes, Thyroids are a problem but that easily fixed with Tablets
Third option ( now we come to the nastier stages ) : the Thyroids need to be removed ( not a funny Idea with something that is in direct Neighborhood  to my Lungs and Airwaves )
Last Option is the Option that starts with the Letter "C"  , absolutely refuse to even think about that one.
Strangely enough since I have been told that my Thyroids are enlarged, I'm of course far more aware of my  "internals" and I really hope that in this Case I'm a Hypochondriac  and I Imagine the Symptoms.
I think I have a small problem swallowing, I have the feeling quite often that something is stuck down my throat. So if I imagine this, that would be fabulous , if I don't imagine it, then please let it be fixed with some tablets.
I will try to push all this into the back of my mind , it will not help if I make myself crazy , so I need to wait for the facts and Data . I usually function much better when I have Facts. Then I know where I'm at and what I have to do to fix problems , so to be able to do this I will try to keep up my Training and Race regime and with my Triathlon in June looming I better keep that up. There is of course this small voice in my Head that tells me that I will not be able to do these Races because of Health issues. So to my small little Voice, just shut up , I'm the Boss  and not the Couch Potato or any other small Voices. So training is a must. Happy Swimming , Cycling and running .....

First Adventure race finished

today was the Day , Today was Adventure Race Day and I did it, and finished it , really proud of myself.
Here is a summary of today's Pre Race , Race and the Rest of it.

The Day started early , very early indeed, I had to get up at 5:30 in the morning to get to the Race on time.I had been told that I had to bring my Bike into Transition Area by latest 7:45 even though my Race wave only started at 10:40.
 That was a very long and cold wait for me. The Weather in the morning was absolutely horrendous, we had Rain, Snow, Sleet and actually rather heavy Thunder and lighting.
So I asked myself, more than once what the heck I was doing out there and my little Voice which I like to call Couch Potato tried to convince me more than once, to go home but  I stayed on, and so my Race started.
 I did the shortest available Race option, which started with a 5Km Trail run , thank goodness by that time the Weather had actually improved ,after the 5km it was onto the Bicycle , roughly a 14km Trip down to a lake and here came the nasty bit .  A 1.5km Kayak stage on  rather choppy Water .
I was drenched within minutes and I was also getting cramps in my Legs and to top that off , at the end of the Kayak trip I had no choice other than to step into the Freezing Water to get to the shore.
So I had nice little Ice blocks instead of feet for the Rest of the Race. Now we had to cycle back the stretch we just came, I have to say my legs were in bits and I was not sure how I would be able to do the last bit, which was a 3 km run. On the Cycling stretch I actually was able to take over quite a few of the other Competitors of my Wave, but they all caught me on the last running bit. My legs just couldn't take anything else, so that meant I finished the Race and I finished it last in my Category. That is not bothered me at all, I'm just really happy  I did it and i finished it.
Will I do it again , to be honest not  sure , the atmosphere in those kind of Races is strange, it is not as cheerful as I know it from other types of Races, that might have been down to the Weather but I think it has more to do with the type of Race.
I will see , final Judgement certainly had not yet fallen on that. Now I will need a couple of Days recovery and then I need to get back into my Triathlon Training

Races and lung function test result

so today was my Lung function test and I'm very happy with the Results, no real change to last Year and that's good news , actually really good news. For me this means the hard work I did put into this Body over the last year has paid off ,so Exercise and Weight loss was and is the Key. Which means what I have started, I have to continue and if possible even improve on .
The only strange result was, the one from the CT scan of the Lung ,they could see my Thyroids and they were larger than normal. So I had to give today some blood and they will do an ultrasound of the Thyroids, to see if anything is wrong .
 It could be nothing or it could be something really nasty. I will try not to make myself crazy until I really know what the story is, the funny note on this I could blame that issue on Weight Gain . However i will not do that , I know that my eating habits have caused my overweight.
That was that ,on the other note I did another 10k Race last Saturday , it was a real Trail Race and it started on the Beach , I was practically last after 300m and I stayed there , the last km of the Race was again on Beach / Pebbles and  I was cramping like crazy . It took me 1hr and 17 minutes to finish the Race, I finished 3rd last and no I don't really mind that .
I have learned again, something from this race, I will try to put in some Beach running into the trainings program.
That reminds me Trainings Program, before the change from Winter to Summer time it was not a problem for me to get up in the Morning and do either running or swimming.
At the moment I'm a Zombie like creature in the early morning so I have not done a lot of Morning exercise , which means I haven't done much exercise overall
But I will restart this as soon as my Body gets used to the Summertime, I will not force it, it will come automatically
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