and another 10k in the Bag, high time to start planning Triathlon and Co.

So today I did another 10km race, a Race which I really did not look forward too. This had several Reasons one of them was the Weather it has been now really cold windy and Wet here now for quite some time. it seems that all over Europe the Weather is playing up quite a bit and here in my Part of Ireland it is Cold and Wet. The second Reason was my experiences at last weekends 8km Trail race , to that one I was actually really looking forward,have done that one in the past and had really enjoyed it, this time I could not enjoy it because I literally was not able to breath properly.
I believe now this was caused by my Cat Hair allergy, until a couple of Days before i was together with Cats and beside getting a nasty rash on the skin it seems that it also had impacted my Airways.
I really like cats and would love to have one as a pet but guess that will not happen.
Anyway those Reasons and the also the fact that this 10k would be quite hilly was not encouraging, so rather grumpily this morning I drove to the Event and just wanted to get it done .
Here came the surprise, firstly I was glad that I was able to breath properly and secondly I realized I rather enjoyed the Race, yes it was still bitterly cold but it was not raining , so at the end i finished the 10k with my 2nd best finisher time over 10k , I'm still very slow but as said before don't really care about that.
I have in 2 weeks time my next Pulmonary Lung function Test and a month later a CT Scan to see if my Thyroids are still growing against my windpipe, I have the feeling they do, but I have to be patient now and see whats going on.
I have decided that this will not impact my Event Calendar 2013 , so now I really have to get my Triathlon Training together, not really easy in those Weather Condition's but at my first Sprint Triathlon of the Season could already be mid May and I'm seriously behind Training Schedule, nothing like a good old fright to get the Training going , works for me every time, also in the plan is a nice Adventure Race and taking part in several Cycling events.
And in August , 10th of August is the big Event , Olympic Distance Triathlon , will have to do a lot of work to do that one but the Training for that Event should help me to finally drop my Weight below 70 Kg /below 11 Stone ,I'm happy enough that i only have gained 1-2 kg over the last couple of weeks which is amazing considering that no Chocolate and no sweets are save when I'm around also I my Carb Portion of eating is far too high, I think the amount of sugary Carbs I'm eating is causing me some problems but it is really hard for me to reduce those Carbs in the current Weather, I just love far too much my Comfy food when the Wind is howling out there.
So next post will probably after my lung function test and after i have spoken again to the Alpha1 specialist, have some questions, curious about the answers ....