I've had to give up a trip to Botswana in order to train here, and in a way I have given up a trip to Cape Town since I have to balance the expense of going there and the time consumed preparing for the race, with other expenses related to the Ironman and the fact that I could do a 100km race here in Bloemfontein.
I am having handlebars made now, with SDI's, which means you can change the gears on the brakelevers. This will make my bike compatible with cycling regulations, and I can race in ordinary bicycle races here. There are a few coming up. But it will set me back R1 650.
The good news is the Rand has just taken a tumble, and suddenly all the ATM's everywhere have frozen, so I can't draw my money from Korea where I will obviously get more bang for my buck. The Rand went from about R5.95 to the $, to R6.14 overnight, which is a 10% change. That's huge.
More than all this are the kilometres. It takes a special kind of person (er...like me) to get up at 5am and cycle 140/160/190km) voluntarily. That's a long time, alone on roads that are also oftentimes dangerous.
Why do it? To see how the body, mind and spirit responds. To explore my own Personal Power. So that everything I do I can compare to this, and say, Hey, this is nothing. Remember the Ironman.
The prognosis in terms of my foot looks good. The swelling, the bump living in my calf tissue has softened, and become smaller, and the pain has lessened a lot too. I will go and run along the top of Naval Hill a bit later.
Now I need to maintain consistency and simultaneously reach out for long long distances, long easy workouts to build endurance.
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