"Coincidence?"

Probably, but who knows.

The last decent run I had since Ironman was 20 kms on Sept 13th.  It was within a week of that run that it all fell apart.  It was also about a week after I started on the thyroid medication.

Fast forward to today.  I have been off the drugs for almost a week now and this morning I decided to run the exact same 20 kms as back in September.

Guess what?

Sept 13th is now the second last decent run I've had.  Today's was infinitely more satisfying.  Of course part of that is just because it feels good to do 20 uninterrupted kms, but even in direct comparison to the Sept run it was good.  Like any 20 km run it was not easy, but it felt appropriately painful throughout, and as a matter of fact I got progressively faster as the run wore on.  I had set out with the idea of maybe matching the previous 20K , but in the end I was 3 minutes quicker.  If that doesn't sound like much, it's still 9 seconds per km, and that's a bunch!  My heart rate was good, my legs felt fine, and there was absolutely no indication of chest tightness.  And of course as soon as I got back my blood pressure was totally normal!

So is it coincidence?  I don't know, and I don't care!  I'm happy to be off the medication, and since it certainly didn't make me feel any better when I was taking it, I can't see any reason to continue to do so.  Good riddance!

run 20 kms, 5:07/km

"Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys."---Emma Bull

"One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves."---Richard Bach

Love

Peter