One day of my life in famous Ukrainian treatment resort, Truskavets (post season recovery and an injury treatment).

Monday morning. Sunrise 7.30 a.m., the view from my window.

The way to "beuvet" - a place,

were people drink magic :) water. (1 ml)

 The water in "beuvet".

 Ihave to go there 3 times a day to drink the "Naftusia" an hour before each meal (250ml).

                                      The "beuvet" from distance.

A first treatment: a bath with mineral water.

Breakfast at 9.00 a.m. , European stile breakfast :)

               Foot treatment

A little bit of exercising before a second time walking  to "beuvet"

                                              

 

Some fun on the way to  beuvet                                              

Friend of mine, Tatiana, visited from Lvov. In Truskavets main park.

Last treatment of the day: Massage at the cabinet calls: "Center of pain and massage therapy" :)  After that last walk for water and following dinner.

Rest and good night sleep.

Ironman Florida and post season recovery time.

I am kind of late with race report. I'll try to make a long story short. Last few weeks were very busy with travel and hard acclimatization. Now I finally settled for several days in some phenomenal and beautiful place in Ukraine, calls Truskavets http://www.traveltoukraine.org/truskavets.htm 

But before that was Ironman Florida, which was one of the best races for me this year. After I got injury in July I couldn't get well from it for a couple months. That was a reason why I missed most of my running intervals last summer and  also that's why I didn't finish in Kona. After Hawaii Ironman I took 1 week off from running. I also switched to a different running shoes. I got a pair of K-swiss and all three weeks before Ironman Florida I was tasting the same pair of shoes, trying to get use to them fast.  I really didn't know what to expect from the marathon run in Panama City. But also because of that I didn't have pressure on myself, all my Ironman race usually depends on my run.

 Friend of mine gave me a very good advice for my race and I stick to it. He reminded me that Ironman is a very long race and it can be a critical mistake to race it hard from the beginning. He also helped me to understand how to control the power on the bike: " power is nothing without control :)))"

I felt actually better at the end of bike course and still had an energy to run, although I didn't try to chase the girls ahead of me, by killing myself on the first miles of marathon, I just kept doing my race. 

I was already happy about my Ironman when I was running on third position, when I herd that Bella Baylis is 1.5 min ahead, then 1 min. 10 sec., then 50 sec and still more than 5 ml. to go. And finally I saw her back and realized, that I have a chance to be on second place. But it wasn't easy at all. I caught her and tried to run away a few times, but it was hard to drop her and we ran together until last 2 km. I've decided to give it all, all what had left... I did and I herd that she is one step behind, two steps,

 more, I didn't look back until the finish line. I still didn't win the Ironman, but I was happy about second place very much. And it was a good way to finish season 2009.

It was a long season and I was glad to have some rest and to do something different back home. Now it's time to take care of my health, recover from the long year of racing and refill an energy for the next season.