I don't think I have ever met an athlete that has not gone through a point in their athletic career where they have been faced with illness or injury that has set them back in achieving their goals. For me, this happened last season when I got glandular fever after the second round of the 2018/19 Ironwoman Series. One of the things that I found really useful while I was sick was to read stories from other athletes and how they dealt with similar adversity. Everyone deals with sickness and injury differently and there are a million different ways to go about it, but you can only find what's right for you by experimenting with things other people have done. So, I want to share my experience of dealing with this mid-season crisis, in the hope it can help someone who finds themselves in a similar situation.
My way of recovering from glandular was to convert all the effort I put into training into my recovery. Instead of setting training goals, I made recovery goals. The best thing about this was that it gave me structure and purpose, things I would normally find in my training.
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