I always appreciated a T-shirt popular amongst college athletes when I was in college that announced: “It’s not how you get hit, it’s how you recover.” This mantra was appropriate for rowing, with its obsessive training regimen and emphasis on peak fitness as a baseline for all else. I always recovered fairly well, although it wasn’t easy when I was making weight (~155 pounds / 70kg is the average for lightweight men).
Today, in a non-physical manner, I got hit with an unwelcome surprise. It’s now time to recover. It’s also time to get back to work, after more than a fortnight of vacation wrapped around the end-of-year holidays. Wish me luck.