Its Nuclear Rush weekend!! My Love affair with OCR continues

Once again I find myself only days away from my favourite race of the year…Nuclear Rush.  This isn’t just because this is my home team’s race.  It is due to this being the anniversary of my first ever OCR. 

All of the experiences I have had in the last few years can almost all be traced back to this date.  It is almost like the fixed point in time where my life began to really change.  

It is when the idea of writing a blog began when I started seriously training.  Its also when my relationship with Beating Bowel Cancer began.

It was shortly after this that Clinimed became aware of my activities.  Its where I began to meet my OCR family.  

Where I made some great friendships with my fellow Nukes and members of our OCR family.

It really is where most of this journey began!

Importantly it is also the first time since having my operation that I put myself outside of my comfort zone.  I had NEVER done anything like this before, even before my op!  I guess that’s what I love about OCR.  It’s the fact that it pushes everyone that competes just far enough outside of their comfort zone.  It becomes an addiction for all levels of fitness.

The real reason I hold Nuclear Rush in such high regards was probably best described in my blog last year.  Its one of the first times I recall my son looking at me with such pride.  A beaming smile watching his dad wade through a muddy bog!

http://mudbagrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/nuclear-rush-forever-my-special-race.html 

This year I get to run Nuclear Rush with my wife and the following day run the Nuclear Rookies course with them both!

Looks like Rush 2015 could be my new special race....see you in the nuclear mud Saturday ;)

#LOVEMUD

So what is next?

Ever look at yourself in the mirror and wonder who it is staring back?  Wondering what the world thinks of the person looking back at you?

I’m not referring to physical vanity but instead how you are seen as a person.  Recently I have been reflecting asking the ultimate question,……..and the answer isn’t 42 (only the geeks will get that)

Yes life is good, hectic and no two days are the same.  Between, family, work (which is mad at the mo!), training, my love of OCR, Ostomy awareness, blog writing and overall desire to make the most of life I have had a number of unique experiences over the last few years. 

 

But I find myself asking is that enough?

I think it could be that life is too busy!  I have too many things on the go and as such lose enjoyment in many of them.  As I type this blog I find my mind wandering to other things, work, my desire to train.

Perhaps I have also become a victim of my own success? Eventually always asking the question ‘what next’ and answering what is next makes asking the next ‘what next’ question difficult to answer!

So What is next?

To be honest I don’t know?  Perhaps I have reached a point where the ‘what next’ also has a timescale associated to it?  I have reached a level of fitness for example that means the ‘gains’ are not always so obvious.  The better you become at things the harder it is to improve.

Perhaps it is an opportunity for me to take a step back, slow the world down a bit and concentrate on what is important?  

The one thing I do know is I’m not stopping here!  I may just bumble along for a bit but I will definitely continue to enjoy life, to train hard and play harder. 

What the last few years have definitely taught me is you never know what is around the corner….I think I just need to give myself a swift kick in the ass, get my priorities right and move forward one day at a time.