Post-competition training hung-over

I've done focused long-term building up and psyching up to competitions or similar physical exams before as well, but motivation-wise the national champs were completely different than anything I've experienced before. Perhaps I haven't done max-concentration events in the middle of a training period for several years, but the motivational back lash took way longer than I had been anticipating. For a week or so after the competition I did not have any appetite for physical training, and I was completely unable to concentrate on anything mentally challenging, like working, for a week. Hopefully it was only the relaxation of the stress that I had intentionally built myself as a part of the build-up routine.
As I did not train after the competition and kept on working as usual the result was predictable: I got some fever and/or flu. Again. Before the last 6 months I was not once ill for years, and lately I have been regularly ill for multiple days monthly. My conclusion has been, that my body just cannot keep up with the rhythm that I've been putting myself into. The overly exhausting rhythm could theoretically originate from training or from working. I've excluded the training part because when I trained for the navy diver course or was on it I trained so hard and so much that even the most masochistic trainings I do nowadays would have been relaxation back then. And when I was doing those extreme training I was practically never ill. So, this leaves me with the conclusion that my physics falling apart must be caused by working too much. So, one more reason for cutting down on the hours spent by the computer. Extrapolating the situation of experiencing collapsing health before 30 years of age would not lead to pleasant future scenarios. Actually I've been able to control my working hours relatively decently since then, but there are still some work to be done in that field.
Other motivational aspects have included the way I motivated myself for the competition. Previously I have dived because it has felt good or because I wanted to challenge myself, but in the last national champs I focused primarily on winning. I have been telling myself that it was tactically rational to limit my dives to the lengths that were sufficient for winning to avoid risking SP, but I have not been able to convince myself on that matter completely. I have ruined too many hobbies for myself by adopting too competitive mind-set, and freediving is so important part of my life that I do not want to risk losing my desire for it. The other, and less important, problem has been that if I want to focus on achieving the 200+ mark I cannot have multiple partially conflicting motivators driving me towards it instead of one, clear and compelling reason. I believe that I have tackled this issue by returning to basic and relaxed training for a couple of weeks, and now I start to feel the itch to begin trying out some longer dives once again...
But when I had overcome my internal motivational issues I heard of Loic's incident. I was very surprised how profoundly it affected me and my motivation. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about it, and I think the reason for the profound impact was that for me Loic stood out for everything that was good and right about freediving: positivity, relaxation, calmness, humbleness, attitude towards safety etc. If you've had the privilege of meeting him you know what I mean. Practically everything we (in Finland at least) know of safety and diving's preferred mind-set can be traced back to Loic and his team. My conclusion, at least for now, is that the best way to honor Loic's legacy is to try and keep up his ideas and standards even though we cannot get our frequent 'fix' of energy he gave to everyone diving with him.

Anyway, lot's of mind-work, too little water time since the competition, but now feeling again as positive and motivated as ever. Off to pool!

BTW: some amazing pics and the complete UW-video of the national champs can be found by following the (Finnish) hyperlinks in here. Can you spot the difference between my and Anders's technique? ;)