I was planning to update my training yesterday and the day before but never got around to it.Yesterday i was painting my backyard fence and fell over rolling my ankle.I immediately knew my race on Sunday was in serious doubt as i double rolled down the backyard hill.
I got "ice" on it straight away,if you can call cubes of frozen mash potato ice!My father in law was helping me do the painting and i didn't want to let him do it all so i iced and hobbled,iced and hobbled through it.It hurt but wasn't excruciating....when we had finished my wife wanted to go for coffee at a cafe so i decided as we were about to leave that i would put Voltarin on the affected area.Now straight after we left it just started to swell up and ache like it had been the victim of a sledgehammer blow.I did my best to not complain but damn it hurt.We came home and i promptly took Panadol which i never normally do.I elevated my leg,iced it and after another twenty minutes the edge had come off the pain.I stayed in that position for the rest of the night and went to bed with my foot raised by two pillows.
In the morning i went to the doctor and he examined it and said that i had torn the ligaments and it was badly bruised.He gave me seven days off work, though i hope it will recover before then!
Well there's nothing like a setback to get you thinking so i am going to have to find another 5km race in at least two weeks to test my training out on assuming i am 100% fit by then.
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- R2B
- People can't understand why a man runs. They don't see any sport in it. Argue it lacks the sight and thrill of body contact. Yet, the conflict is there, more raw and challenging than any man versus man competition. For in running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability, with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions.
7 comments:
Bad luck mate. I hate it when you injure yourself and it is not running related.
There will be plenty of races in the future. Just don't try to come back too hard too early.
Although from the look of the last comment, you may have some things to look at when you have your feet up ;-)
Bloody hell :-(
Sounds like you treated it perfectly when it happened, hopefully that will help aid the recovery. Why do these things happen everything is going so well!!!
Mend quicky, and mend well.
Hope you keep on blogging to let us know how its progressing.
At least it wasn't a mayor race, so keep looking for the next one, and feel completely recover first of all.
what a bummer...torn ligaments can be a pain in the butt to deal with...make sure you get into physio to assist the healing process...and don't rush back as ever little piece of uneveness in the ground will be exaggerated when jogging/running...
Frustrating when it happens so close to a event.
thnaks for your comments on my blog...
i'll make sure to give all Kembla Joggers a big cheer (almost as big as the CR cheer [:-)])!
should know what my marathon volunteering role is in the next couple of days...
Bugger! And you weren't even doing the steeplechase. Bloody fences!
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