GUTTED!!!!
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Ok, well, just over a week ago I hurt my knee when I was just going out running!!
Thought it was nothing, as you do, and went to Physio next day and Docs!
In a big fat stupid NUTSHELL, I’ve torn the muscles at the bottom of my Quadriceps and along with Cartilage I had removed in my teens, is causing me huge grief!! So, with my first event looming, Sunday 25th MAY, yes, THIS Sunday coming, I rested as told to, took the pills, did exercises given to me by the physio, and had physio to..... last night, had the news I was dreading!!! CAN'T DO THE EVENT!!! Ok, it's not my first Tri, it's a MTB Marathon in Ruthin, but was my first event of the year, and was SO looking forward to it, giving me the spring into my first Tri @ Tatton on the 8th June!! He said, in a word, 'do it at your peril!!' Do it and it would probably only jeopardise June 8th!! Not an option really, and I don't want to not do Tatton!! Gutted isn't in it, and yet, heart of hearts, I know I shouldn't, it's still not right, and yet the little devil sitting on my shoulder says 'do it'!! I know I can't, feeling flatter than the proverbial FLUKE, and now, the world is against me!! Any words of ass kicking would be muchly appreciated and any one else with similar experiences, cause we never like to be alone in these things, would be muchly appreciated!!
On a slight plus, he said I could swim, and for the last 3 nights I’ve hit a PB every night!! I've gone back into the Gym and I’m doing low stroke rowing machine!! Not what I want to do, training was coming on SO well, and now this!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [:(] [:(] [:(] [:(]
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Actually going to be giving up football for the season coming, but still suspect that something from the 'Gods' will come down on me weeks before the first race to scupper my season.
Definitely do not risk the earlier race. You'll be even more peeved if you try to do it fail, miss the next one, possibly the one after that. Using the swimming as your driving force! Stay strong, and rest fully!!!! [image]http://forum.220magazine.com/micons/m6.gif[/image]
YOU CAN DO IT!
I've not far off wrapped myself up in cotton wool, but ast week, i was feelimg great, brick training, proably training 'to' hard, a warm night, you know, all that b*LL*X, and WHAM, ran out the gate, and thought, Ooo, now that doesn't feel quite right!! DID the run, idiot i know, and then went on the bike hoping it was 'just in my head' more idiot, i know, and Ooo, it wasn't!!
Couldn't go up the stairs when i got in!!
Over a week now, and it's still strapped to the hilt, and i'm still a grumpt bear!!
SO, looking forward to my events, but again, i know your right!!
Thanks again....
Off to the Docs again tomorrow, Physio says I need and MRI scan but the doctor is a bit reluctant to do it!
Rest well and get fit for the next one!![:)]
Rest up, you'll be better for it in the long term.
Britspin, i had the cold way back, that was hard enough not training, and resting up, but this ones killing me!!
Again, thank you... i'll rest, your all right, and being a bloke, that's difficult enough to admit in itself!! [:D]
Sick for you [image]http://forum.220magazine.com/micons/m15.gif[/image]
It doesn't help i not only had the cartlidge removed in my teens, but in my 20's i had a bike accident to, and so my knee's have been, sensitive shall we say, ever since!
And i SO don't want to miss my first Tri!
It's my forst year, got so into it, i've entered one a month starting June through to September where i am doing a sponsored ride from London To Paris!! I have then entered the Oulton Park Duathlon!!
I know i shouldn't moan, and i don't mean to sound like i am, it's the disapointment, the let down..... even though my first event this sunday was a MTB MArathon, it was my warm up into what should have been a great year!!
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I was at the Physio yesterday and Docs again today - off to the orthopedic bloke sometime soon - apparently mine is a patella tracking problem which may or may not need surgery - oh it's all great news this week isn't it. At guess I know for certian that I won't be racing on the 1st!
Best of luck with the recovery - I really hope you make it but if not you'll be so ready for the next one!!
LB
Yeah, i'm resting, through gritted teeth....although, i did a session on the rower last night, and as i've said, still swimming!
Well, i'm real sorry to hear you won't make the first, keep us posted though as to how it's going
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Having to wait til 27th June for the resulting operation - 6 weeks before London. I am able to swim & bike but running creates soreness.
All this wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't one of 6 from my office doing London and to DNS would render me a laughing stock (I guess I take Tri a bit more seriously than the others who consider me an Tri addict). Worse than DNS would be to finish behind any of them groin injury/operation or not.