Right, where were we? I’ve been a bit remiss and missed a few of my normal weekly updates recently, and unfortunately, I think that may continue to be the case for a while.
It’s not that I’ve fallen out of love with the blog thing, it’s just that things still aren’t going quite right, I’ve had nothing to tell you about, and if I’m being brutally honest, I seem to have lost my way a bit. I think that the last time I updated these pages, things were looking up. After my problems with my left knee, I was back doing some gentle running, with a view to slowly pushing the miles back up, and although I’d had a few motivation issues on the cycling front, I was still getting out and about. Well, things rapidly took a turn for the worse again on the running front and having managed a couple of 7-mile runs, my right knee decided that it was going to get in on the action, followed swiftly by my Achilles tendons. The strange thing is, I’ve never had any problems with my right knee before and although my Achilles have been sore on occasion, this time we seem to have gone straight into full blown tendonitis with no warning, no slow build up to problems, and seemingly no swift recovery. So, I’m back to square one, but even more unhappy about it than before! On the positive side, both my Achilles and Knee are getting better. A couple of weeks ago, I was struggling to get down the stairs (especially first thing in the morning) but that’s improving now, and I am hopeful that at some point I will get back running. But it’s been 3 and a half months now and realistically I can see it being 6 months before things are right and I can start another slow and gradual build up, so I’m not in a good position. Plus, the longer this goes on the harder it will be to get back full stop, and the less inclined I am to even try! I suspect that kicking the backside out of the cycling isn’t helping on the knee front either and as I mentioned previously, I’ve really not had the desire or mental stamina recently to even try. I think that my last update covered a short 100K that I extended slightly by riding to the start and back, and I’ve since done another ride in a similar vein, plus an overnight trip, but that’s it. To be honest, I’m finding the whole injury thing incredibly frustrating and whilst I fully realise that I’m in an extremely lucky position to have the health that I have got, having gone from ultra-running and cycling, to nothing, in the space of a couple of months has really knocked me mentally. I need to do something to stop me going mad though, so to that end I’ve been throwing my efforts into a multitude of other little projects, from the allotment, to working on the van, and more recently “The Emma’s” Peugeot, which has had a few issues recently. So, there it is, probably not the update we all wanted, but an update none the less. One thing is for certain though, I’m not going to sit around moping and feeling sorry for myself any longer, I’ve done enough of that already this year. If I can’t run for the time being, then so be it, and if I have to cut back the cycling miles for a few months to allow my legs to fully recover, then so be that too, I’ll just have to find something else to do instead. There’s lots of other things that interest me and that I enjoy doing, many of which have been neglected due to the ever-increasing running and cycling interests, so maybe I’ll just go back to doing other things instead for a while, and I’m sure that when my body is ready, I’ll get back running. Because at the end of the day I love it. I love the freedom, the endorphin release from exercising, and the feeling of traversing the world under your own power, so I will get back to running and cycling, even if it kills me! But for now, it’s going to have to be other things. To that end, I’m not going to rabbit on anymore. I’m not promising anything, but I’ll try and keep the regular posts coming over the next few months and see how we get on, but for now I’ll leave you with a few pictures from the past few weeks and we’ll go from there.
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Paul PerrattOld enough to know better, young enough to still feel invincible, stupid enough to keep on trying the same thing again and again. Cyclist, Gardener, Runner, Hiker, Cook, Woodworker, Engineer, Jack of all trades and master of none, Anti social old git and all round miserable bugger. Archives
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