It would appear that I’ve been in denial, which is a first for me – I can’t recall ever being here before. So if there’s a positive to come, then it’s probably the fact that I’ve experienced something new.
For three weeks, I’ve had my left arm in a sling. For some reason it didn’t really feel real. Yes, my arm was in a sling and fairly sore but either I was being over optimistic or crazy, but in my head – I wasn’t really injured. I mean I finished a full ironman with this broken collar bone, how bad could it really be? So I took it easy for a few weeks and my shoulder started to feel pretty good – certainly better since I took the fall in Zurich three weeks ago.
So this morning, I decided that I’d chance my arm at a swim.. Three weeks, feels pretty good, I swam 4K, biked 180 and ran 42 the day after I broke it so it’ll be better now. Was the thought in my head….
Swam my first fifty meters in three weeks and immediately thought “how the hell did you do an Ironman swim with that shoulder?” It was sore, the pull phase of the swim stroke is very painful. But I can work with it. I had optimistically hoped that if today’s swim went well, I could return to training and maybe even race next weekend! That won’t be happening. My focus now shifts to being in a position to get on to the start line of the Belfast Titanic triathlon in a months time. I not think that’s a big ask, but I am going to have to be careful – getting this wrong could put me out for longer than I want so I’ll have to deploy my new found patience and common sense…. (I’m not convinced either).
Like every active person, I log in to Strava on an hourly basis to see who’s doing what? Being injured is making this an unpleasant experience as I see everyone else clocking up KOM’s and for the first time ever, I’m at the bottom of the LTC weekly training hours league table. But then, I’m not injured, right…..
ArranMan 