“We must accept finite disappointment,
but never lose infinite hope”
Martin Luther King Jr
Resting HR (average): 57
Injury status: (L) low back 1/10, (R) Calf 7/10
Another week with practically no training. Physically the calf is no better with 1km runs all that I could manage on Monday and Friday, before the pain set back in. Both occasions it caused the pain to flare up again for about 2 days. It’s extremely frustrating, as neural injuries simply don’t respond logically! What does one do. On Thursday I had to resort to going for a walk around the river like the middle aged ladies do!
Mentally it’s even more frustrating. The ability to sleep properly, and get up early to exercise is very difficult, almost as if some uncontrollable force makes it impossible to get out of bed. Consequently not much exercise has been happening other than the long, growing list of rehab exercises and neural stretching I have to do.
Next week I am going to see a musculoskeletal medicine specialist. I have experience of refering to 1 when I used to work as a physio in Wellington. They do things such as further investigations, trigger point injections and whatever else is necessary. I’m hoping I can get some light shed on my problem, and a solution that can stop this problem once and for all. After all Comrades 2010 is getting closer every day…
“Don’t lose hope.
When it gets darkest the stars come out”
