I can’t stand on my
foot. Every time I do, pain shoots up from my ankle. Its September 2010 and I
have decided to go for my first Wednesday evo run session. Something that I
have been putting off for a couple of months. The reason, as much as I love
cycling…well let’s just say that running has never been my thing.
But here I am ready for
the run, yawning as I always do when I am nervous about doing sports. I have
decided to start with the beginners, although one of the ladies in that group
looks at me and ask me that I surely must be in the wrong group.
We start I stick to the
back don’t want to be showing off. (I know I can’t keep it up). So there I am trotting
along, thinking this is a bit slow, I guess I am all right… and whack my foot
goes into a hole and all my weight on the ankle. I blow out, it hurts. I am
cursing myself for being stupid and not focusing on what I am doing.
It hurts but I try
running on. I catch up with the group, we start running up the hill towards the
castle, the pain is still there but maybe I can run it off.
We do sprints and run
around the block a couple of times. And then we stop and start stretching.
After the stretching we wait I while till everybody finishes. And then we set
off…and that’s when I stop, I can’t run, I can’t even stand on my foot.
I come home, do RICE
which I know from my first help courses. The next day I go to the GP. She tells
me to rest it. I do for 2 weeks at which point I do the palace to palace ride. I
do the 70 km off biking. My ankle still hurts and a week after the ride, my
knee starts hurting when I bike. Its back to the GP who tells me that I have
probably over compensated on the ride and my knee has taken the brunt. She
tells me to rest further. After a month with no change I go back and tell her
what now. I tell her I have private healthcare. She lights up and says, “Why
didn’t you tell me straight away”.
So in short I have been
dragging my foot along for a month, to the detriment of my knee . And NOW she
tells me I should go see an expert? Hurra for the NHS.
I see the expert, he
sends me off to Windsor Physiotherapists and Jiallil becomes my new best
friend, task master and healer. We work hard, I follow his advice. I run on the
grass, I do the home training. I get the wonderful ultrasound.
When we hit February I
am back to training again.
Opslag
