Well done
Rod,
Susan and
Mike. You are all plugging away well and meeting or exceeding your targets.Coming back from my own injury I'n very impressed by
Susan's post-op improvement with her new bionic hip joint.
Mike, hear what you are saying about injuries. Sorry to hear what happened to your wife. Shame it stopped you both skiing. I hope it hasn't had any long-term impact on her other activities. This is my third ski injury, over 35 or so years skiing. The previous both being twists caused by putting the tail of my ski on top of someone else's coming off chair lifts. Both those led to a limp for a while but didn't prevent my skiing - at the time, or rowing - after. Someone did check me out at the time of the accident, this time and I also did some very gentle practise after I had got over the shock. If I had done something serious I couldn't have done that (let alone the 250km skiing I through the test of the week) any more than your wife could.
As it is I continue to recover:
Monday. Just some walking (couple of miles down into town and back) and cut the grass (we have lots of grass, albeit the mower is self-propelled). Walking and ascending/descending stairs is more or less back to normal.
Tuesday. Did 20 minutes on the ergo. Was aiming at my between-sprints warm-up pace i.e. about 2:26. Managed 2:24.2. Last 4 minutes were faster, at 2:15.4 pace.
Thursday. 72 lengths (1800m) in the pool. This is back to what I normally do, though a tad slower than usual.
Friday: 5000m at 2:17.3 average pace. Last 1000m at 2:11.9 pace. Some discomfort again in the left buttock (my injured leg) but otherwise OK. Was going to do a 1000m warm-down, planned to be about 2:20 pace, but did the last 200m at 1:59.8. This was done with a wedge under the right foot to even the legs up, May have helped as no buttock pain, but it was only a short row.
Saturday, Should have been out in a coxed 4, however too windy, with water right up into the launch flood gate and wind against tide so we ended up just maintaining/spring cleaning our boats.
Sunday (today): Up till now I hadn't been doing warn-ups as I was barely matching my normal warm-up pace. Decided it was time to start going back to my usual 20 minutes Eddie Fletcher warm-up, followed by a test piece and a warm-down.
I found the warm-up quite hard, not helped by the wedge I had installed on Friday starting to fall out. Anyway completed more of less at target pace. Sprints in the warm-up were a tad slower than what I was doing pre-injury. Some discomfort/slight numbness in injured leg when I finished.
At this point I discarded the external wedge and fitted an extra insole, from a walking boot, in my right trainer.
Decided not to make the whole session too long, so went for a 500m sprint (for the IRL) as my test piece. Had been intending to build on Friday's 200m at 1:59.8 with 500m at sub-2 minute pace. Instead I did it in 1:52
. 100m splits at 1:53.5 (32), 1:52.0 (32), 1:52.0 (32), 1:51.0 (38), 1:52.0 (40). This row was reaction free too
.
Finished with a 2000m warm-down in just under 10 minutes at 2:29.5 pace.
Good improvement on the 5k from 2 weeks ago.
