With my training requiring several adjustments over the past six weeks one would think I would've had plenty of time up my sleeve but that couldn't be further from the truth.
After tearing my hip flexor at Noosa I have been restricted to physio visits, riding and swimming; all be it with a pull buoy firmly fixed between my legs. And while Revive have been doing all they can to speed up the recovery process, once I got my head around the injury and what sort of recovery time I was looking at I took the opportunity to really up my swimming and in particular, my strength in the water being limited to pull buoy. After about four weeks this was really starting to pay dividends and I was swimming close to PB times and was doing so with very restricted leg action.
Unfortunately breaking my finger came at a pretty inconvenient (if there is ever a convenient time!) time because over the past couple of weeks my hip has been healing really well and I've been able to get a few very small runs done and while I am still having some discomfort it is certainly on the improve and hopefully a few weeks of drills, light running and rehab I can be back into some decent volume and regaining my running fitness. I was actually back on the bike the day after the accident (all be it on a windtrainer to make sure I could get a confident grip on my brakes) and have been almost every day since. I have also been back swimming with paddles just for a bit of extra protection but as yet still can't really swim at any significant pace am trying to keep the feeling of the water there so I don't completely loose my fitness. Combining this with some strength sets on the stretch cords while the rest of the squad do their main sets was working out well for me and while my arms were definitely screaming out for a rest I was confident I was doing something that was working.
With my racing plans put on hold I have taken the opportunity to get out there the past couple of weeks and enjoy the spectating side of the sport and let me tell you it is a very different view-point turning up to a race with nothing to do other than watch! My first experience was the Bribie Triathlon two weeks ago where the tables were turned from the norm and I was the one watching while Dan was out there racing instead of coaching. And this weekend just gone I was again kept busy spending my Saturday at the Gold Coast watching the junior elites from our squad doing their thing at the ITU Sprint Weekend. And what a job they did with the girls finishing the weekend with Jodie Duff in first, Britt Dutton in second, Holly Grice in third, Anna Coldham in fourth, Sophie Malowiecki in sixth, Jenna Fulton in ninth, Laura Dennis in eleventh, Angus Gibson in fifteenth, Wyatt Westmoreland in forty-second and Harry Sweeny in second in the youth male division. Unfortunately I didn't get to their final on the Sunday because I was down at Raby Bay watching the race there with Emily Bevan finishing second, Maddi Allen in fifth and Sarah Deuble in sixth in the open womens race and Lawrence Garufi winning his age group and Dave Kelly still snaring himself a podium after a lap counting incident. And let me tell you without even doing a race I was exhausted after that weekend!
My recovery from my crash is still a little bit unknown and that's even after spending another four hours in hospital yesterday seeing every orthopaedic surgeon the Royal Brisbane Hospital has to offer. What I did find out is that I actually still had a dislocation in my finger that wasn't noticed when I first went to hospital and instead of the initial two fractures I have three. After going through the same amount of pain I did the first time, the second dislocation is now fixed but because of the locations of the fractures and time since the accident the next step is a little bit of an unknown. By the sounds of things they are leaning towards surgery which I was initially trying to avoid but they want to seek the advice of their hand specialists and until I hear from them later in the week I am playing the sitting and waiting game, which also involves limiting my hand movements until then but won't stop the running or riding. Who knew a little finger could cause so much difficulty!
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