Every Day Is Another Dumb Adventure
If racing is a celebration of training, then my time at Vineman on Sunday was one big 6-hour, 34-minute, 54-second party. I went to the athlete meeting, got my wristband and packet, set up my T2 stuff, and lazed around the hotel until it was time for dinner with Michaela, Courtney, and friends. I never encountered any particularly shallow spots; after the turnaround, I touched the riverbed a couple of times, but mostly I was able to swim normally. I saw people ahead of me dolphin-diving once or twice and spotted some people walking at the edges, but it seemed like most of my wave was swimming most of the time. I felt like I’d had a good swim relative to my normal open-water swims and, from what I could tell, relative to my age group – but that would be a good time for me for that distance in the pool. I wasn’t doing myself any favors on time, but my footing wasn’t awesome and I’d long ago decided it wouldn’t be worth running my bike out, especially if I was going to walk the little gravelly hill out of transition. It probably took an extra minute on either side of the timing mat, but two minutes weren’t going to make a difference in my day. My obsessive over-planning of snacks paid off a handful of times. I’d packed a goody bag – a handful of cherry cola and watermelon candies – for this stretch, and every time I started to feel rough, I thanked myself for my foresight and ate a treat. I took my time walking my bike a long way – my Garmin recorded almost a quarter mile! – to my T2 spot and spent a few more minutes stretching once I got there.
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Even though we tend to commonly describe discomfort in this region as groin pain, the specific source of pain could be related to numerous different structures including muscle, tendon, ligament, joint, bone and nerves. There are many ways RHP physiotherapists assess groin pain in athletes to determine which structure(s) are the source of pain and what the causes are. Ankle injuries require a comprehensive assessment to direct best treatment to reduce your pain and aid in the prevention of repeated injury. Shoulder Pain – shoulder pain is very common in the spiking arm of a volleyball athlete. Low back pain – low back pain can come from many different sources in your back. Pain – manages or prevents pain and its impact on function in patients using a psychologically informed and interdisciplinary approach. Physiotherapists work with other health and social-care professionals to manage pain at the acute stage of an injury or condition, including through identifying psychosocial risk factors that may lead to chronicity. Aquatic – using a pool, physiotherapists treat patients with a multitude of conditions using hydrotherapy including sports injuries, post-operative and orthopaedic conditions, spinal pain and/or injuries and arthritis. These injuries can include low back pain, hip joint degeneration, gluteal tendinosis, and knee pain. In some patients, there may also be a role for a psychologist to work together with the patient, the physiotherapist and the GP to resolve the pain experience, or at the very least, learn how to manage the pain.
Ashington triathlon
On 31 March 2012 I donned a red T-shirt and smiled all the way round the five miles of the Olympic Park, touching the side of the velodrome, and eventually emerging from the long corridors underneath the stands to run on that track. With a still nigglesome foot and little focused training, I failed to improve on last year’s time, but I was off and running and my enthusiasm for crazy multi-sport events was as high as ever. On Olympic opening day itself, I was a visitor at Ellem’s again, enjoying a swim in a lake near where she lives, a cycle and a run before heading home to wonder in delight at the opening ceremony. So to September, which sort of marks the beginning and end of my running year with the Great North Run. Another sunny day in the company of my lovely friends; a perfectly run event; a swim that frankly astonished me, and a run that convinced me I could get back to previous form. Using what I’d learned from my physio treating my plantar fasciitis earlier in the year I rested, recovered and returned using a walk run plan to build back up. That’s made me develop more good habits and the additional stretching, running drills and warm up are now a regular part of my routine. Not running so much also drove me back to swimming and cycling. So onto birthday celebrations in November, combined with a return to parkrun and each week developing confidence in my new running style and chipping away at my time. December saw us get together for a Fetch track mile – a great chance to meet up, run a bit and eat some cake before Christmas.
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