Blog Posts about injury

I must admit I've been really lucky with the weather for my first two triathlons this year. Most of my friends started their season at the end of March in freezing temperatures but the sun was shining, the birds were singing & the water s...

Pardon me for stating the obvious, but this is the first time I’ve done a proper taper, and it’s great! Having only raced short distances before, ‘taper’ has just meant threeish days off at the end of the week before a Sunday race. With...

I started as a runner. I could swim (in the relaxing, floaty sense), but my first foray into the world of sport in the self-challenging, competitive sense was all about running for a year and a half. In the early days I ran 5 – 10k dist...

My recent knee injury has meant that I've finally got around to starting some more strength and conditioning work. It's something I'd been neglecting in my training schedule, but while I couldn't run I started to incorporate a couple of ses...

I discovered aqua jogging earlier this year after a series of lower leg injuries had prevented any running on land (with all problems stemming from an accident where a car rammed into the side of me whilst on my motorbike back in September ...

I suppose it had to happen at some point but I seem to have picked up a knee injury. Why now? I really don't want to have to ease off with some big races on the way. I've posted about it on my weblog along with my plans about what to do ...

Thought things were going well, Outlaw complete, no ill after effects, walking around normaly, what could be more sensible than a light recovery run, 4.5 miles piece of cake. Well legs felt like concrete no spring at all and to cap it off n...

If you've read my last blog post, you'll know that I'm nursing a poorly knee/hip injury. It's been recommended to me by a physiotherapist that I read 'Stretch to Win' by husband and wife Ann and Chris Frederick, and also try some Yoga. ...

Did quick and easy swim exercise of some basic kick, stroke, and mostly pulling but probably did only about 800m of swimming due to still being gassed from Sunday's 20.42 mile run. TSD practice was ok as well but anytime put most weight on...

Saturday was the last Cross country league match, in wing. It was freezing, and as I came down the hill, I twisted my ankle. Tried to continue running up the hill but couldn't run fast, and then fell over coming back down the hill. Bit of ...

I'm feeling nervous today. The reason why I'm feeling nervous is because I'm doing a triathlon tomorrow (Burnham Supersprint), and I know it is going to hurt. I'm feeling nervous that I'm going to fail to get through the run or even wor...

With my knee the way it is at the moment (I have runners knee that refuses to get better!), I struggle to do any running at all without experiencing pain during and after training. I've found that putting ice on my knee after exercise grea...

I'm a lucky girl. In the period when I would usually be sitting around eating selection boxes and many lindor chocolates (the post christmas/pre new year danger period), I was in Mallorca with a bunch of talented athletes and good friends....

Good news today, I managed to do a run on Wednesday and my knee injury that I've been nursing was fine. At last, I Back to Running, so now its time to gradually increase my run volume again without risking re-injury or hindering the he...

I'm going to aim to drop a quick note at the end of each week in the lead up to Auckland to give an account of the training done during that week. I'm trying to follow a prescribed 12 week plan (free download from Triathlon Geek, and well ...

Splits: 1.5k Swim: 0:30:28 T1: 0:02:28 40k Bike: 1:16:42 T2: 0:00:48 10k Run: 0:45:19 Total: 2:35:48 Sunday 8th July 2012: The race was great considering it was hit and miss at registration the day before as to whether it would ...

It's already been almost a month since I last posted so here's an update of where I am now... After the Manchester Marathon injury I decided not to run the Edinburgh marathon either. It's not like me to play it safe but I didn't want to ...

Result: DNF Splits: 10K - 00:43:08 10miles - 1:10:53 Woke up 6:45 feeling really good. Had breakfast of porridge with honey, seeds and fruit (Yum). Looked out the window and the weather was shit. Hard rain, hard wind, gloomy clouds l...

Right foot was actually really, really bad today. Could barely stand on it let alone put any weight. Was really freaking out and depressed but Nina Cheong told about me a anterior tibialis stretch that almost quite literally, made it stop ...

As the headline says, what a difference 2 weeks makes! My wife, Sheela, spent over an hour last Friday removing the stitches, whilst watching House and drinking red wine. Ah, Friday nights aren't what they used to be! There's been some...