Injured now with pics! - Back racing!

rubertoe

Good work Spasy,

You will be fully fit just in time for next years Audax....

spasypaddy

havent given an update in a while.

now riding the turbo 2 or 3 times a day for 5 minutes at a time.
walking without my leg brace around my flat which is awesome

started hydrotherapy as well.

so slowly getting there

dhope

spasypaddy wrote:

turbo
walking
started hydrotherapy

There's a name for you people :roll:

spasypaddy

dhope wrote:

spasypaddy wrote:

turbo
walking
started hydrotherapy

There's a name for you people :roll:

i already do plenty of those

maybe i'll do a mini tri next monday after hydro with a huge transition of the pool to my flat... then 5 mins on the turbo and then a walk.

spasypaddy

so an update 4 months on.

physio has told me to go away and come back when my knee is stronger.

i started in the gym last week lifting weights for my upper body and my sanity.

i also started swimming last week.

this week i fell up the stairs monday morning and since then my knee has been too sore to go to the gym. I want to go EVERY day as i'm doing no exercise otherwise.

ive put on nearly 9kg and im starting to get depressed about it. none of my clothes fit any more and i feel shit, and because i feel shit i dont eat that well and its a vicious circle. last week i went to the gym 3 times in 3 days and stopped eating crap, this week not been because of injury so the vicious circle has looped round and ive eaten badly this week.

weight is not 78.5kg up from a low of 70kg at some point this year which i took down from 83kg at the beginning of 2014 so ive gone full circle.

rolf_f

spasypaddy wrote:

I want to go EVERY day as i'm doing no exercise otherwise. ive put on nearly 9kg and im starting to get depressed about it. none of my clothes fit any more and i feel shoot, and because i feel shoot i dont eat that well and its a vicious circle. last week i went to the gym 3 times in 3 days and stopped eating crap, this week not been because of injury so the vicious circle has looped round and ive eaten badly this week. weight is not 78.5kg up from a low of 70kg at some point this year which i took down from 83kg at the beginning of 2014 so ive gone full circle.

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Keep it up - you'll get there in the end........

spasypaddy

managed 30mins on the turbo last night.

a massive 5.3miles

knee is sore and swollen today...

Wheelspinner

spasypaddy wrote:

managed 30mins on the turbo last night.

a massive 5.3miles

knee is sore and swollen today...

Thing is, after a fair while off and a serious injury such as you've had, 30 mins on a turbo is really quite a tough assignment, even at that pace.

I've been pretty much off a bike for almost 3 years now, and can barely even remember what it was like to be fit, so getting on a turbo is surprisingly and depressingly hard. I'm ok with about 15 - 20 minutes, but 30 is seriously hurt locker stuff, even spinning an easy gear.

Go (a little) easy, and do more of it in shorter blocks. Should help with knee soreness too. I find turbos *always* give me sore knees because I don't move about enough, out of saddle, foot down for traffic stops, whatever.

Keep it up though, it'll be worth it.

spasypaddy

10mins this morning.

will keep trying to knock out 10mins every so often

spasypaddy

im now allowed on the bike.

on the road!!!!!!!

Anonymous

touching wood for not getting a p*******

veronese68

Enjoy! And although it doesn't need to be said, be careful.

spasypaddy

coriordan wrote:

touching wood for not getting a p*******

ha ive been thinking that.

and yes i'll be careful, im going to start with the side road next to my house. up and down that a few times. then try and do a small square to see whether i can ride that far. if i can manage a few squares i'll go back to riding to work.

tgotb

spasypaddy wrote:

and yes i'll be careful, im going to start with the side road next to my house. up and down that a few times. then try and do a small square to see whether i can ride that far. if i can manage a few squares i'll go back to riding to work.

I'm sure you were pedalling squares last time I saw you on a bike

spasypaddy

sad but true

Wheelspinner

1. Enjoy it
2. Be patient
3. Be careful
4. See 1.

Pleased to hear you're back out there. 8)

spasypaddy

i went out for 4 miles last night.

was amazing.

amazing!

so happy.

knee is tender today. will do similar amount tonight.

cant pedal standing up yet but it will come

roger_merriman

spasypaddy wrote:

i went out for 4 miles last night.

was amazing.

amazing!

so happy.

knee is tender today. will do similar amount tonight.

cant pedal standing up yet but it will come

i loved it last year when I got well enough and brave enough to start doing some gentle rides around. rather than stuck on the bus/train

spasypaddy

So now i've done 2 days back to back commuting!

So im kind of back...

asprilla

spasypaddy wrote:

So now i've done 2 days back to back commuting!

So im kind of back...

itboffin

spasypaddy wrote:

So now i've done 2 days back to back commuting!

So im kind of back...

yey!!!

veronese68

Excellent news, pleased to hear it Spasy.

spasypaddy

and then i got the flu so im off work today so next exercise until i feel better.

spasypaddy

i can pedal standing up again!!!!!!!

itboffin

I'm not :evil:

But yes well done.

spasypaddy

no more physio!

Im basically fixed!

itboffin

Good to hear, I'll take up the baton, I'm fecked :?

spasypaddy

So im now going under the knife again to have the wire that was inserted removed. this is rather annoying.

rubertoe

spasypaddy wrote:

So im now going under the knife again to have the wire that was inserted removed. this is rather annoying.

better out than in, No?

spasypaddy

sure. and it should be relatively straight forward. just a pain in the arse