Today saw one of the first sprint triathlons of the season being held, in our village of all places. So the boy and I headed up to the competitors area to take a sneaky peek at what we hope to be doing next year. In a former life I did a bit of swimming so the 400m in the pool doesn’t phase me too much, though the speed of this years competitors does! The boy, on the other hand, who is sporty and lithe, sinks like a stone and is somewhat peturbed about pool, but fairly confident with the biking and running. My main concern (apart from collapsing from exhaustion half way through the bike ride, only to have my behind whooped by the other competitors as they streak like lightening past me) is my hips. Now I’m thinking on the positive side of things and with the first hip sorted in July, recovered well enough to get the second sorted 6 months later in January, that gives me a little over 3 months from the second op to be well enough to compete … hmm a little optomistic maybe?!
On the hip front, rightie is playing up as usual with a few extra bonus twinges, and leftie does not appreciate the hopping action with crutches, it even had the audacity to start giving grief whilst walking last week. Ur..NO! I say. That is not in the grand plan, and is not allowed, fortunately leftie has quit the grumbling for now – at least until I try and climb the stairs on crutches again!
June 2, 2009 at 4:27 am |
July is approaching soon, good luck with the first hip! This is a super blog. Wish I had this type of thing before I went into surgery over 3 years ago. At that time, all I could find was an outdated website where older, overweight, inactive people (not that there’s anything wrong with that), posted miserable, sorry stories of their PAOs. It scared me to death! The real truth is that if you take care of yourself before surgery and after, you will do fine!!
June 4, 2009 at 10:40 am |
Hiya,
How you doin, hows the hip?
Are you on countdown again yet, or is it hard to get motivated for a second time?
Hope your ok,
Kate x