It's been a good couple of weeks' training, although not quite what I had anticipated. I have managed to get in almost all of my planned swims and rides (albeit having to juggle a few days here and there around work and family committments). The weather has been pretty settled and rides have all been in good conditions, except for the ocassional windy patch.
Slowly but surely the fitness is coming back and slowly but surely the memories of how good it feels to train is refilling my empty tanks. I'm loving it again and my mojo is certianly on the rise. Almost 10 hours last week and the week before, including a long ride over 2 hours and a long swim of 2.4km. Ok, its just baby steps, but I don't want to injure myself, do I? The only issue that I am facing is that I cannot run.
Two days after my last post I saw an oesteopath as a referral after an earlier visit to his colleague in November last year. He immediately sent me for an x-ray and ultrasound, fearing a possible stress fracture in my foot. This is a problem that has dragged on for 12 months now and I really need a resolution. The oesteo has diagnosed a stress reaction in the bone and ordered at least a fortnight off running (that follows on from 10 days' reast already).
While the symptom is in my foot, the problem lies in the misalignment of my pelvis a problem that has been worked on by Coach Geoff (and others) over the years to varying degrees of success. Geoff has been doing an amazing job over the last few years and I will be back with him soon, but I have to try something else to try and correct it once and for all.
My hips are rotated to the left and my pelvis tilted forward so that my right leg rotates anti-clockwise and my left leg flicks to the right as I push off. I had noted the different ways that they function in previous postings and had commented on it to physios over the past 10 years but no one seems to have known what to do to correct it.
The new oesteo comes highly recommended and he has suggested a course of action that seems different to the approach of most others. In fact he is going to start in an area of my body that has never even been mentioned as a possible problem - my pelvic floor. Sounds uncomfortable and I bet it will be, but if it makes a difference I don't care. First visit this Wednesday.
Regardless, my early phase of training will continue surely but slowly.
