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How did I get here?
My cycle blogSo today is day 1 of preparing myself to start a journey of physical recovery. The title of this blog “ how do I cut radishes” really won’t be obvious for a while, to go forward, I need to...
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Week 1 More shopping
So 1 week since the accident, showering is proving to be a challenge. I can't get the cast wet, but a regular daily walk in warm weather and spinning on the turbo leaves you smelling, well less than...
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X-Rays & Scans
No radishes were used whilst writing this blog 😂😂I am sat waiting to see the consultant, over the last few days I have realised how self indulgent I have been. How there are far more people out there...
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Running & Swimming
It is rather ironic really that I have damaged my hand during what was going to be a 5K run, my daily exercise whilst in Covid-19 lockdown. Out of the 3 triathlon disciplines, running is my least...
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Bad days and Good Friends
Tuesday was not a good day, another X-ray followed by an appointment with the Consultant. The cast will remain in place for 4 more weeks and will be removed on May 19th - 👍 I did a little jig at this...
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Coping Strategies
Determinedness? 😮(not sure if that's actually a word) or sheer bloody mindedness?😳 (not sure that's a word either). A number of people have asked me how I was coping with the emotions, frustration and...
View ArticleSpeed walking ......
Since my accident, I have been walking daily. My target was to do 4 miles per day, my 1 hr of allowed exercise, during the lockdown. Reaching a minimum of 10,000 steps per day is apparently the...
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Growing Food
My OH is currently furloughed, so at home 24/7, to keep himself busy, he has been gardening, I have been supervising, as you do! As much as it’s nice to spend time together, 24/7 is rather a lot, it’s...
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Good People, Hill Repeats😷 and Pilates 🙆🏼♀️
My hand has reduced in size as the swelling has gone down, the bruising has all but disappeared, and I can now wiggle my fingers. Progress in deed! Walking has been quite therapeutic even in the rain...
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Muscle loss and Using your core
In one of my first blogs, I commented that my swim instructor said I wasn't using my core, hence the crab 🦀 like swimming technique!! No one really seemed to be able to explain what they meant....
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Stage 2 - Cast Removal Day 😬
Well today in about 4 hrs, I am hoping to have the cast removed, so fingers crossed this goes ahead.I am very nervous of the cast coming off, equally, it definitely needs to be removed, it has been on...
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Cast is Off, New Bike Ordered
The cast is off. Time to do a little dance! 😁💃 it was such a relief, I am sure that there were birds nesting in it 🤦♀️. I can’t start running until 1st June, to give the ribs a bit more time to heal....
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Physio and weights 🏋️♀️
It’s 10 weeks today since my accident. The ribs are healed, the arm cast has gone and the physio has started. I was surprised to find that after 8 weeks with the cast on, when it was removed my hand...
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Good progress
Its always good to be positive and last week was positive in so many ways. Tuesday afternoon I managed to go swimming in a friends pool. First time since early March and the first opportunity to test...
View ArticleBack on the bike 😊
I have been pondering about the good old British weather, whilst I had my cast on the weather was beautiful, since the beginning of June, we have had torrential rain, cold weather and it’s been very...
View Article12 months on....
So 12 months on since my accident. The world has changed so much, my tiny slice of it, has like most people's changed and progressed with it. Some of it good, some of it not so good. I generally like...
View Article2 years on.....Join a Tri Club & go to the Velodrome
So here we are almost two years on, it's the first week of February 2022 already, 2 years have just disappeared in lockdowns and isolation of one sort or another! The UK has had a relatively mild...
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Food, drink and Triathlon
I'm not a food or nutrition expert having never studied it. However, I have had to recognise that food plays an important part of most peoples triathlon story. Afterall logically, if you don't feed the...
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Off Season Training
The winter / off season is a good time to work on some of the things we neglect during the warmer summer months. For me that's core training, so Pilates and stretching are important, but building up...
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2022 Challenges
So we are just about at the end of 2022, the world has changed so much. The Queen passed which in my opinion was a huge loss, she was such an iconic figure. Covid vaccines have been had by most of...
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