Sorry folks this is out of order and needs to be before the horrid week post.
Met up with Johnny Mac at 9am as usual and the pair of us set off on an 18 mile trek. We headed down Southport Road and on to Euxton Lane where we turned left on to Wigan Road towards Coppull.
It was a fine morning and we both had tshirts I braved the capri pants but Johnny had his lycra shorts on. Brave man. I set the Garmin (or so I thought) for 5mm and we were running ahead of it for most of the way.
There's a long drag up Wigan road but we were OK with it. At the mini-roundabout we turned right past Camelot and after a quick drink continued on our merry way through Eccleston. We were still ahead of the virtual partner at this stage. Through Eccleston and on to Ulnes Walton Lane where we both had a comfort break and then continued on our way down to Longmeanygate, both feeling tired. 14 miles. I was more tired than I was on the half marathon the week before. Down Longmeanygate and through Broadfield estate to Worden park and another comfort break then onwards up onto the A49, through Euxton and back to base. Eccleston church hill gave me a sudden burst of energy but I tired 3/4 of the way up. Anyway, we managed to make it back to the club in 3h29 mins 18.36 miles done.
Friday 6 March 2009
one horrid week
Well after 18.36 miles last Sunday my foot finally gave in.
On Monday it was hurting, but I thought that was just because of the long road run on Sunday. I could hardly walk on it on Monday all day and phoned to make an appointment at the doctor's. I also made an appointment with the physio at the gym (Clare) for Tuesday.
The doctor thought it might be fractured and send me for an xray. When I went to physio she also suggested it might be fractured and added that I should go to A & E straight away to have it xray'd and not to wait for an appointment. I went straight from there to A & E and was seen more or less straight away (lucky) The specialist nurse who saw me sent me for an xray and then confirmed that it looked like a small fracture of the 5th metatarsal. I went to the fracture clinic on Thursday and the consultant said he couldn't see a fracture!! Where to go from here? Panic started to set in and he said he would send for a bone scan for me. The soonest date is 23rd march!!! nearly 3 weeks away!!! By that time it will have healed anyway so what's the point? I may as well let some other poor bugger have the appointment.
So here I am totally depressed, unable to run because I don't know if it's fractured or not and doing my best to stay reasonably fit and healthy. Then I thought I'm not going to stand for this!! So I phoned xray and asked if they could give me another one to double check, phoned the doctor for another green card and they gave me another appt on Friday the 13th at 8.45am. At least if I get another opinion I'll feel happier about it although still in doubt.
So what have I been doing? Well I was told that I could swim, use the bike and the rower and the resistance machines, but definately no weight bearing until the results of the scan/xray come through so every day I've been down at the gym doing just that. I've also rooted out an old callanetics video which I used years ago and found very good for toning. I'd recommend it to anyone if you can keep stand the slowness of the exercises.
I've also hired a lovely automatic car because I'm not insured to drive a manual transmission one at a fairly reasonable (but still expensive) cost. At least I can get about.
The other gripe is that I have to stay off work yet again. I think the head's getting fed up with me always being off for one thing or another. I don't want to be off work. I hate being stuck at home all the time and would much rather be in work even though the kids can be little scrotes at times. I like them really.
Well for anyone unfortunate enough to have read all of this my apologies but I needed to get it all off my chest.
I've got a fracture boot on my left leg and I'm fed up.
I hope I can post something a little more uplifting next time. If anyone reading this has any suggestions I'd be more than grateful for them. Meanwhile the FLM is in abeyance. I reckon Paula Radcliffe's dropped out because there'll be no competition left if I defer till next year ;)
On Monday it was hurting, but I thought that was just because of the long road run on Sunday. I could hardly walk on it on Monday all day and phoned to make an appointment at the doctor's. I also made an appointment with the physio at the gym (Clare) for Tuesday.
The doctor thought it might be fractured and send me for an xray. When I went to physio she also suggested it might be fractured and added that I should go to A & E straight away to have it xray'd and not to wait for an appointment. I went straight from there to A & E and was seen more or less straight away (lucky) The specialist nurse who saw me sent me for an xray and then confirmed that it looked like a small fracture of the 5th metatarsal. I went to the fracture clinic on Thursday and the consultant said he couldn't see a fracture!! Where to go from here? Panic started to set in and he said he would send for a bone scan for me. The soonest date is 23rd march!!! nearly 3 weeks away!!! By that time it will have healed anyway so what's the point? I may as well let some other poor bugger have the appointment.
So here I am totally depressed, unable to run because I don't know if it's fractured or not and doing my best to stay reasonably fit and healthy. Then I thought I'm not going to stand for this!! So I phoned xray and asked if they could give me another one to double check, phoned the doctor for another green card and they gave me another appt on Friday the 13th at 8.45am. At least if I get another opinion I'll feel happier about it although still in doubt.
So what have I been doing? Well I was told that I could swim, use the bike and the rower and the resistance machines, but definately no weight bearing until the results of the scan/xray come through so every day I've been down at the gym doing just that. I've also rooted out an old callanetics video which I used years ago and found very good for toning. I'd recommend it to anyone if you can keep stand the slowness of the exercises.
I've also hired a lovely automatic car because I'm not insured to drive a manual transmission one at a fairly reasonable (but still expensive) cost. At least I can get about.
The other gripe is that I have to stay off work yet again. I think the head's getting fed up with me always being off for one thing or another. I don't want to be off work. I hate being stuck at home all the time and would much rather be in work even though the kids can be little scrotes at times. I like them really.
Well for anyone unfortunate enough to have read all of this my apologies but I needed to get it all off my chest.
I've got a fracture boot on my left leg and I'm fed up.
I hope I can post something a little more uplifting next time. If anyone reading this has any suggestions I'd be more than grateful for them. Meanwhile the FLM is in abeyance. I reckon Paula Radcliffe's dropped out because there'll be no competition left if I defer till next year ;)
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