Going down!

 Here is my "fitness and freshness" graph from Strava for the last 6 months.

Going down!

In my last blog I was just starting to hope I'd turned a wee corner and pulling out of Injury Central.

Nope!  What I did was an ill-advised twist and busted a rib on the left hand side - or very likely not a rib but an intercostal muscle because I can no longer feel it and it's not been that long. 6 weeks or something. I was doing a hip thing where you sit and move your legs from one side to the other. If you're game you can roll over and onto your knees and get up from there. I thought I was game but couldn't roll over my swollen knees and hurt my side into the bargain.

When you've hurt your ribs you know but you don't let yourself know right away. So I went another run after that and thought it wasn't too bad. And then I went another run after that and it was too sore and I had to walk home.

I couldn't sleep on that side for weeks.

After a  few days of going about swearing I thought I'd get into some indoor cycling because it can really keep you fit. I pleased myself by knocking out some quite hard sessions and I felt capable again- but I think I maybe tore a muscle in my right calf.

So for a while I couldn't push through it.

I tried another bit of a run just to see if everything wouldn't turn out fine. Then I could barely walk for a few days.

God this is a miserable story. So here we are. Last week was when I could hardly walk. I've started recording my walks to Lidl, in desperation, and counting it as exercise. I have been keeping it conservative, small walks, no heroics, and this week two indoor bike sessions on Zwift,  but no sprints, no racing, no trying to get the green or polka dot jerseys. My left knee hurts a bit. My right knee is all swollen and tight and it hurts behind it. I dread the stairs which is a shame because we live up three flights of stairs. I have to hop and hang onto the bannister to get down. Going up isn't so bad.

So what is wrong with my legs? I have a few theories. Old age, karma, demons, who knows.

That's all for now.