monty wrote:
I feel for you Allison, you should not be going through this kind of stuff at your age, it should be a thing 20 years from now at the earliest. All of us in our 60's and up know this dynamic, but we have had time and experience to deal with it mentally, not something for you to have to deal with. Just keep doing what appears to be the right thing, and realize it may take months, years to get back to your normal. Most likely it will come, you kids heal fast and have great recuperative powers, just have to give your body the time, space, and patience it needs..Great thing about us triathletes, is that when something is hurt or broken, we can often do the other thing to keep the wheels turning. Find some peace in that during this time and let the swimming just come back to you in its own time, dont rush it...
+1 to this..
my first serious run injury was 2 (two) months after starting regular run training, that was 50 years ago..
had many others run and swim since then, so far it's been possible to come back from all of them, with patience and a good PT (they're all good actually)
Dr T, we're all sending you healing thoughts..
my late update, two swims in Australia, one in a delightful 50m saltwater pool beachside at Scarborough near Perth, another in the ocean there.
Ocean swim the jellyfish got me in the armpit ow. That's why people prefer the pool I guess ;-)
Pool, 30x50m turns out to be much harder than 30x50yd. Also quite a few people in the fast lane who should not have been there, had to route around them or wait at start to let them get ahead. I was thoroughly jetlagged so didn't mind the wait.. ha.
