Hang in there. In the same boat, since I retired in 2015, it seems like I’ve been just getting injuries fixed. Mine were wear and tear, nothing NEW really just tired of being in constant pain and limping around.
I’m 15 months post Achilles repair and debridement/ Haglund removal / Baumann procedure / Bursa removal all via a Speed Bridge.
During PT I developed a nagging pop and a click in my Peroneal and ended up getting the groove in the bone deepened because it was popping out, followed that with 2 rounds of PRP to rejuvenate the tendon. Success was doubtful but worth the try to me, and luckily I was a responder.
I am now 4 months post the latter and so far so good, running 5 days a week 20-30min, lifting 3 days a weeks, almost back on track and most of all PAIN FREE.
Trust the process, its slower that we’re older but it comes along, don’t rush PT, I had a couple setbacks during recovery, we reassessed and came up with another attack plan and it worked.
I started rucking again, once a week, minimum an hour and building weight in my pack. Its a good low impact session that works the lower legs great when walking on uneven terrain.
Steve, that sucks, man. You were killing it so it stinks you got the injury bug.
Yeah, my surgery will also include deepening the groove in the bone. Plus the complete repair to the retinaculum.
Doc said 4-6 months to complete recovery.
Thanks man. For a while there I really missed the sport but over the last year or so, it’s died down. I still follow the sport, though not as much anymore as I just don’t have the time. And I don’t get fomo from not racing. Oddly, It’s been kinda nice to not have that itch to chase high end performance. Maybe I will feel differently if I can start running pain free again but I’m in no rush.
I had a stint of 2-3 years mixed with Covid a few times none of which were severe, but two of those turned into long Covid… mixed with several lower body injuries.. an adductor, hamstring and then calf injury. Made for a frustrating stint of not being able to train or race well for the varying reasons.
Mobility and strength training are mandatory for me if I want to stay uninjured. I also started taking a men’s over 50 multivitamin as I read someone found some of the included supplements to help with muscle/tendon issues for us old guys.
It is frustrating though, we’re not spring chickens anymore but don’t like sitting around either. Good luck in your surgery, healing and future sporting endeavors.
Agree 100 percent. I had an itch to race but now none, want to run a destination marathon in early spring, that’s about it. Like you said maybe it’ll change but right now I look at my TT bike I built up that’s never hit the road and I want to sell it. I just turned 50, have two great dogs, two grandsons now and oh yeah…a cool ass wife so we’ll see. Maybe it’s depression who knows.
Holy cow!
Why not do open water swim races - swimming much less stressful on the body than running. There are things like Oceanman races.
Surgery tomorrow!
My wife spoke to a guy yesterday that said he had the surgery a few years ago and he said the recovery sucked.
Hope it goes well, at least you’re retired and don’t have to rehab while working.
Sure but I’d rather be running, cycling, golfing, etc.
Being retired and all. 
The biggest mindshift i had to make was look where you are now and not look back to where you were.I started to enjoy my training again when i made that mind shift.Fro a practical point of view a changed a lot of my tarmac running to running with my dog in the mountain and entering more swim events.I realy hope it helps you a little bit.
all the best, trust the process. time to binge watch shit
A simple rhetorical/editorial question, from an former English Major, with little or no import whatsoever
Was there any thought given when titling this the thread between “I fucking give up!” vs. “I give the fuck up!”
I’d probably use the latter, as that’s how I’d usually say it
YMMV
Carry on
In the last 10 years. I’ve had both hip labrum’s repaired, different weird things on both my elbows that needed surgery. My right knee has been a fuckary, PCL done 3x, LCL, Popliteus, IT band z lengthening, in December they had to reattach my Popliteus and LCL because I pulled them out of my femur. Had an infection after the last surgery and was on IV antibiotics for a month.
I’m working on my buy 10 get a surgery free card but they don’t have one apparently. I just started running this week. Trust me you’re not even close to the give up stage. You need to deal with it and move on. I do feel bad for you though, it always sucks when stuff like this this happens.
I’ve been off the board for a while, and not really looking to return just at moment, but I couldn’t lurk your post @The_GMAN_Retired
In 2015 I tore my ATFL (ankle ligament) which required about 6 months of waiting, mris and then surgery. A pretty long recovery, but by chance I’d had the same on my left ankle 10 years earlier so knew what I was in for. Anyway did all the recovery and rehab, and met my coach to restart the training on a thursday lunchtime. Monday 6am - in pilates of all things, but interestingly doing pretty much same exercise you were doing, and I had been doing as part of rehab for 3 months, I snapped my peroneal tendon. And that was gutting…
So back to the drawing board, a long delay due to some silliness with the health insurers, and then I’ll be honest the post surgery recovery from the tendon was a lot worse than the ligament(s). But I got through it and honestly after 2 years of injury/rehab came back a new person. It was hard at time, but mentally I took strength from comparing myself to last month, not 5 years earlier.
Then of course the stroke hit me, and I went through it all again.
And today, well after missing my target marathon for the year due to some health issues for my elderly parents, then my flight being unable to land for my ‘plan B’ and so not making the start of that marathon, and finally 3 weeks out from ‘attempt C’ I’ve pulled my hammy, then I feel you.
I found that keeping mentally engaged in things was vital for me. Lego, drawing, jigsaws, baking. And normally a mix of all. Got to fill those 20 odd hours a week of not training. Ok, can’t bake for the next month as I assume you are full non weight bearing and even then will be cast and finally moonboot? But that time will come. And once you are ‘free’ then the discipline and familiarity of training will make you able to recover far faster than 'the general popln’.
Stay strong, mentally and physically. Revel not in what you can’t do, but the hundreds (thousands) of things that you can, far more than you’d ever have time to do. Indeed use this time where you wouldn’t have time to do things beyond tri to experiment with other things guilt free.
Good to see you posting again. Man, sorry to hear about all that. I feel you.
I have a date with the doc next Friday for first post-op to get the sutures and cast/splint removed. Totally non-weight bearing until then. If things are okay I will move to the boot. I assume some PT comes next.
Moral of both our stories: don’t do resisted lateral lunges. 
Ahh, that’s good. As mine was the actual tendon then it was 2 weeks non WB half cast, then 4 weeks non WB cast and into moonboot. That said I got the cast cut off and into the moonboot at the hospital and 45mins later I was sat on my trainer doing a 20min zwift. When I went back to see surgeon 6 weeks later even he was surprised by how quickly I’d managed to progress the rehab to the point that there wasn’t much difference left to right.
In the grand scheme of things, with all that is going on in my life, and the world, then I’m grateful that not being able to run a marathon I was never going to win is up there on things that people think would annoy/upset me.
That said, I did find that you can end up spending more on lego and baking gadgets than even tri ‘stuff’ unless you are very careful. Especially when boredom, tramadol and stored credit card details combine with internet shopping.
That said, Road Bike 11380 | LEGO® Icons | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop NZ is a great build and good one to start with.