Oh noooooo!!
https://www.tri247.com/triathlon-news/elite/lucy-charles-barclay-hip-injury
She was destined to have such a great (at least I think so). This sucks and yes sport can be really really tough. I hope she recovers quickly and comes back stronger than ever!!
Damn…….:(((((((((((
Absolutely sucks.
She’ll be back for the 2nd half of the season
Oh noooooo!!
https://www.tri247.com/...s-barclay-hip-injury
She was destined to have such a great (at least I think so). This sucks and yes sport can be really really tough. I hope she recovers quickly and comes back stronger than ever!!
Damn…….:(((((((((((Bummer for her. Some discussion on this thread: Lucy isn’t showing up on start lists and is pretty quiet on SM Opens up St George where she was set to dominate.
Oh noooooo!!
https://www.tri247.com/...s-barclay-hip-injury
She was destined to have such a great (at least I think so). This sucks and yes sport can be really really tough. I hope she recovers quickly and comes back stronger than ever!!
Damn…….:(((((((((((Bummer for her. Some discussion on this thread: Lucy isn’t showing up on start lists and is pretty quiet on SM Opens up St George where she was set to dominate.
Bummer indeed, for her and the fans. She is box office. I hope she gets back soon.
Theses been something wrong with her for a while now if you follow her socials.
And even someone on here said she hasn’t been entering races or on entry lists for a long time.
I suspect this is from a while ago and she almost already better.
Still won’t race st george but the time line doesn’t match up right.
Still totally suck for her and her team.
Lucky she is young
And even someone on here said she hasn’t been entering races or on entry lists for a long time.
I suspect this is from a while ago and she almost already better.
Still won’t race st george but the time line doesn’t match up right.
If she can recover quickly, she can switch her focus to Sub8 (early June) against Nicola Spirig.
She says she’s out of sub 8-- says it ‘out of the question’
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Very unfortunate, for sure. I’ve known several athletes with hip stress fractures (sf’s) and i’ve had 3 foot sf’s. It is challenging to stay off of it but there are actually lots of exercises that can be done safely to preserve fitness/strength early on and more after a few weeks. She needs to talk to her docs about choices of exercises-and preferably a sports doc who knows who she is and what level.
One of my friends was doing very aggressive water running after the first 2 weeks-and continued it for a month after. Didn’t lose any fitness really at all. If I remember, he had a PR at his event a few months later. He also did swimming with a PB that started a week or two after his diagnosis. He made sure there was absolutely no kick motion as that can delay healing.
Another thing that is hard for most of us is weight gain when you take out the big number of exercise calories that you lose and the adjustment that must be made…
One thing she definitely doesn’t quite understand is that is simply an ‘overuse’ injury. Mental stressors do NOT affect the bone. That aspect can affect a lot of things, but it will clearly not cause a stress fracture.
She should be back to training at ~6-8 weeks and if done right, without too much loss of fitness. It may take another 6-8 weeks of graduated training to get back to her prior fitness level.
I wish her the very best.
She says she’s out of sub 8-- says it 'out of the question’Will Nicola Spririg still do it then? Who else (ie a replacement)?
ugh, I’m always sorry to hear when people get fractures 
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Another thing that is hard for most of us is weight gain when you take out the big number of exercise calories that you lose and the adjustment that must be made…
I don’t know if it’s the case for Lucy but often times RED-S and low body fat contribute to the cause of SFX, especially in women, so gaining weight during recovery can be a good thing sometimes.
April fools joke???
Nope, it was released on March the 31st.
Bummer.
As a side note: would expecting LCB to have said something earlier, rather than going quiet for no apparent reason, have been too much? It’s almost like she’s only going to post positive material. Even an injury is about “the road to recovery” for her - not about everything else associated with an injury that is, you know, bad. It’s a very very polished way to run a vlog. It’s obviously Lucy’s right to run the vlog the way she sees fit. (No pun intended).
As a side note: would expecting LCB to have said something earlier, rather than going quiet for no apparent reason, have been too much? It’s almost like she’s only going to post positive material. Even an injury is about “the road to recovery” for her - not about everything else associated with an injury that is, you know, bad. It’s a very very polished way to run a vlog. It’s obviously Lucy’s right to run the vlog the way she sees fit. (No pun intended).
Stress fracture only came up very recently. Reece had a heart scare earlier in the year which was the real reason for going so quiet. Stress of that probably didn’t help Lucy’s hip
Reece did not look good in that vlog, looked skinny and ill in the short footage of him training.
Is the heart issue confirmed? If so I would imagine they kept quiet not just for the medical reasons, but also because it is guaranteed to lead to conversation over vaccines etc and that is dodgy ground for everyone, especially professional athletes who make their money from sport and sponsors.
Edit. It did seem at first that she was suggesting mental stress contributed, but then she did add that she might have suffered some trauma in training.
Is the heart issue confirmed?.
Yes, Reece put up a post on his insta yesterday. He says things are better and he has returned to training. He mentions being investigated for ‘AF’ and ‘HCM’ in the comments, I’m sure that will mean something to those more knowledgeable!
edit: My first thought on hearing the news was how the diet chnages they made last hear could have affected such a hip issue. I never watched that particular video so don’t know what they ended up changing, and I’ll guess we’ll never know for sure, but thought the timing of such an injury was interesting
Stress fracture only came up very recently. Reece had a heart scare earlier in the year which was the real reason for going so quiet. Stress of that probably didn’t help Lucy’s hip
Oh, I had no idea. That sucks. Neither of them deserves this…
I’ve been following Richard Murray’s and TO’s “heart scares”. They took it like true champs but of course couldn’t conceal their anxiety if they tried. Hopefully there’s a straight road in front of the Charles-Barkley duo. No criticism from me whatsoever on going silent.
Is the heart issue confirmed?.
Yes, Reece put up a post on his insta yesterday. He says things are better and he has returned to training. He mentions being investigated for ‘AF’ and ‘HCM’ in the comments
AF=Atrial Fibrillation
HCM=Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
As a side note: would expecting LCB to have said something earlier, rather than going quiet for no apparent reason, have been too much? It’s almost like she’s only going to post positive material. Even an injury is about “the road to recovery” for her - not about everything else associated with an injury that is, you know, bad. It’s a very very polished way to run a vlog. It’s obviously Lucy’s right to run the vlog the way she sees fit. (No pun intended).
Stress fracture only came up very recently. Reece had a heart scare earlier in the year which was the real reason for going so quiet. Stress of that probably didn’t help Lucy’s hip
just watched the video - she seems pretty broken up about it. really sucks for both of them, for sure.
2022 - an already stranger year - gets stranger again. lucy’s not just fast but plays such an important role in driving race dynamics. her absence changes the race dynamics massively.
One thing she definitely doesn’t quite understand is that is simply an ‘overuse’ injury. Mental stressors do NOT affect the bone. That aspect can affect a lot of things, but it will clearly not cause a stress fracture.
ArmchairMD diagnosis aside…
Mental stress won’t break a bone, but mental stress leading to careless workouts/form can contribute.