Keeping on

I am at that slightly bored and antsy stage of recovery. The part where you stop looking at social media because you are sick of seeing pictures of your friends out exercising and enjoying themselves. The bit where improvements are good, but never enough. I can't believe it has only been two weeks.

Actually I shouldn't complain to much. So far this recovery has been an easy one. I have had pain, but not a lot. I haven't really lost much mobility and I have been able to train at least a bit. There aren't many injuries that would allow you to be back and doing some training after only a week of rest and recovery. The frustration I am feeling comes not from the lack of training, but more from the lack of variety, not being able to train in the way I would like to. This morning I was on the trainer or the third morning in a row. Not being able to get on the bike, whilst watching all my friends enjoy being on the bike is doing my head in just a little bit. It isn't that I mind being on the trainer, I quite enjoy it, but it starts to get to you when you can't do anything else. Particularly when it is lovely outside.

Still it could be worse. I could not be able to train at all, which would really drive me crazy. At least I can actually do exercise, start the rebuild process now.

Speaking of rebuilding, the elephant in the room is running. Running had been improving nicely up until the injury. Obviously now that I have been injured a loss in fitness and form is inevitable, however, I am keen to limit it as much as I can. It would be nice if I didn't have to rebuild this one from scratch once I get the all clear to run again. On Tuesday I mentioned the surprisingly intense stair session that I had, and I think that sort of session will help to keep me ticking over. I am not expecting miracles but I am working on the theory that every little bit will help.

My next little bit was going to be some walking hill repeats this afternoon, but I decided earlier today to leave that until the morning instead. I still can't do too much work on the walking/running front and so a few sessions a week is about my limit. Moving one of those from Thursday to Friday will not make much difference. Plus leaving it until tomorrow morning will give me a break from the trainer too. Besides, if I am perfectly honest, my legs are still killing me from Tuesday's stair repeats. I am not sure I could face a long walk today.

As frustrating as I am finding some of these sessions, I realistically only have another week or so of them. I will probably be back on the road bike not long after Christmas so I probably only have a week or so of Kickr session to get through, which I think I can manage. With running I am looking to start incorporating Alter-G treadmill sessions into my recovery as early as next week. So things are not exactly going to have a chance to stagnate. Well not on the running and riding front anyway.

While the above covers me for riding and at least some sort of running I have no idea what to do about swimming. Daryl has given me some ideas and I am touching base with Paul to get some more, but I am just not convinced I can put together an effective swim session with only one arm. Not a session that really achieves anything anyway. I definitely want to get into the pool, try and maintain some feel for the water, but there is only so much kick and one arm swimming that you can do. If I can figure something out then the plan is to head down to the pool and give it a go tomorrow as well.

One day at a time.