Well indoor season has officially began. As I mentioned in my previous post I was actuallay quite excited for this. This is the time of year where we get to do speed stuff. And short, fast sets on the track can actually be really fun. Yesterday we started with nothing too crazy, 4x150m with 250m jog recovery. But I was feeling quite good and did 25s for the first two and 26s for the next two. Hard to compare that to anything right now though, especially since it's kind of an awkward distance. I'm glad we get to start with this kind of stuff though because last year I was dealing with injuries and missed most of the speed work on the trrack. I felt like I was missing something once I was good to go and we switched to longer distances. Speaking of injuries, it's not always the good news that makes it onto this blog...
My shoulders suck. That's pretty much the only way of putting it. I have been dealing with these injuries for about 3 years now and it's not fun. I have solved some of the problems like range of motion. There was a very depressing time when I couldn't lift my arm high enough to brush my teeth (uh oh there I go talking about brushing my teeth... but I promise this once it is relevant!). I also had issues such as bicep tendonitis, deltoid bursitis, rotator cuff strain, and more with nice complicated names. To put it into simple terms: it hurt, it sucked. So now we are going through extra screening and xrays to try to solve this problem for good. It may now be an issue with my neck, or also partly because of my crash in summer. Because I haven't been swimming since then and it's gotten worse, to the point where it was causing headaches and I was on painkillers everyday. I was quite sad when the rest of my team began swimming and I could not.
We are also having meetings this week with parents/coach/psycologist/athlete. I'm struggling a bit with filling out the form, with goals specific to individual sports. I'm tired of putting for the swim: 'get un-injured finally and swim.' Or something along those lines. It's depressing. It seems like such a pathetic goal but what else can I really ask for? It's not like I can start improving my technique or hitting time standards until I can actually get in the pool.
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