Update

Tiger Angel's surgery went as well as expected. The surgeon's opening words afterwards were "well, there were about 5 major pieces...". Three plates and lots of screws later, she's a pretty sore and sorry pussy cat. None of you will be surprised, however, to hear that she refuses to sit back and let other do everything. She cut the carrots tonight by lying the carrot on the chopping block and swinging a large knife down from shoulder height! The results were described as "rustic". :-) :-)

Back to the surgeon on Monday to see how it's going and get the cast changed to something a little more waterproof (not that that implies swimming - that's a fair way off yet). For the moment we're just walking, although TA's allowed to start on a stationary bike at the gym (not the wind trainer at home - that's much too unstable).

I'm not up to jogging yet, though I'm hopeful that I might be able to try a little something this weekend. We live in hope :-)

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This is getting ridiculous

Short and sweet. Tiger angel slipped over last week and broke her arm pretty badly. She's having surgery tomorrow morning (expected 3 hours) to have a bunch of plates and screws put in. No driving or using her arm for 4 to 5 weeks. Not likely to be able to run for at least that long. The good news is that her hip is starting to get better (why do I feel like screaming at this point???).

In a similar but far, far less serious manner, I think I cracked a rib on Saturday so I'm not running either. Can you believe that we're actually talking about walking the C2S, more out of stubbornness than anything else...

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Another two weeks go by

After a careful but consistent ramp up, I figured that it was time for an easy week last week, and then right back into it this week. Hence, last week was limited to 20k (5k tue, 5k thur& 10k at the CR5k). The 5k went well. On the basis of times I've been doing in training, I set out for 22:30. Managed to pull an extra 5 seconds/k off that and ended with 21:57. That's ok for where I'm at.

This week I've done 6k tues, 12k wed, 5k thurs & 10k at striders this morning. On the basis of the 5k time, I aimed for 45 minutes and (with the help of CR OverTheHill when the going got tough in the 6-7k zone) I managed 44:38. Again, better than expected, though it was hard work and I wanted to give up and just relax quite a few times.

I'm intending to do 18k tomorrow, but a combination of Micro's footy being early and on the other side of Sydney followed closely by the Swans game means that I'll have to run at night. Not my favourite time :-( Anyhow, it should make for a 50k week which is right on track.

Tiger angel's hip continues to malfunction. She had a Cortisone injection under Ultrasound this week. The ultrasound indicated that it is a combination of bursitis and tendonopathy. She managed to get through similar problems with her Achilles by carefully following a specific treatment of eccentric exercises, so there's no reason why she won't be able to do it again this time. Pretty tough though (but then, so's she :-) ).

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