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Time To Get Comfy

My knee has been getting no better really since I hurt it on Friday, so today I did as I told myself I would do, and went to see the doctor after work. Naturally I’ve been looking up knee injuries online and know the full horror of what it could be, I just wanted to know for sure. The good news is that it doesn’t look like it’s anything which will require surgery. I knew it wasn’t ACL, my worries were more MCL or meniscus damage as that’s exactly where the pain is. After being prodded, pulled, twisted and generally manipulated, the concensus is that I have sprained and strained several tendons and possibly ligaments down the outside of my knee. The bad news as such, is that the only thing I can do is rest it and let it heal, and so I’ve been told to stop all training immediately, and to stay that way for at least the next two, possibly three weeks.

The longest I’ve had to go without any training at all in the past has been about a week, so to be told that effectively I might not be doing anything – Tang Soo Do, Kickboxing, running, swimming, etc. – until July is a tough blow to take. Training has been my one outlet lately, my one little escape from everything, and now it’s been taken away from me. Needless to say, after this news, sleeping about 4 hours a night for the last 5 or 6 days, and being in constant pain, I’m not in the best of spirits at the moment.

Still, that’s enough of the melodrama and self-pity, I’ll get better. I’m a lot luckier than some people with knee injuries I know. I’m just going to have to find other things to occupy my time for the foreseeable future. I’m not sure I can face going to training for the next 10-15 sessions and just sitting and watching every time. Don’t get me wrong, I’m only to happy to learn from the sidelines and help out with pads and suchlike, but it’s hideously demoralising, and I could do without it.

Murphy had his boosters yesterday without so much as a yelp, so we went for a celebratory walk limp around the woods after. The vet said he’s about the perfect size and weight, his umbilical hernia is fine, and perhaps the best news of all, he doesn’t need to lose his nuts!

I’m signing off with this today, I think I’ve posted it before but I love it and so you have to listen to it too! (well, you do if you like me and click the ‘play’ button).

I Was A Cub Scout – Pink Squares
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Ever Throwing At His Home, Two Glass Houses, Twenty Stones

It’s feeling to me like some of us could really do with a big lift just about now, for every up there seems to be a big down. The piece of my brain which has tried to adopt some kind of Korean way of thinking would probably just put it down to Um and Yang and that being the way of things, but it doesn’t always help.

So with that in mind, here’s something for everyone feeling a bit that way. For everyone stuck at work wishing they were somewhere far more tropical, for everyone worrying about money (I guess I should return that call from the bank really… maybe after Christmas ;) ), for everyone with a loss of some kind, for everyone with a stinking cold, and for everyone going through the agony of waiting for an injury to heal, here’s a cheery little video made with footage from a competition we attended almost a year ago now. It always makes me smile, but I guess that’s it’s more personal to me. Here’s hoping it marks the bottom of one of those roller-coaster dips for you and a big push up the other side.

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If that doesn’t do the trick, maybe Mr Peter Steele and his lovely cheerful Type O Negative band will! Ok, so they don’t really ‘do’ cheerful, but this one is upbeat and has a funny video! Watch it.

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Running On Empty

That’s what it felt like last night at training, I felt like I had nothing in the tank at all and it was disconcerting. The warm-up/physical to start the class was quite a tiring one, there’s no mistaking that, but afterwards I found my lower ribs around my back were aching, I can only assume it’s because I was breathing so hard. There was a couple of times where I thought ‘I feel like crap, I’m going to have to stop’, but I made myself carry on yet again, and happily made it through.

What got to me though was the fact that it felt like my fitness had almost taken a step backwards, I was gasping and thankful we didn’t have kicking drills which would probably have finished me off. I learned last week that I have my 4th Gup grading in December, and a combination of that and last night’s shock have given me a big kick up the arse to do some serious work now. I’ve been slack when it comes to eating properly lately, and that’s the first thing to be rectified. I notice a marked difference in my energy levels if I don’t eat well, but still ignore it sometimes. Not a good idea when you’re trying to lose weight at the same time!

As I said before my last grading, I want to give a good account of myself this time around, I don’t want there to be any excuses, no failing at something because I simply don’t have the energy. I don’t mind being put through my own personal miniature hell at the start with the physical, but not managing something I know full well I can do is unacceptable now.

Bit of a serious and down post that one I know, It doesn’t happen often and I like seeing it down in words, it’s a good reminder :)

Plus my new venture means that my mind is going to be even more martial arts focused than ever, it’d be hypocritical of me to slack off. More about that another time though.

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