Kevins Training Diary 2022

I have had a bit of an up and down fortnight again.  I have been swimming enough. Not fast, but consistent. And I manage to get in a decent swim in the river. Doing my full 2k distance despite struggling with the cold on the second half, and being borderline hypothermic for the next 20 minutes.  Last weekend I was in Inverness at the North District Championships, retaining my 400m hurdles title again. Then I did the 5k and through 3k was having a great day, but then my hip decided that it was unhappy and almost like a switch it went back to the state it was before I got the injections. And it has stayed like that since. I am back to being in perpetual pain and limping everywhere. But despite that I managed another fast 5k this weekend, missing my PB by just 3 seconds, in a notable wind. But I have limped even worse since then. Then I went out and crashed my new bike, and have cracked the frame. It looks tiny, but I need to get a second opinion and a repair done on it in t...

So I was about due for another stupid injury, and this one was as close as I have been to causing a missed training day for the last 2 years. I had a collision at basketball that compressed my neck and left me with a possible concussion, and a notable neck injury. I went to the GP and the Physio and got contrasting advice, and then obviously followed the one I liked. Two weeks off all training was never going to happen, especially this close to Romania. Being careful, not doing anything risking a potential crash on the bike, avoiding tumble turns, upside-down yoga poses, anything that caused dizziness, nausea or headaches, and not doing anything that caused greater than 4 out of 10 pain in my neck, I could work with that.  I missed the whole week of swimming from that point, and gave up yoga and weights as a precaution. I only did a very short jog on the Wednesday, and I am going to have to fluff my "How little can you do and still call it a session?" down to 0.8 miles to...