ROM getting better!

So my hip flexion and extension are getting better. I can do seated hip flexion and extension, not at a very dramatic degree but doing it none the less! Also my standing knee flexion is getting so much better...really hoping that when rehab starts I can be ready. I crutched happy today loyal reader...please continue to run happy!!

Progress.

So since I can no longer make this about my running, i will make it about my recovery.First off though a special congrats to all the friends I have and those I have yet to meet that are associated with the Penang I-Run group, on their first (for some) Triathlon...its a great feeling to accomplish a difficult task such as this, so a standing ovation to you all, you are Triathletes!! I have not been seriously injured as an athlete for well over 15 years (knee injury/ice hockey). It is very different having been so significantly envenomed by the running bug, to now be completely static...i mean even when I had days off I knew there would be a run the next day. At this point, my body does not know what to do...I feel like the puppy at the window, waiting for his owner to show up with the leash to go out. I am not sure how I am going to deal with 3 months of this. I am also praying every day that the surgery was done in enough time, to my hip and the femoral head is not necrotic. If that happens, the surgery was for nothing, and I will be off to Singapore for a full hip replacement...that will not be good.From everything I have read a full hip replacement means my running career is over, now at 40, that would be a total suck fest!! I am also itchy as hell, I think the anti biotic that they were giving me has dried out my skin, especially my scalp which is itchy as all get out!! Well I cant find my road ID either, I know I had it on during the ride, all I can think of is since the arm i wear it on is the same one that I broke my wrist, and the hospital pictures don't include it...I am thinking the EMS guys cut it off, really glad I had it though, this is one of those times that make an investment in a road ID totally worth it!! So, recovery stuff, I took a shower on my own this AM, and yesterday I was able to do some standing knee flexion like 10 times, will do the same thing today. I also continue to do my seated knee flexion, at least 10 -20 times. I cannot as of yest do any adduction or abduction of my hip, and there is allot of swelling, posterior to the hip joint, its not as bad as it was, but very noticeable...I imagine it will go down in time. My wrist feels ok, although that is not preventing me from running, and my head injury is healing, but there is still a nice knot underneath it. Yesterday I looked up, got some advice on and sent some emails to, some local sports rehab places, the best being the one at Island hospital, at least according to the friends I have in the running and cycling groups, so when I can, I will check in there and begin my road back.
So I think that is it for today, I am living each day in the positive as best as I can...heck it cant get any worse...unless the head of the femur is necrotic...that would qualify as worse. Run Happy loyal reader, and do so for me!

Day off (there is going to be alot of them)

So...yeah...day off...sucks!! Proud of the group from here (I-Run) that did the Port Dickinson Triathlon this weekend....all really good times that they should be proud of...hopefully I can join them next year!!
Run Happy loyal reader...I will be crutching happily!!

Bad Accident

So on the way back from Balik Pulau, I crashed...not sure (still) where or when, but bits and pieces are coming back...soft sand...climbing back up wit my bike still clipped to my shoe...screaming for help...Seeing my friends Chun, Me Ling, Eric and Francis...I am not completely sure of any of these, they are all hazy memories. I don't even remember being in the Ambulance or the Hospital initially...but Brenna took these pictures to prove it.

So after the 14 or so stitches to close the gash on my head, the soft cast and later the hard cast, and the two wires to repair my broken wrist. the surgery to repair my broken hip (using 2 screws to reattach the femoral head). I was now in the hospital till yesterday afternoon.

so now i am finally home..a bit rested and a bit sore, but home. i would say that the Florida runner in Penang is on hiatus for at least 6 months...may be 8. thank you all for your kind words of healing, and well wishes. I will be back...loyal reader... run happy!!

The cross-training was a killer!!

Ok, so as you all know, I started biking and swimming to balance my running. The swimming has been haphazard at best, the biking a bit more so. I decided on Sunday (17/07) that I would join the big group and head up to Balik Pulua, past the dam where James and i went a few weeks back. the ride was fun, we took some picks near the dam and then a bit further up.

 Then we went for some breakfast "Laska is good!!"...on the way back things did not goo well!! as great a morning as it was the afternoon went all the way in the other direction.

I crashed...big time...

Stay tuned...

Your favorite Floridian runner in Penang will return soon with a tale (and photos) you won't believe!  Only he can do it justice...this Florida runner in Penang's wife can't fill his shoes:-)

Thursday 10K.

Up at 4:45AM and out the door by 5:00...This is how it will have to be for me until September...with Brenna home from school, I have to get my run in before Rox goes to work. so this morning it was 6.2 miles down to the esplanade and back. Weather was nice and I was able to train as my program says, between 1:30 - 2 min slower than my intended 1/2 marathon pace. 52:00, 8:14 pace, felt good!!so tomorrow I will try the same thing, and Sunday could be a bike ride, a trail run, or my normal 10 miles. I ran happy loyal reader!!