Golf has too many rules
Fading
Again, OMG I live here!
I won a trophy today
Sunny days on the Gower
46 days post-fracture
Spiral fracture of the distal shaft of the fifth metatarsal bone of my left foot
X-ray
Broken
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July 5, 2011
August 16, 2010
Golf has too many rules
I was complaining about the number of rules in golf in a 365 Flickr photo last week and then this happens in the USPGA:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/8916112.stm
April 30, 2010
Fading
The results from Llandovery triathlon are in and they look nice for me. I had a fast swim, which I knew, but I also had the fastest bike split. That's very nice as I don't think I'm biking very well yet. My bike fitness has only just caught up with January levels.
I gave up all my advantage on the run with a very slow (>19mins!) 5km run split. That makes sense of course, as I'd only just started running again that week, 4 weeks after having the plaster cast cut off my left leg. It will take a while to regain that run fitness and speed. It'll be fun though! I wonder if getting off the bike and hammering a 17min run will be doable?
Results aside it was a fun afternoon. It was great to hammer the bike & it's the first time it has been used in anger. My swimming has really improved as I've not been allowed to run so have spent much more time in the pool. Getting my feet on my shoes out of T1 is going to need a bit of thinking about and a lot more practice, and I've now worked out how to get my Garmin to pick up my heart rate when I get out of the pool. I'm sure I've got a much better idea of pacing a sprint distance triathlon too.
This was my third triathlon and they've been rather spaced out. 1996, 2003 and 2010. I think I might do a few more this year though.
All of this points to one thing: I'm going to get faster.
April 25, 2010
April 24, 2010
I won a trophy today
Hmm, not much of a race report for this one, from the Llandovery sprint triathlon.
Swam fast (fastest ever), got on my bike (ooh, tricky), cycled fast (no idea how fast yet, but caught lots of slower fish), got off the bike (also tricky), put slippery, heavily vaselined shoes on and ran hard (ow, fully stitched, tough to breathe) then ran harder (probably got some proper speed up eventually) and crossed the finish line ready to puke.
Surprisingly I was 3rd overall but shhh, don't tell anyone - I'm not supposed to be running yet. Very nice. Lots of fun & I learnt a lot.
March 24, 2010
February 8, 2010
Spiral fracture of the distal shaft of the fifth metatarsal bone of my left foot
After a very brief assessment in fracture clinic this morning (and all that was needed) I had a load bearing cast wrapped around my leg, ankle and foot to replace the weekend's temporary backslap plaster cast.
The verdict: 6 weeks in a cast, no load bearing for 2 weeks, expect 8-12 weeks before walking with little pain. That rather dulls the 2010 racing season for me.
It is what it is and there's no point crying about it. I'll sit down and look at the year I had planned. I'll probably add a half-marathon to the end of the year (Cardiff maybe) to extend it and try to get under 80 minutes, and remember my long term goals. Races up to July will have new goals of "finish the race" and "learn". Training to that point and from July to October is unplannable at this stage. I'll get into the gym & work on the rest of my body, although walking on crutches is already helping that. I think I may be able to come up with some lightweight elastic band exercises but I can't exercise my left calf muscles at all, and I have to be careful of damaging the cast.
It is what it is.
February 6, 2010
February 5, 2010
Broken
Oh dear. I broke my foot this morning. I foolishly left too much crap in the hall downstairs, and when I ran downstairs to answer the door I was looking at the stuff instead of where I was placing my feet. I missed the bottom step, landed heavily and inverted my left foot. I couldn't walk it off and a rather nice haematoma had appeared by the time I took my sock off a little later, so I spent the afternoon in A&E/X-ray/fracture clinic. I have a spiral fracture of the shaft of my 5th metatarsal.
I've got plaster on for the weekend & will get reassessed on Monday. I'll probably get a walking cast put on then.
Bugger. I guess I'll level all my World of Warcraft characters to level 80 then.
October 29, 2009
I love Halloween
I've always loved Halloween, maybe from an interest in all things ghoulish (and I guess that interest may have lead me to my current job).
Go and get your Halloween wallpaper:
- Lifehacker: Wallpaper Roundup: All Hallow's Eve and Spooky Scenes
September 2, 2009
August 12, 2009
Bones
Now that's a vertebrate! I'd love to spend more time looking at dinosaur bones and the similarities between vertebrates on separate evolutionary destinations. Does anyone fancy another museum trip?
