Ow, ow, ow and a short paddle

Today my SIJ is even worse. Every step hurts, and it particularly hurts to get up from any position. By the time I got home from work it was hurting constantly. I couldn't get comfortable in any position - sitting, lying on my back, tummy, side. But whilst playing with the boys it started to feel a bit better (or maybe that was just the anti-inflamatories working) so I decided I would try a paddle. I wanted to see how it felt paddling so I could give some feedback to the physio tomorrow.

Once seated in the K1 it was just a dull ache, so Anton and I just did a slowish paddle. Mark had put a hose on the front of the K1 (for resistance training) and I managed a bridge lap with it, but I didn't want to push my back too hard, so I did the rest of the 8km lap without it and just going at a comfortable pace. Anton had no trouble keeping up with me today. I was glad to finish after 1 lap.

How utterly frustrating. My training was going so well - both paddling and running and it absolutely sucks to have this problem. I'll go see a physio as early as I can tomorrow and hopefully it will get better quickly. It's just torture not to be able to train properly. I miss it already!

Crap paddle

Well I just went for a paddle this morning. Last night I started to get a sore throat and thought that maybe I was coming down with what the boys have had. I was hoping that I would feel better this morning. I felt pretty ordinary but thought I'd still go for an easy paddle with Anton (my training buddy) as we had arranged. Well, 100m into it, I realised that I felt pretty crap. We paddled the 8km loop together and stopped several times for Anton to try different seats and for me to have a much needed rest. Man I felt bad! My balance was off, I had no energy and really shouldn't have paddled, but I didn't want to miss the opportunity of a session. Anyway, it was the worst I have felt paddling for a long time. Hopefully I'll get over this quickly and can do another session during the week. It was great to catch up with Anton though and hear all the stories from the Murray Marathon.