Originally Posted by Racingboo

Hey, Koffee, thanks for the input, I appreciate it.

I am indeed off the bike, went for acupuncture with a guy who also is knowledgable about massage (and fully qualified in both disciplines) and I'm following his instructions - no exercise whatsoever except easy walking until the pain is completely gone (even if that means little or no activity for several weeks), after that some easy biking and swimming to start with.



Everything you said there were points I realised myself over the last week, and confirm what I felt was at the bottom of my problem. The acupuncturist said exactly the same: "Listen to your body, it's telling you you're doing things wrong." I felt as if my body was out of my control, and am only starting to feel as if I'm wrestling things back into my own hands today. The acupuncturist said another thing which made me understand better where I was messing up: "It's like a bank balance, and you were making withdrawals without having made deposits. Injury is like going into overdraft."



We have a gym nearby with a specialist triathlon trainer working with them, but there's not much I can do about joining until around half way through January. Until then, I'll rather be safe than sorry where exercise is concerned.



I'm still not sure tri is what I want to do, and should maybe just scrape together the courage to ask questions about it on the forums. As for rushing, it certainly wasn't my intention. The injury resulted from one day of being stupid and going on "But I feel great, sure I can go another few miles!" instead of "Look, I've come the distance I'd planned to do, let me go home now even though I'm really enjoying myself." I think my planned training programme in general is not too harsh. Even so, there are a few changes I want to make to it to take things even easier, and there are long reasons for that which I'm sure will bore you silly so I won't go into it here.



*blushes* I wasn't exactly training, in my view. I was doing my normal happy cycling and was planning to start a 'proper' training programme in the week following my folly. That has obviously not happened. I went for a short cycle after just more than a week's rest, it went well, so next I did a very short and easy run, but had some pain again and stopped immediately.

I wouldn't dream of even in my wildest fantasies aspiring to do anything like a pro. Pro and me don't really feel comfortable on the same page, never mind in the same sentence. I'm going to stop now and spill my angst on this subject elsewhere, as it would be going off topic.

Koffee, thanks from the bottom of my heart for your input. A lot of what you said resonated with and confirmed conclusions I'd reached independently, and I needed that confirmation.

Racingboo