Physio today - yee gods my right glute

Wow.

Max's elbow in my right glute. Excruciating. Which means it was needed!

Solicitor Liz reckons it maybe time to explore settling - once get medical report. 

Driving back to Ashtead, lower back sore, was an uncomfortable drive. 

So I guess lots to be positive about but also lots still to do. Max would like to see me once a month for 9months just to get me back to where I was when knocked off my bike. I am also loving having a coach! 

Signed up for the Stubbington 10k  11/1/26

My goal?

To go sub 60mins 

New post accident parkrun PB = 32.41

I'm sat in my living room feeling like I've been jumped on from a huge hight. My entire body is sore!!

This cannot all be from my morning's post accident parkrun pb. It might also be because of the whole trying a carry the sofabed with mattress out of the flat last night (failed) 

Although the very sore groin and lower back plus glutes and hamstrings is probably the parkrun pb 

Upper body and core is probably the sofabed 🤔

Sofa-bed impromptu workout

I cannot stress this enough.

If you are moving a sofa-bed out of your flat into your neighbours then you must must must remove the little feet of the sofa and the mattress.

Sometimes I surprise myself with my stupidity 

My poor neighbours friend who was a total superstar trying but ultimately failing to get the sofa-bed out of the flat with the mattress still inside. It's so obvious now. A mattress is heavy. The feet make the sofa wider. 

They took the cushions and mattress last night and made a nest on the floor 🥰 Hopefully we can get the base out today and it's not too broken due to a ridiculous amount of kicking and shoving when it kept getting stuck. 

Outlaw 2026 entered

2nd time lucky

I'm now all set for July 2026 to try again to do a full Ironman distance triathlon

3.8k swim - I suggested I could do the swim in 90mins

180k cycle - no idea but I'd like to get to a minimum of 25km / hour a average so approx 7.5hours 

42.2km run (a marathon) - again no real idea but under 6 hours 

This would take my time to under 16 hours as long as my transitions weren't too faffie. 

I'm very happy with a goal of a time that starts with fifteen hours and then the minutes 🥰

I'm feeling super confident 

Mr Liss thinks I'm absolutely on schedule for doing the distance 

I've got Coach Emma, soton tri club and all my running / tri buddies

I also know what to expect so I have a huge respect for the distance and my need to do the training. 

So all in all, I'm feeling brilliant 

Very excited 

And amazed that less than 26months ago I had to learn how to walk again and now look at me 🥳

#SlowlyCarefullyGently

#LizzieGoesLong xx

Recovery Tuesday & medical exam

Mr Liss reckons another 6 months and then I'll be fully recovered. These niggles are fine. They will get better. Once I settle I'll be able to properly recover and move on from the 15/7/23 and that life changing accident. 

Sore back 

Sore glutes

Sore groin 

But they're not as bad / sore as they were xx