Today has been a good day

Delighted with today :)
I had a spa day with chum A for my bday and it was wonderful. Back massage and facial - I could of happily have had that treatment twice. Sooooo relaxed.

Then the gym. I sweated. I got my heart rate up. I walked briskly on the treadmill, used the machines, loved the cross trainer. Very very happy. Great luncheon. Lovely swim, sauna, steam room and kindle reading through till about 4:45pm.

No small paddles in decathlon but bumped into Pam looking at warm coats. I love bumping into mates when you're not expecting to see anyone. Makes everything so much better :)

Co-op for berries for breakfast, made Slimming World friendly supper then caught up on a bit of tivo from the weekend.

But mainly today has been about going to the gym and properly working out. So so sooooo happy.

Yay for scarring tissue knitting ligament back together :)

Well, that's what the consultant thinks may have happened with my ankle and the moonboot. He reckons I can get back doing everything I was doing pre thunder run injury - gently does it at first and no running on uneven surfaces yet. If ankle does turn then go back to GP, do another referal and he'll operate. He doesn't want to do surgery unless really necessary as surgery has its own risks what with blood clots, infection and ankle potentially losing flexibility...

It's a watch this space. But I'm feeling so much happier :)

And then this evening noticed an email from Ironman to say 25 spaces left for Ironman UK in July this year. I'm obviously not signing up for 2016 but I'm hugely tempted to do it in 2017.

Early days, gently gently but I'm excited for what I may be able to do this year. As opposed to being sad for everything I've had to defer or cancel.

Farewell Moonboot xx

The Moonboot is no more!
It's now time for physio and rehab.

Although both physio Sam and I can't quite understand how my flippie flappy ruptured ligament could possibly have reattached itself to my ankle in these last 8 weeks. I guess we'll find out next week when I see my consultant :)

It's fabulous though to be told I can go to the gym, I can work out and even gently power walk on the treadmill. As physio Sam said, if I wasn't a sportswoman I'd manage perfectly fine without this ligament.  I'm not in pain, I can cycle and get about. However, I want to do at least one ironman, plenty more half ironmans plus more marathons. There ain't no way I'll be able to do that unless my ligament plays ball.

So I reckon it could be surgery then time off to recover while sprawled on my sofa watching Netflix.

Ideally by this time next week I'll know exactly what's going on :)

Musings from the Moonboot

If I was a singer songwriter I'd have three hit albums by now - Rocking the Moonboot, Musings from the Moonboot and now Melancholy Moonboot. Sadly I'm not a singer songwriter so instead of a string of sold out concerts jetsetting all over the world I'm sat in my armchair listening to music and staring at my moonbooted right leg.
Siiiigh.

Physio next week and an appointment with my consultant the week after. I'm back at slimmers world and swimming at least once a week with tri club. Making small changes to try and get back into the OF&H groove.

Can I just say that being injured really sucks. Six months since Thunder Run and my over excited night-time 10k run that netted me my ruptured ligaments.

I just want to go for a run!!!!!!

** who'd of thought I'd be wishing for that a few years ago :) **

Patience. Just gotta be patient.

What a fabulous Christmas and New Year

Brilliant couple of weeks of family, friends and food :)

But now it's time to get my focus back on operation fit & healthy. I've got the bare bones of a training plan and went back to the gym yesterday to do one of the les mills classes. Hilarious with the boot but still spent an hour doing stretches, and some strength and conditioning. Plus it must have been good as I can feel it today!!!

So it's back to work and back to of&h. Am definitely excited about the latter :)

Best breakfast ever :)

The moonboot and I having the best breakfast ever in Brighton.

And I think we can all agree that this breakfast spread is pretty darn awesome and screams health health health.

Hoorah for Sarah x

Ruptured ligament = Bummer. 2016 plans = Very excited.

I got a copy of the letter my consultant sent my GP.

"The MRI scan showed a rupture of the anterior talofibular ligament "

Eeeeeek.

"My suggestion would be a moon boot for six weeks then to resume physiotherapy and rehabilitation.  If her ankle performs well, no surgery will be needed. If not, we can repair or reconstruct the ligament"

That's good to know :)

So... Rocking the moon boot till mid Jan 2016 then back to consultant end of Feb 2016.
It'd be fabulous if I don't need surgery.

Events I'm definitely NOT doing next year :-
Stubbington 10k in Jan
Worthing half marathon in Feb
Brighton half marathon in Feb
Running sisters running weekend in March

Events I might be able to do :-
100 Acre Woods half marathon in April (might be a bit soon)
The second race in the Portsmouth duathlon series (again might be a bit soon)
Southampton half marathon in April - (would have to defer again but this time I'd marshal as opposed to run the London marathon :)

If rehabilitation going well...
Winchester sprint triathlon in May
The third race in the Portsmouth duathlon series in May
Hmmmm... Swashbuckler half ironman in May - even if rehab going well it might be a bit too much continuous exercise for my ankle.

And then we can just hope I'm okay by :-
Polsedon Lacey 10k in June
Denbies half marathon in July
Ashtead 10k in Sept
New Forest half marathon in Sept

And then, drum roll please..
The Amsterdam marathon in Oct.

I wonder how much I'll actually get to do?????

But 2016 will also be the year of skinny minnie Lizzie Lou as I go back to fat club and lose 1.5stone to start but hopefully 2.5stone or even 3stone by the end. I'd love to get back down to ten and a half stone.

Plus 2016 is going to be the year of bendy stretchy core-tastic Lizzie Lou as I finally get to grips with properly stretching and sorting out my core.  I'm as stiff as a board, utterly incapable of touching my toes and have a pathetically weak core with little upper body strength. It's stretching, planking and press ups ahoy for 2016 x

So, that's the plan.
Let's see how it shapes up :)

I will of course keep you all posted x