Taking Things a Bit Slower
Last Saturday, while playing soccer for ANU FC, I managed to do a fair bit of damage to my left leg. I was goal keeping (and playing quite well actually) and ran out to punch a ball away and twisted and landed the wrong way. I ended up tearing my quad muscles (the big one in the centre of my thigh) and misaligning my knee as well as straining my hamstring, groin and other ligaments. Not fun at all. It was made worse because, while in the process of hurting myself, the opposition scored and we ended up losing 2-0. They scored later in a one on one when I couldn’t get to the ball fast enough because I could barely run (yes - with the help of adrenaline I kept on playing which in hindsight was a bad idea).
I didn’t help my cause either by getting in the car straight after the game and driving for 3 1/2 hours to Sydney to see the Socceroos play! Anyway, the physio says I was lucky not to rupture the whole quad muscle and will be out of action for 3-6 weeks. I’m hoping I will only miss three weeks of soccer. As such I won’t be training for a while and so will reclaim two nights during the week and in general will have to take things a bit slower. The joys of hobbling around and visits to the physio await.