...is not at all how I imagined it to be. When I saw other peoples posts, it sounded like a wonderful thing; a luxurious purple velvet chaise-lounge, attended by two Tom Hiddleston lookalikes to attend to my every whim, waft my body with palm fronds and feed me Turkish delight...
The reality is though it's just crap. I bust my knee jiving at Zumba on Wednesday and so far the I/C has mainly involved me doing everything I would normally (work, housework, slave to my teenager) with copious amounts of ibuprofen and ice packs and not being able to run. I'm trying to rest it to be ready for tomorrows parkrun, but it's not looking good.
This has made me giggle, though I don't think Tom Hiddleston would have the same affect on me.
Why would you want to run when you have a nice warm fire and a bottle of red to entertain you for the evening oh and I would have thought a load of the white stuff outside.
Ok, confession time, not my lounge, not my chairs! I took this at the b&b I stayed at when ai did Snowdon, I was the only person in the whole place, it was fab 😊 x
Your injury couch is still so so much nicer than the one I imagine. In my head it's a bench, not a couch, a low wooden bench in a hall lit by fluorescent strip lighting. And you get very dilute squash to drink. So it could be worse. Mend soon!
Be patient. Don't rush to get out running again until you are completely ready. Otherwise you risk heading back to the bench.
This advice is coming from a very unfit runner who has been struggling with non running related injuries for several months and is fed up with the splintery hard wooden bench and the cold tiled floor. Oh for a chaise longue!!
Oh IannodaTruffe , I am so sorry to hear this I was wondering the other day how you were as you seemed to have gone a bit quiet , hope you feel better soon xxx
Thanks for the thoughts Pops. I have been dropping in the odd thoughts from time to time, but it is so easy to feel like a fraud when you are not running yourself.
First run for over a couple of weeks, some time tomorrow. Just a gentle jog round my home C25k course, for old times sake. Caution will be my ever present partner for several weeks, I suspect.
Thanks, Pops. I pulled my back moving a heavy sawbench in January, just after I got over a bad virus over Christmas and had just got back to regular running, when it recurred a couple of weeks ago. I don't think running aggravated it, so will start again tomorrow, with a long haul to get back to where I was at the end of last year. Hence my advice to be patient.
No, no, the IC is in no way a comfy place. It is an austere, ergonomocally unsound thing in an unappealing shade of grey that we got from a former Soviet freight airport. It's not supposed to encourage you to stay.
That's enough wine btw. In the glass. You may have another small glass next week if you rehabilitate well. And I am not even going to ask what those beige things in that bowl are. Just because we have injured our knee does not mean our entire alimentary system works in a different way suddenly. Begone salted snacks!
You're getting well and truly told off - aren't you? No, IC is horrible / but you've got to make the best of it, because you've got no choice. Sitting on a horrible hard, splintery bench in a grey room is not going to make your knee better, is it? So go you, enjoy your little luxury and ignore Rignold!
You might regret it when you get back running though!
What a laugh this thread is! 😊 Poor old Pam. Here's us having a titter over your knee debacle. Still you have to laugh don't you. Digger, that sounds like a nightmare indeed!
I hope you're feeling better for your enforced rest. Rig is right about salty snacks. Baaaad news for inflamed tissue (spoken in doom laden tones)
My WW leader entreats us to "beware the beige buffet" 😊
Rignold Doolittle: "Yes, Lord love you. Why should she die of zumba knee, when she come through shin splints right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it she was. They all thought she was dead. But JaySeeSkinny, she kept ladling red wine and crisps down her throat. Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl right off the spoon.
Poppypug: "Dear me!"
Rignold Doolittle: "Now, what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of zumba knee? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me?""
Two Tom Hiddleston lookalikes is just being greedy. Hope that knee sorts itself out soon Pam. In the meantime the trick is to get the household running around after you. This is what the IC is for, you're getting it all wrong.
You take it steady..one of us pushing ourselves, ( me by getting lost...and having to run further than intended in one day...or you if you miss a rest day...)... is quite enough!
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I was wondering the other day how you were as you seemed to have gone a bit quiet , hope you feel better soon xxx
Bouncing back from the injury couch!
A little respect for the injury couch...?🙄
Off the Injury Couch :)
Curly's turn on the injury couch
Off the injury couch and running with hares!
