What's a girl to do?

It's been so long since my knee injury. You'd think I'd have got over it and be back on my bike as it were! . . But alas It's taking me a while to build my fitness up again.

I have no problem getting there I'm jus taking the time to do it properly: I just gets frustrating at times: Feels like it's taking an age!

I damaged a few ligaments in my right knee running for the bus a while back now: I fell over and was so embarrassed that I got straight back up and carried on running. It wasn't until I went to get off the bus at the other end of my jouirney that I found it nearly impossible to walk. . . but being naive and stubborn I ignored the pain and walked on it anyway and did so for about a week before it became too much and I gave up. I didn't tell anyone and I never went to the doctors. Stupid-I know. And it'll be the one thing I'll always regret.

But the damage is done and I now have to move on and do what I can to recify the situation. My knee is fine now though it is notably weaker than the left one I can still do everthing I could. I'm just find that point hard to build on. .

My body is in good shape now. Although after the injury I ut on 3 stone through lack of exercise and depression: I let myself go. I'm 5ft 5 and a half inches tall to be precise! :D and currently weigh 9st 3lbs. I am more than happy with this! as you can probably imagine though, for a short girl 3stone is a lot of weight to gain! It was highly frustrating and upsetting, more so because I could have prevented it! It has been incredibly hard to shift the weight and beleive me I went through a lot of dangerously obsessive fads and starvation rituals before realising that all I needed was my friends and a sensible, doable food and exercise plan!

	Author:	Shorts (Shorts's profile, Shorts's blog)
	Posted On:	Friday, 15th February '08, 12:28pm
	Tags:	Conditioning, Cycling, Diet, Exercise, Fitness, Flexibility, Nutrition, Physiology, Psychology, Stretching, Supplements, Swimming, Team Sport, Technique, Training, Training Programs, Triathlon, Volleyball, Warm Up, Weight Training, Winning and Women
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