I propose a thread honoring old age in which each person lists their current physical ailments and general excuses that prevent them from beating people like Paul Smith and Rich Saeger.
I will lead with a growing list of my own.
1. Shoulder pain
2. Heart palpatations
3. High cholesterol
4. Left hip stress fracture
5. Lower back pain (from shoveling snow!)
6. Wife and 3 kids.
Perhaps we can give an award to the winner and the biggest whiner at the end of this thread.
John Smith
I have one more meet...then I'm getting the doc to check out my knee and shoulder...not painful but not 100% right. Hopefully rest will be the treatment. I'd be stunned if anything is torn. I think I over did my RC exercises last week though and caused it to get grumpy.
Grumpy shoulders stink! I'm sorry.
I'm so glad your shoulders are better! :groovy: Keep up those RCs! Good luck this weekend! I don't want surgery either!! Avoid if at all possible. But I hate to stop training or working out either. If I need a period of "relative rest," I usually cross train more. Or I do more restorative or drill based swimming.
I'm whiney today because I'm now on a "waking up early" tear. Early mornings do not agree with Draculinas.
Thanks Fort! I'm starting to get excited/nervous! This will be my last chance to swim short course. I'm hoping to improve on my last meet's times - especially my 200 free. I'm swimming less events this meet so hopefully, that will help! I'm actually doing (if I don't chicken out) 50 back!:rofl: ...not my best event at all. I'm soooo slow. I practiced a start this morning and it felt so wierd!...like I hit the water and STOPPED! :lolup: But heah...its only a 50! Hopefully I can SDK well off the turn to make up some for my start! :banana: I can check it off on my Tour de pool shirt! I'm concentrating on 50, 100 and 200 free and my 100 IM. ....butterflies just thinking about it!
I'm starting to think we truly are twins! I'm waking early too. I finally decided to just go to morning practice since I was awake! It felt good. I just hope I can start going to sleep earlier!:snore:
Thanks Fort! I'm starting to get excited/nervous! This will be my last chance to swim short course. I'm hoping to improve on my last meet's times - especially my 200 free. I'm swimming less events this meet so hopefully, that will help! I'm actually doing (if I don't chicken out) 50 back!:rofl: ...not my best event at all. I'm soooo slow. I practiced a start this morning and it felt so wierd!...like I hit the water and STOPPED! :lolup: But heah...its only a 50! Hopefully I can SDK well off the turn to make up some for my start! :banana: I can check it off on my Tour de pool shirt! I'm concentrating on 50, 100 and 200 free and my 100 IM. ....butterflies just thinking about it!
Dearest sleep deprived twin Draculina:
That sounds like a good plan. You don't need to be doing all that breaststroke anyway!. :joker: I'm sure you'll do great, although you were pretty smoking fast last time IMHO!!! What about that one second on the 200 IM you needed?!
I usually love the 100 IM. But, just to stay on topic, I really hated it my last meet. Dove in and got a calf cramp right away. That made it unfun. But there's always next time. Go get 'em! (And remember you can still swim fast when sleep deprived!)
I swam Zones this past weekend. It was the first time I was able to do a strong breaststroke pull. and that went OK.Unfortunately I couldn't ever get my timing right in the 100 on the first day. I tried fly and it hurt. Ever try to swim a 50 fly without pulling. Even Butterfrog it doesn't work. I finished 8 out of 8 in my age group. Second day I did a long warmup and started to get my timing right. I was feeling good and my shoulder was fine for breaststroke and then I pulled my groin again(It had been twitchy for 3 week but was OK day one.)I swam the 200 breaststroke and the 50 and a relay concentrating on keeping my knees together to not strain my groin. It was effective,if distracting but at least I could swim.(I had to scratch the 200 fly though,SOB:rofl: .)
Grumpy shoulders stink! I'm sorry.
Only feel it when I do crawl and reach out with left and breathe...as soon as my weight hits it I feel it. but could be over use from Zones then too much on the RC work.
If it hurts again tonight I'll just kick set 1000yards AGAIN
Oooh I love to complain.
Got frozen collards on my left shoulder: frozen yellow corn on my right. Swim today was great but after that and then mowing the lawn I am attempting to lessen the inevitable shoulder ouch.
Oh, and the triathletes sharing the next lane keep glaring at me. Sorrrr-rrrreee! for being is your space, sheesh.forums.usms.org/.../thhbbb.gif
Oooh I love to complain.
Got frozen collards on my left shoulder: frozen yellow corn on my right. Swim today was great but after that and then mowing the lawn I am attempting to lessen the inevitable shoulder ouch.
Oh, and the triathletes sharing the lane keep glaring at me. Sorrrr-rrrreee! for being in your space, sheesh. :thhbbb:
Peter, hang in there and take care of yourself! Night sift work is tough on your body. I used to have to work it when I worked as a nurse (7PM-7AM). I had a hard time sleeping during the day because my children were young and because of the light. That's the main reason I "retired" temporarily. I will be going back to nursing very soon now that my kids are older. Buy some room darkening shades and invest in some silicone earplugs.
Good luck finding a new job. My husband works in the labile electronics/telecommunications business so he has been through 2 layoffs. Each time he ended up getting a better job with better pay. Something better is out there waiting for you! Hang in there!
Bill, try your best to avoid surgery! Shoulder surgery itself is not bad at all.....the physical therapy afterwards is hell though. Try to go the PT/antiinflammatories/ice/heat route first!
I will do anything and everything to avoid "going under the knife" except stopping my training.
That's how I am too. Did you get an arthrogram or a regular MRI?
