The Photo.

I think it only fair to warn you that I have posted a photo of my injury at the foot of this page. If you get a bit squeamish at the thought of seeing my naked collar bone, look away now..

This week we planned a Wednesday night and Thursday night session in the gym but Nigel’s rota changed. He is now working AFD’s pretty much ever day this week. Did that stop him from joining me in the gym at 5pm last night? Nope. Though he was already bushed from the 6am start, he was a bit lack lustre on the rowing machine and after having a half hearted go at most of the weights he called it a day and went for the Jacuzzi. Just for good measure, he had to head back into work to finish at some point in the small hours.

I didn’t see fitness Stu yesterday to create a new, shoulder friendly fitness plan, so I kind of had to make up my own.

Treadmill. 20 minutes at a faster 7.1mph on the “fat burn” setting. The fat burn setting elevates the angle of the treadmill and it is surprising how much more effort it takes to keep the same pace. It saves the highest incline for the last 4 minutes and is a bit of a killer. I did maintain the 7.1mph throughout though there were a few times that I contemplated slowing down. I finished completely done in with shaky legs and I nearly ran myself sick. Not sure if I pushed myself too far.

I then went off and had a chat with Nigel for a bit to get my heart rate down a bit. I did the spine exercises and then headed off to the Cross Trainer. I set it to power level 10 (whatever that is worth) and started on another “Fat Burn”. The cross trainer works the same muscles as the treadmill (and a few more in the arms) but is low impact so I was getting on with that machine really well and got about five minutes into the cycle before Nigel called it a day and headed for the pool.

It was always going to happen. The day I am not allowed to go for a swim, is the day that the pool is empty. I couldn’t help myself, and I had a bit of a swim, nothing excessive. Just a few lengths.

Last night I had an awful nights sleep with this arm, and today my shoulder really does hurt. Is it because I swam? Is it because I used the arms bit of the cross trainer? Is it because I slept badly on it? I have to be honest, I don’t really know but I am getting a bit racked off by this limb at the moment.

So. Do you wanna see the wonky collar bone?



I thought it only fair to annotate the photograph, as it isn't really obvious at first glance that there is anything wrong. If over the course of these last few weeks I had built up an image of the injury for you that was more impressive than that which you see, I apologise but I assure you that it does hurt in a nagging dull ache sort of way.