Ow! Yes, folks, I'm injured. You might think this was inevitable considering my approach to looking after my body is even more slapdash than a Serbian tennis player's approach to admin. But this time, the injury is entirely non-tri-related.
The injury in question is a trapped sciatic nerve, which, for the uninitiated, lurks in your lower back and buttock area, and is one of those things you don't realize you use all the time until it starts hurting. And boy does it hurt.
I never knew, for example, that I needed it to roll over in bed, a maneuver I can't now make without my screams waking the dogs. I also appear to need it for walking, sitting, standing, bending, moving, and breathing.
So far I've spent about 86% of 2022 lying on my back, and when I stand I have the posture of a quaver. My physio Jess has been doing her best to help me by delivering the elbow of justice to my back, but I'm currently unable to swim, cycle, run, or appear in public without a massive scowl.
And how did I end up like this? Well folks, after 15 Ironmans, 77 marathons, millions of meters of swimming, and thousands of miles of cycling, I managed to reduce myself to a clenched, immobile wreck by... carrying a bag of birdseed.
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