I didn’t sleep well again and feel bleary eyed and positively ‘Stig of the dump!’
I shy away from the usual morning inspections, I know the mirror will not lie for me anymore.
I am excited for the coming day as I am about to run shoulder to shoulder with the Lake District.
The sun is up and gently bathing away my early morning fatigue and I leave Penrith with few souls around. The way I like it. All manner of creatures are giving greetings and I feel lucky to be ‘Alive’. I Grab a picture and bade farewell to Penrith and its Castle.
I have a look at my route for the day and decide to cut right through the heart of the Lakes instead of the ‘A’ road and known death trap originally earmarked for this days jaunt.
My usual routine and build up to jogging ensues and then a few miles pass.
After a while I decide to wear for the first time ever a patella stabiliser as I’m getting this knee pain again. Wow it does the trick!! 1 mile, 2 mile, 3 mile and so on. I’ve guess I’m about half way, today being longer than it should and my knee and now other new pains are rapidly and angrily coming to bare.
Whats going on!???? I go from doing well to a grinding halt within half an hour. I discard the stabiliser. No improvement. I’m left crumpled against a wall panicking and feeling very scared. After pathetic attempts and distance I send out an S.O.S for help. I don’t know how I get to Kendal but I do.
I manage to get a slot at The Kendal Physiotherapy centre and am treated by a lovely lady called Alison, who is also the principle there. The outcomes of which there are many, is that it seems the stabiliser has badly damaged my vastus and sartorious by cutting off the blood supply.
It’s bad news. My quads and I.T sheaths are “Terrible!!” and she works like a trojan on all of this. She confirms my worries – symptoms of neuralgia in my foot that I am getting. Anyhow she works miracles and I leave markedly better and I can’t thank her and the centre enough.
I get to my place of stay, close myself in and realise I’m not even half way..
Pain, fear and loneliness seep into the room.
