Risk Awareness Reflection
This post is part of a larger health change project. I am not moaning on-line about a relatively minor pain but am participating in a project to start building in more flexibility training into my fitness regime. The problem is that I basically hate stretching but am starting to see a real need for it now. Here is step 1 of me building intention.
Assignment Details: Write a stream of consciousness recount of the recent debilitating calf pain on the bike and 3 of the risk possibilities that came to mind while dealing with that injury. The incident that this reflection is based on occurred on a night ride recently. It started as a nice spin out in the cold winter air.
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3 Risks
The most immediate risk that came to mind was slowing down and being late to meet a friend at the sento following the bike ride. His mobile phone wasn’t working and with his kids in bed calling the house wouldn’t have been a good option. I wanted to get back on time so he wouldn’t be left outside waiting.
Interesting that the risks came to mind in terms of temporal immediacy. My second fear was just annoyance that this cycling season is off to such a slow start. My weekly totals are still much lower than I’d like. I am pretty sure I am not maintaining my foundation and now I am in the deficit game. I feel like I am at risk of having a crap season.
The last risk is one that I imagine haunts a lot of athletes my age, “Don’t get hurt or you’ll miss so much time that you’ll get fat, slow, and never be able to get it back.” Maybe it’s less widespread than I think but I’ve always been in just different forms of fit. With training time so precious these days, there is real fear that a serious injury could be the end of that state of being that makes life so vivid.
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