Scotty's Injury Update

Been a long time...I will be posting with much more frequency in the next while.

A few number of months ago, geez almost a year ago, I developed an issue with my right shoulder. Likely from overdoing the weightlifting while overseas. At any rate it has ranged from slightly annoying to down right paralysing. I have been to the MIR, and was as underwhelmed as Jaimer mentioned in her thread a while back. So I have been following my own prescription of abstaining from weightlifting or other activities like, say- throwing things.

This hasn’t really affected my running, and in fact I was so inspired by following the ATB progress on line I did 16.5 km run yesterday.

I know one of the issues with my shoulder comes from repeated snow shovelling this winter. The most we have endured in some time. Oddly enough despite the near record snowfall (and the most in numerous years) some moron was on the radio bragging about the fact that Moncton was well under budget for snow removal!

Which is obvious given the apparent lack of sidewalks in 3/4 of the city and the width of the streets reduced to half in some areas.

The last while has not helped either with repeated warm days and thaw followed by freezing days and snow. Hence my back yard is a wavy snow covered glacier.

I told you those things to tell you this:

In this area there is a bit of Spring Fever waiting to spring forth. This has been evident in Raven as she has been a little more rambunctious and shedding about 16lbs of hair a day. I think Christmas gifts this year will be hand woven dog hair bath mats.

So today Raven was particularly aggressive with a small stuffed bunny, so me being a thoughtful and dutiful owner took it outside and threw it. This was met with adulation, which I love. And the play went on for some time with Raven first throwing the bunny for herself, and then me chasing her around the yard. At one point I even commented to the Snickering Kara on the porch “Hm, it’s a tad icy!”

A little while later it was time to go in, but Raven was being stubborn about getting her “BUNNY” and decided to lolligag around the yard.

So being the cunning guy I am I made a snowball and tossed it across the yard. Raven promptly dropped the bunny and was gone in a flash!

AHA – I tear across the yard grab the bunny and try to throw it to Kara while I’m o the run. My shoulder decides. “Naw, let’s not.” And the bunny flies pathetically off towards the corner of the house. Simultaneously I hear Kara go “Ewww” because it landed in the mud, and the happy pounding of Raven feet chasing it.

So on the run I make an aggressive move to capture the bunny.

The next moment is seared in pain.
Oddly enough I find myself in the splits. One foot on top of a small bank, the other foot down beside the house. My crotch came to rest about three inches from the concrete corner of the house. I caught myself in the splits, so as to make sure my butt didn’t land in the snow.

That’s when I realize my hamstring and groin are pulled to the point of their tensile strength.

I then hobbled past the no-longer-snickering-but-all-out-hysterically-laughing Kara, and laid on the floor in the house.

Raven came along, sniffing as if to say “Where’d you go?”

I foresee no long term damage…

Not to my pride anyway…that was shattered long ago.