Next indoor rowing competition: Sunday 27th January 2013

The

next British IRC has yet to confirm details so the  next event will be the English IRC will be held  on

Sunday 27th January 2013 at the Manchester Veledrome

Michaela has "suggested" that we enter......

January seems terribly soon gulp!

For me to enter will mean gettingover some tricky hurdles. For a start, the NHS discharged ,e as an outpatient at the end of March 2012, stating that there was nothing more it could do for me. I have to admit that 6 weeks later I returned and smugly showed them my latest trick - my twitching ankle. Now it may not seem much to you, but everyone told me I would never regain movement in my ankle and I would have to waear an orthotic splint for the rest of my life. They obviously had never come across a girl determined to wear her heels and flip flops again! 
My physiotherapists did refer me to the community gym on a wellness programme, so I wasn'y unduly upset at saying farewell to outpatiernts. Unfortunately I couldnt get on and off the gym equipment without  help so bang went my plans to go to the gym three mornings a week. The gym manager was wonderful and arranged times I could go when she was on duty so she could help me but this meant I had to fit with their schedule and meant gym at 4pm on some days, which didnt fill me with enthusiasm.
I did go and it was good to be exercising. The equipment was of course general gym equipment and I had no helpful physio ensuring I was moving correctly. Upshot was that I dislocated my shoulder again. Very painful indeed. My hip also started to hurt as again the equipment and exercises weren't designed to help me recover movement and function. After a couple of months, the gym sessions were causing more harm than good so I had to stop.
I do have a treadmill at home but I have fallen off and hit my headtoo many times. It is up for sale and I will use the money to buy an exercise bike which I will be able to use on a daily basis.

As for rowing training, I will look at hiring a rowing machine for a couple of months before the competition.

The rest will be up to me and my self motivation and Michaela's encouragement. She too can share my pain and we can both enter the next competition in January, in Manchester.  We will post our training  updates once we actually start doing some :)