Rollercoaster

The roller coaster continues.

After trying a new liner that needed a different way of casting the socket we decided against it after it being very painful right from the first day I used it at home. It had gel in the liner that was supposed to move away from the pressure areas when moving around but because it did it just felt very unstable. I was finding I just eventually sunk to far into the socket causing pain, both on the stump and nerves. Worth a try though as you never know unless you try these things. We just decided to start from scratch and am going back to have the first socket fitting next week they have taken another mould the old way.

Although I have had problems with cuts where the socket isn't fitting at the moment after a few days rest it looked okay so decided to do a 10K run race and just take it easy, using it as a training session. So was very surprised to come in a time of 45:44 a massive post amputation PB and felt very good all the way round the quit hilly course. Even I was happy with this time as since the amputation I have only run 10K about 5 times and that includes in training. I have had some testing and coaching done lately, I had some swim analyses done and filmed and also have my V02 max test. The swim analyse was very interesting as I have had it done before. The V02 max test I have never had done and it came out at 66 which is classed as excellent and the Glen who did the testing sent me a long report included training zones based on V02 max so I can improve my training/speed.

University has been so busy, so much reading to do and I am ridiculously slow but it is very interesting, thank god. Loads of assignments to do as no exam but this means there is twice as much to keep up with all the time!