This is retribution. I must have faked too many MCs and used too many opportunistic excuses to skip work. Now I'm so injured that I cannot even walk around the house. Every. single. step. hurts. A sharp pull in my left butt muscles anything I do. When I move my right leg, somehow the injured area on the left hurts too. When I lie down to sleep at night, it hurts. Any small movement makes me wince. And somehow it got worst after one day.

On the whole, I have been injured since the start of division 1, which is something like 3 months? Started with bad strain on the right hamstring/quadriceps/gluteus that slowed me down significantly in the league and made it look like I couldn't run. Just as the strain recovered a little, I sprained my left ankle in the league. And just as the left ankle was more or less ok, my right ankle started to hurt. Now that both ankles are taped up and work fine, I incur my worst injury yet.

I guess this means that I should take warming up more seriously? I admit I have never been the most disciplined of players, and frequently played fng without even warming up. But that sort of behaviour was for healthier times. I don't know what is wrong with me this season, but I'm not the same as before. Did I train too much perhaps?

Yesterday, I didn't go and jog to warm up, I did relay passes right away cos I felt that the slow jog from point to point was akin to warming up. It still sounds logical to me now. So I thought about it more and remembered something. I felt hard on my left butt in training on friday night =s And it's a chain reaction from the injured ankles. I accidentally stepped on someone's foot behind me and my ankle couldn't take it and I fell straight down onto my left butt. I didn't think much of it then. But from reading about muscle strains online, the direct blow to it probably injured it already =( And the injury wouldn't have been so bad had I not been so SILLY to forget about it on the way home yesterday and leapt from the bus to the kerb on the injured leg. I think that really did it, wrecked it.

Now, I can't go to the blading trip that we planned for weeks ago. Blading is definitely out, and I'm really not sure about cycling nor swimming. If I'm so immobile, I'm gonna get obese.

It's a real pain in the ass, literally, to even walk around the house now. And the best part is my mum keeps rubbing it in that I train too much, and 'VERY GOOD YOU CAN'T GO TO VIETNAM NOW'. I admit it has crossed my mind, whether I would recover in time. I can't go limping around like this can I =s

And IVP 09/10 always seems so far away, but it seems so much closer now, that training could begin in a few months and if the strain is that bad I may not be fully fit by then. With that in mind, I sadly will have to say goodbye to exercising for now.

sadness.