Lucky i like tequila because life has given me a few more lemons! My good ole ‘good’ knee has crapped itself. Guess it was feeling left out after 5 surgeries on my ‘bad’ knee (which is now good, funnily enough!) I managed exactly 3 years out of surgery; 2 if you count my dreadful wisdom tooth experience.
I know I’m going to hear it all again from doctors and even my friends and family, “it’s time to take it easy now”, “maybe you should stop training so hard”, “haven’t you done enough triathlons?”… etc. And they mean well, I mean they have my best interest at heart and they are right, if I stop all that activity then I won’t get injured anymore.
But what they don’t get is that all that ‘action’ has saved me from myself, from the black cloud of mental health. When you have something that distracts your cognitive processes from destructive pathways and physically makes you feel strong then you gotta take that bull by the horns and flip it on it’s arse. So please don’t lecture me, just let me be me.
I’m not done climbing mountains, I’m not done riding horses, I’m not done smashing weights at the gym, and I’m not done running.
8 surgeries in 10 years
One year on crutches
Watch this space – I’m not done yet
tommy the travelling turtle 