I'm so thankful..........
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Joe_H posted 17 weeks ago.
fantastic attitude. let it heal then get back to it! good luck!
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cjhoffmn posted 17 weeks ago.
Look forward to the come back story! Great post. Thanks irongirl.
To tri or not to tri - that's not a question at all!
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beads1985 posted 17 weeks ago.
Maria,
You may be 57 this year but you can have many more years of competition ahead of you
Sister Madonna Buder at 77 has 20 years on you and she is still going strong.
Get better, and get back in the game. I know you can do it. ;-)
Nothing to it, but to do it
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KevDaddy posted 17 weeks ago.
iron_girl,
I am very sorry to hear about your injury. It is something we all dread and know that it can happen to any of us at any time.
I wish you well in your assessment, treatment, and recovery. Remember that you are always a triathlete in your heart!
Kind Regards,
Kevin
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jtrimom posted 17 weeks ago.
your strong attitude is what really makes you an irongirl- if you do your rehab and healing as well as you did your training, you will be back to it in no time!
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kylie posted 17 weeks ago.
iamtb13 wrote:
Your name should be IronAttitudeGirl.
+1
Glad you found peace with it all.
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TriOnLife posted 17 weeks ago.
Three cheers for your attitude. I have no doubt it is really hard to be sidelined and put out of a big race, especially when it fell on your birthday.
I'm a little surprised they didn't give you the option of rolling your registration to next year, though. That's kind of crummy.
- A 21st Century Mom who is tri-ing to get better instead of just getting older
www.breakingthetape.com/21stcenturymom
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laprokop posted 17 weeks ago.
Great attitude! I need to take some pointers from you. I wish you the best on the healing process.
Dear friends: Thank you so very much for all your words of ecouragement and consolation. Yes, I am so pi$$ed and sad but I am not giving up this wonderful sport.
Today I will go see an Orthopedic/sports medicine doctor and he will see my x-rays and assess the situation. I am wearing a temporary cast on my foot all the way up to my knee and today I will get the full cast. My foot hurts a bit but its not unbearable pain, unless I move it or hit it so, I am more or less ok.
I am so grateful this didn't happened in 06, while training for my first Iron Man, now that would have been even more devastating, so at least I have the wonderful memories of that very cold and rainy day, my finishers medal and my 3rd. place award, pictures and the video my daughters made of me from the moment we got out of the hotel to the moment I crossed the finish line.
There is always next year and, even though I am really sad and angry at this freak accident, I am going to be ok. I will follow the doctors instrucctions, to the letter, I will do what ever therapy he advises me to do and I will let my body take over. Yesterday I withdrawal from the race, just in the nick of time, and they will send a check for $150.00 in about 5 weeks. I am going to wait till I talk to the doctors today and, depending on what they say, I will try to register on line for IM Wisconsin 09.
I figured, I have at least 6 months to heal this foot before I can really start training seriously for this race. I am sure the doctors will let me swim and maybe even ride my bike on the trainer when the cast is off my foot and the running, I guess I will take it one day at the time. I am no spring chicken, you know? but I know I can heal. I still have 2009 and 2010 to dream about before I turn 60 in 2011.
So, thanks again, everyone, for your kindness and support. I will let you know how things are going in the next few weeks. For all of you who are doing IM Wisconsin 08, know this, I will be praying for you, cheering you on from the bottom of my heart, I wish for you a great day, an awesome day, a successful day. May God Bless you all.
Maria.
"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious Triumph, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spiritis who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not Victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt.