[email protected] wrote:
> Just as my left knee is 100% recovered from 4 months of injury, A week
> ago (on the Squash court) I tore my left soleus muscle and am unable to
> run. I'm out another month easily 
This must be the saddest (sorriest?) and the most infuriating post I've
read here! I know this is all perfect hindsight, but where was your
common sense? Where was your sense of priorities? Everyone over 40
knows that indoor ball games are for young men only and that this is
especially true of squash! And if you haven't kept at it throughout the
years, you may have been a past master, but you're still only a
(re)beginner - and if you've never played a game before your 35th
birthday, you're a clueless idiot making up your own sickbed!
What were you trying to do? Please a girlfriend, impress a business
partner, out-.macho a fiend or a colleague? I'm not saying that these
wouldn't be noble causes, but if you really want to be a runner or even
think of yourself as a runner, you should start behaving like one
instead of just trying to hang around them! If you want results, you
have to make *some* sacrifices, it is as simple as that!
Or were you by any chance only engaged in a game of elevating your
running results by purporting to be a
man-of-oh-so-many-multi-faceted-activities-who-just-dabbles-in-running-and-qualifies-for-Bóston-without-any-long-runs-and-genetically-challenged-besides?
And what about your newly-acquired coach? Had he okayed your squash as
suitable crosstraining? Had you ever mentioned it to him as a part of
your current training regimen? Either I'd choose another coach,
preferably someone more knowledgeable of and suitable for master
runners - or I'd hate to be your coach!
Anders (who is probably a bit low on testosterone at the moment and
therefore cranky)
