not good..

have woken up this morning with a right knee that feels broken. smashed into the biggest (6'6") guy on the field at football last night and really felt it. i don't know what part of him i caught, but he full-force clattered my knee-cap. had to go off the field for a few minutes to even feel it again, and when i did it was really painful. the pain wore off and i went back on and played for another 40 minutes. walked home fine, without it nagging too much - the skinning the same knee took from another fall hurt more. (we play on astroturf that has a layer of sand on top - if you fall over, you inevitably skin yourself somewhere - elbows, knees most likely.) had a shower and iced the knee as soon as i could. thought i did quite a good job in fact. gave it a rest after a good icing session - bit of elevation as we watched Newsnight to see who our new government was going to be. took the icepack to bed with me and iced the knee a bit more as i fell asleep..

but now i'm up - six and a half hours later - it hurts considerably more than last night and i'm pretty sure it's internal bruising. i've got a tubigrip on it already, and i suspect some of the swelling - if that's what it is - is worse, or at least how it feels is worse, because i've just got up. could be that it feels better after i move around a bit.

whatever, i won't be doing the fartlek we'd planned for lunchtime today. and probably not the run out tomorrow. and maybe not even the hill-training at the weekend. who knows..

i hate the uncertainty of an injury - just after you get it. this one, i don't think, is going to be bad.. it's probably just some bruising that will dissipate over the next day or two.. let's hope. there's unlikely to be any tendon, ligament or cartilage damage, otherwise i would have felt it in the rest of the game or on the trip home. and i felt nothing.

the game itself was a total washout for me. i play left back, and yesterday must be close to the worst i've played in a long time. couldn't get any certainty to my play.. i actually fell over my own feet tracking back with that same big guy - who then went on unmarked and scored their first goal. five minutes later, i took a pass from our goalie and promptly fed it straight into the path of their best striker, who tidily slotted it past our keep for their second. they beat us 2-1. i was directly responsibly for both goals. and skinned my knee. and took a clattering that means that knee hurts this morning. maybe i should be going to the Tuesday night running club instead.