The sun was shining and I felt driven to go to the track to skate some rounds this morning. Actually it’s been the first time in months. So today is a special day for me!

As some of you know I had some trouble with my leg since last May. It started one or two weeks after a crash where I had a tearing pain in the back of my knee. I went several times to different orthopaedists who told me that there was nothing. I took a break of two weeks and got again a tearing pain after skating a couple of kilometers. Back to the orthopaedist who told me again that there was nothing. Then I decided to go to no doctors anymore for a while as long as they just said that everything is fine with my leg. I took a longer break then and started skating end of July again. I also participated to some races. I didn’t have any pain during the races.

I also noted an inflammation of my Achilles tendon mid-September. The tearing pain also came back over and over. In a few words: the problems became bigger. From then on I didn’t do any sports for three months. In January this year I started with cycling. No problems at all but while walking I still had this f***ing tearing pain for further two months. Since three weeks it seems the problems are going away thankfully to my physiotherapist.

Hopefully I can start my training now and hopefully the pain doesn’t come back.