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[Themanbun]

I can't catch a ******* break, I've f’ed my ankle again. It was sore during training yesterday and then on the way home it was swelling. This is my third ankle sprain in 12 months.

I had a practice on Sunday, but now I can't play and wont because i wanna be able to play during the season. I will go see the physio at Marvel Stadium at 1.10pm hehehehe :stern look

Injuries can just gagf really. Someone should ban them.

Work hard mate and you'll be back at your best

 

[Ligma]

Injuries can just gagf really. Someone should ban them.

Work hard mate and you'll be back at your best

I brought a $350 gps tracker hehehe oops

 

[Jonnoo]

I brought a $350 gps tracker hehehe oops

Which one did you get? I roll with the Garmin Fenix 5 but curious what others use.

 

[Ligma]

Which one did you get? I roll with the Garmin Fenix 5 but curious what others use.

SPT, the gps units footy players use

I use a Garmin forerunner 245

 

[Ether]

Which one did you get? I roll with the Garmin Fenix 5 but curious what others use.

Forerunner 920XT. A bit tempted to get a fancy newer one when they are half price, which seems to be every few weeks, but it does everything i need and the battery lasts for ages.

My running buddy has some flavour of Fenix 6. Apart from a bunch of functions I don't care about, it has a half way usable on screen map, optical HR (which is probably mostly useful for resting HR) and its GPS may be a bit better than mine in some circumstances. On the couple of occasions the GPS on mine has lost where we are it has kept signal, mine is sometimes a little bit out when doing laps of an oval and the Fenix 6 may do elevation more accurately. It always shows more elev gain when we've run the same course. That may just be a different smoothing algorithm though.

 

[Ligma]

I got to use my gps for the first time! Coaches had to force me to sit out in some of the drills so I did some light running. I didn’t go all out as highlighted in efforts hahahahaha but it’s cool to have a look at although my ankle is cooked

 

[Ligma]

Let’s have some positivity after yesterday.

Today was the first match of my season!!

First Qtr: quiet, got a score involvement and was quiet, got a behind. Playing HF.

Second Qtr: quiet again on HF.

Third Qtr: coach put me as Ruck Rover (mind you I’ve never played there before) first centre bounce running through the pack get the handball and got a massive clearance in 50. Then 7 min mark I got my first rotation to the bench lol then gone back to HF.

Fourth Qtr: I just ******* dominated, tackles, spoils, intercept marks, i50s, my mids and I were on fire. At the start of the Qtr we were 7 points down and we just piled on the goals. I remember they had it in the centre circle and I just dived to smother it and we just played the chaos ball and it resulted in a goal. Last minute my half back was making a run and the girl is like 7 meters behind her so I just sprint to give the big Shepard but just like zurhaar I came off second best LOL was on all fours dying

Stats for the game. Im under conditioned but played a ******* awesome game being Ruck rover.

 

[shinboner magic]

I went for a strenuous stroll today ……….










To the beer fridge

 

[Themanbun]

Let’s have some positivity after yesterday.

Today was the first match of my season!!

First Qtr: quiet, got a score involvement and was quiet, got a behind. Playing HF.

Second Qtr: quiet again on HF.

Third Qtr: coach put me as Ruck Rover (mind you I’ve never played there before) first centre bounce running through the pack get the handball and got a massive clearance in 50. Then 7 min mark I got my first rotation to the bench lol then gone back to HF.

Fourth Qtr: I just ******* dominated, tackles, spoils, intercept marks, i50s, my mids and I were on fire. At the start of the Qtr we were 7 points down and we just piled on the goals. I remember they had it in the centre circle and I just dived to smother it and we just played the chaos ball and it resulted in a goal. Last minute my half back was making a run and the girl is like 7 meters behind her so I just sprint to give the big Shepard but just like zurhaar I came off second best LOL was on all fours dyingView attachment 1362601

Stats for the game. Im under conditioned but played a ******* awesome game being Ruck rover.

Great stuff. Making me jealous, I'd love to be back out there for round 1.

 

[Ligma]

I didn’t even play well and I got tagged

 

[kool kangas]

I went for a strenuous stroll today ……….










To the beer fridge

l decided to do part time work after 2 years off and ended up with Plantar fasciitis...

 

[Heaps of fun]

First game of the season done. Played 17 to 20 with the opposition having an extra man on the field the entire day, hoping to never run that much again.

 

[Ligma]

This is my best game in the 2022 season, played 95% as a half forward, 5% on ball. Got really involved in the full ground switches, runs were great. The one thing that pissed me off was that when the ball was on the top of the 50 I had a nice position and all alone and I was screaming at them and not one look at me (( pretty proud of my running efforts, I am still building though

 

[Ligma]

Not our day today came out firing, I was hungover but I played pretty ******* good. Was applying a lot of forward pressure, taking marks on the wing, tackling. I have to say one of my runs was astounding, CHF pushes up to the middle of the field to get the mark, for some reason I have 2 girls on me but I burn them both off and made more of an L lead rather than a hook to the top of the 50 and took the mark, pushed back quickly and passed it off to the pocket and we kicked one. I polled highly in the votes, pretty happy about that one.

 

[Ligma]

How do you guys play with sprained fingers? I sprained it in the warm up and it had blown up so bad overnight. I brought a splint for it but not sure how to about things. Pic for reference

 

[Themanbun]

How do you guys play with sprained fingers? I sprained it in the warm up and it had blown up so bad overnight. I brought a splint for it but not sure how to about things. Pic for reference
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Friend of mine saw a finger specialist for something similar and they told him to rest rather than play through otherwise it just keeps blowing up and never healing properly.

I've got a pinky that won't straighten after doing similar in my younger years.

 

[Ligma]

Friend of mine saw a finger specialist for something similar and they told him to rest rather than play through otherwise it just keeps blowing up and never healing properly.

I've got a pinky that won't straighten after doing similar in my younger years.

Ahhh okay I might see if I can get a proper splint so I can wear it in a game

 

[Themanbun]

Been smashing 3+ hours of knee rehab a day now. Going strong, am still very motivated (although a long road ahead). Much more aggressive in my rehab this time around and moving around a lot better as a result.

Will get back to pumping upper body weights when I feel like my movement is good enough to get around the gym and not swell it up for no benefit.

 

[Lomas]

How do you guys play with sprained fingers? I sprained it in the warm up and it had blown up so bad overnight. I brought a splint for it but not sure how to about things. Pic for reference
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If it is just sprained, not broken, the splint won't do anything that taping won't. That being said, I would be careful about the joints, I have some wonky fingers from breaks and dislocations I didn't look after.

 

[Ligma]

If it is just sprained, not broken, the splint won't do anything that taping won't. That being said, I would be careful about the joints, I have some wonky fingers from breaks and dislocations I didn't look after.

I thought my pinky was just sprained and I taped it and the doctor said I narrowly missed surgery because it was broken

The thing with taping tho is I don’t wanna keep potentially pinging it, I need it to heal as best as it can as it is like you said around the joint. It kills folding clothes

 

[Orange Peanut]

Quick update guys: smoking hasn't really helped. I don't want to do more than 2 darts a day, so it's only providing limited benefit to lowering my food intake. Plus I drink more beer because I smoke next to the bar fridge on the deck. I also cough a lot, run out of breath easy, and can't be bothered going for my evening walk.
1 star. Do not recommend.

 

[ferball]

Get a vape till you can kick nicotine.

 

[shinboner magic]

Quick update guys: smoking hasn't really helped. I don't want to do more than 2 darts a day, so it's only providing limited benefit to lowering my food intake. Plus I drink more beer because I smoke next to the bar fridge on the deck. I also cough a lot, run out of breath easy, and can't be bothered going for my evening walk.
1 star. Do not recommend.

If you’re serious beer fridge should be in garden shed behind the mower

 

[shintemaster]

I've been riding to work (around 25-26km round trip) 3-4 days a week on average since traffic kicked back into gear a couple of months back. Happy to say that along with a bit of a break from booze has seen me knock around 4-5kgs off. Hoping to get another similar return over the next 2-3 months which should make running a bit easier on the body. My biggest worry is that I'm churning through podcasts at an alarming rate...

 

[Ligma]

I've been riding to work (around 25-26km round trip) 3-4 days a week on average since traffic kicked back into gear a couple of months back. Happy to say that along with a bit of a break from booze has seen me knock around 4-5kgs off. Hoping to get another similar return over the next 2-3 months which should make running a bit easier on the body. My biggest worry is that I'm churning through podcasts at an alarming rate...

Lycra?