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I just had something similar fixed in my shoulder, due to multiple dislocations.

It took about 9 months but I'm mended now, pretty much.

Good luck, hope it isn't as serious as feared.

Sorry to hear this :( Dancing is meant to be very therapeutic!

Labral tears are horrible but surgery repairs them, it'd probably be keyhole which is quite interesting in itself (I saw pictures of my fairly similar hip surgery) and recovery is really not too bad.

I'm no expert but I've certainly heard of people recovering from surgery after labral tears. As a related comparison, I've had keyhole hip surgery for femeroacetabular impingement (FAI) and whilst having as much time out from running as I did was extremely frustrating (on the bright side I got right back into cycling in a big way!) the surgery was 100% successful and I've hit big PBs across all distances since the surgery, with four years now relatively injury free. Best of luck getting treatment and I hope you can return to running long term.

Ah I had FAI too! Needed open surgery though as keyhole didn't work out, which was pretty grim (crutches for 3 months - though on the plus side I have epic scars and metalwork). How old were you when you got diagnosed?

Cheers!
I had glenoid labrum tear a few years back, which wenleftbalone and treated with some fairly uncomfortable physio - I felt that having a shoulder being held static for a few months wasn't going to work for me, and I trusted my physio to be able to fix it. I was fortunate enough that it did.

I'm going to try and physio it for a bit, but I'll also be talking to my GP about whether the local trust will do hip arthroscopy for tears. Apparently it's a coin toss.

How long was your convalescence?

Do you think the tears are because of your weight?

Lolz.

I was 38 when diagnosed. FAI on both hips but only affected me on the right so far. So the surgeon said I may need the other one done at some point, but not to worry about it if it doesn't affect me. It doesn't appear to be affecting me so I'm trying not to worry about it. :)

@TW - The biggest delay was getting diagnosed properly and then being booked in for consultation and surgery. (More than 6 months for all that.) Recovery was pretty swift. Surgery in the morning, home in the afternoon. On crutches for about a week. Returned to gym with a slight limp after a week to use the exercise bike. 2- 6 weeks getting back up to full non-running exercise intensity (cycling, indoor rowing, core/strength). Started running again 6 weeks after surgery and back up to full mileage after another 8 weeks. Another couple of months for full intensity training. I won a half marathon with a big PB, 7 months after surgery. Happy with that! :)

Just finished Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes. Not great but not bad.

PM address if anyone wants it (on the understanding that it be offered to someone else on a similar basis afterwards).

I'm out of the country for a couple of weeks, if anyone wants that Fenix 2 lemme know and I can arrange for it to be in W1. £100 takes the watch with one charger, £150 takes the watch with three chargers, spare straps, powerblocks x2 with global socket adapters, strap tools etc.

Fenix 3? If so, dibs...

(I'm guessing you mean the Fenix 2)

Correct, edited thanks.

Just finished Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes. Not great but not bad.

Hate that book - and that guy - so much. 'So, I did this race that was so long no-one in the world could do it, it was, like, climbing Everest 26 times. I was at a stage when normal humans would just die, but then my awesomeness took over and I surged like a golden god. It was the most incredible performance this planet has ever seen. I came 6th. Anyway, I don't think I've mentioned my sponsor Powerbar three times on this page yet, so I'll just do that again.' A tiresome egomaniac self-publicist polluting a great sport mainly full of pretty humble and undemonstratively inspirational people.

I know a bunch of guys who've raced with him and am assured that he's just as big a douche in real life.

^Real world LOL

Don't hold back @kl tell us what you really think.

Awesome review. It's still inspirational though despite that.

Anyway, book is available. Gone to @jdp

Most importantly I bought it second hand (Amazon is excellent for this, so many books for 1p + £2.80 P&P) and so can you (from me and for the price of P&P to send it on to the next person who wants it), that way the big douche doesn't get any more money.

Meanwhile I got the notification that my copy of the Rob Young (good bloke) book has shipped. He will be getting the appropriate royalties from my sale.

His race sounds pretty much like my last parkrun.

Course recce Buxton to Hope for dusk til dawn done today, mix of walking and shuffling. Couple of map reading errors, one section I defo need to visit again - if it had been race night I'd have fallen into an old quarry for sure.

There are some punishing climbs around Chinley, one had me stripped of top layers to cool off despite walking up it.

Nutrition was done the Ron Turnbull way, water, banana, custard creams, fig rolls, lunch of fish n chips & half pint, then only one more banana and an eccles cake saw me to the end. Recovery drink was Spar Banana Milk in Hope, then half a pint & some peanuts.

Weather forecast was wrong in my favour, was glorious out there this arvo.

Did Strava most but not first bit from Buxton or a shop detour out n back after lunch. Reckon on hitting close to 30 all in which was a surprise, thought much less.

Need to reduce faff. Moving time and total time are worlds apart, missed having stuff quickly to hand in waist-bag as only took OMM rucksack with plenty stuffi didn't use in day but might overnight.

/csb

Pic: Shining Tor path

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That's nutrition done properly.

^ Slightly disappointed I hadn't yet bought the Eccles Cakes as I passed by "Eccles Pike" just before lunch.

Afterthought on recce navigation, was happy to get a bit lost & find where should have ended up then retrace correct path to see where I'd gone wrong, good learning. #toptips

@rhb yeah! Been a while since I saw Shining Tor. On the roof of northern England you're free of life's shackles regardless of perceived performance

How can we be found if we never get lost?

Getting lost is definitely a good way of learning routes, as long as the getting lost isn't in horrific conditions. I managed to get out into Northumberland yesterday, testing out some new red inov8s. they are a step up on my old adidas trail shoes for the downhill but a lot more painful on the final stretch down the road.

It was a pretty hard 14 miles as i had shattered my parkrun pb by 1 second earlier in the day. My legs are in revolt today. I may even try a foam roller session this evening.

Generally yesterday reminded me how much more fun running in the hills, rescuing sheep, avoiding dead sheep, fording rivers where footbridges were destroyed by falling trees, is than running on road.