08.03.2011

Woke up at 7.30 am today since I know I should be too tired to study after the 6 hours of training I was going to face later today. After heating up my breakfast, I chat with my mum for a while before video calling her for a while. I felt so bad for being so short tempered on my mum (I got all worked up after she kept saying that she couldn’t hear me since I wasn’t speaking very loud into the microphone due to the fact that it was a holiday and most of my housemates were still asleep) Sorry mum!
After finish eating breakfast, instead of studying my materials for the next class, I ended up surfing on facebook and watching clips till it was time to go out for my training. Thus I remained very unprepared for my class next day and once again, did not fulfill my goal.
1st up was basketball training. Today, there were relatively less people. I guess it was because it was still early and most of those senior players who are not joining the intervarsity games were lazy to go out .
Around 1 hour into the training game, one of the university’s star player got himself injured(sprained his ankle) after landing on top of my foot. His injury was pretty bad because as soon as we took of his shoe, we could see the foot had already swell up. I felt pretty bad for injuring their star player as the basketball team were lacking of player due to many of the players are playing a few other sports.
Towards the end of the training, I ended up spraining my ankle after landing on some junior’s foot. Though this time, mine was not as bad as mine did not swell up. I sort of had my feet under running cold water for around 2 minutes and then sat on the bench.
Next up was female volleyball team training and the guys will be doing some basic training at the side. As the captain of the male team already showed his disapprovement of me doing basketball as well because I am the only setter and he doesn’t want me to injure myself in the training or the games itself, I bared my teeth and forced myself to walk normally and act like I am usual. I managed to get a lot of rest due to the fact that it was the female team training and not the male team.
During the male training, I had to act normal while trying to prevent myself from further injuring myself. Hence I ended up not running too much and trying not to put my foot at stress at positions that hurts the most.
After the training ended. I finally let down my guard and started to limp. During my walk back home from the bus stop, the pain in my leg started to intensify and I had to ask my housemate to aid me in walking back home.
I hope that this sprain will heal before the next training and I would be in top shape during the games. I will also ask the teacher of my current cycle (physiotherapy) on methods to aid my sprained ankle to heal faster. Pray that my wishes come true!