Getting back to work is not easy!

Hi everyone,

As you may know I suffered a serious knee injury a few months ago. Unfortunately it required surgery to fix it. I had the surgery done on the 12th of november 2007 after being unable to play the game I love so much for 1½ months at the time. Now I've been back in training for almost a week and I promise you, it's not anything like taking a walk in the park :) Every part of my body is aching, but luckily my knee is not affected by it! I guess more than 3 months with no badminton played at all is not good for me! I've been working hard on my strength training during the injury break, so I really feel my body is in as good shape as possible after such a long break. Hopefully that means the pain in my body it will get better during the next couple of weeks as I get more used to the badminton training again. Only time will tell :)
Today I had a 1 hour 20 minutes badminton session in the morning. Usually it would be a 2 hour session, but due to the fact I'm only just getting back on court, I've decided to start off a bit easy. With my body aching so much, it might be a wise decision... I did a lot of multi shuttle excercises with Kenneth Jonassen, which was really good. It amazing to be training with a guy at his level. All the good advice he can give me, is really helping me becomming a better player. After the training I spent a little extra time on strecthing as I figured my body probably needed it! Then I went out to have some lunch with 2 of my good friends from the national training center here in Denmark and only 2 hours after that I had to go to physical training! Oh my, just the thought of it was nearly killing me haha. Fortunately the coach was a bit late, so the training was postponed for almost 45 mins, giving me some extra time to relax... The best 45 mins of my day :-)
I got through the training and now I'm back home and have just eaten dinner. Not much time to relax though, I'm going to the cinema in a few minutes with some friends, watching American Gangster. Hopefully it will be a good movie and I'm sure I will sleep pretty tight went I get to it later tonight! Hmm I really have to go now if I don't want to be late. So I'll be back on here tomorrow.

Thank you all for your interest and take care,

HK