I was at aikido class on Saturday morning, and planned to run 18 miles when I got home. I would have liked to have run 9 miles before aikido, and another 9 miles when I got home to break up the distance, but I had stuff I needed to do int he morning. ANyway, I was at aikido class, and I volunteered to be an uke for a guy who was testing for brown belt. So I and a couple black belts are attacking this guy, and he is throwing us around. I was nearly thrown into some radiators, and also some fellow students. The last time I was throw towards our instructors and a concrete wall. I tried to do a short roll like I had previously done. Apparently I tried to cut the roll too short, and landed with my full weight onto my shoulder. Ouch! I got off the mat, began icing the shoulder, and taking some ibuprofen. It hurt alot. I wasn’t sure if it was broken or not. I seemed to have full range of motion, though it hurt in some directions.
I wasn’t able to do my 18 mile run. The swinging motion and the bouncing hurt too much. It still hurt yesterday, so I did an hour of spinning in the morning, and then another 30 minutes of spinning in the evening. My shoulder got to feeling better in the evening.
Today my shoulder is still sore, but not nearly as sore as on Saturday. I am scheduled to do some intervals tonight. I will give them a try to see how my shoulder feels. I am pretty sure it isn’t broken. Maybe it is just severly bruised or something.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on April 7th, 2008 |