When Injury Strikes
220 Triathlon|October 2017

The usually fighting fit Brunty has a swim injury. Good job he’s not competing at the World Masters Swimming Champs soon…

Martyn Brunt
When Injury Strikes

Injured! I’m sorry to bring you down with the ‘I’ word right at the end of the magazine when you’re at your most enthusiastic, but I’m injured. And in the proper tradition of age-group triathlon, it’s my duty to obsessively go on about it.

In the 15 years I’ve been doing tri, I’ve been lucky to have had very few injuries, save for a bit of hamstring gyp and the obligatory bout of plantar fasciitis that all triathletes must endure. I’ve had one or two ‘impact’ injuries, such as a fractured elbow, broken arm, three broken toes, two broken fingers, 15 stitches in my hand and a patch of skin near my chuff that was rubbed off when I went commando under a wetsuit, but we’ll call them ‘mishaps’.

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