Me, K tape and Meet

November and December have been the most important for the university sportsmen and women because the Inter University Championships are taking place. And we had our Inter University Track and Field Championships on 26th and 27th of November at Sugathadasa Stadium which is pretty closer to our university.

I have this thing that I get sick or injured whenever an important meet is getting near. And it happened this time also.. I get injured during training or I would rather say my old injury relapsed due to overstraining my bad knee. But I didn't take it serious because we are too used to it, yet I got treatments.

First day was the most important day because I had two events that's day and practically it becomes four with heats and finals. And I realized that it hurt when I take a block Start, so my coach recommended me to tape my legs before the finals.

Day 01 (Please note that the picture credits of all the pictures I'm using in this post should go to the respective media units of universities. )

And when it comes to the second day, my injury is starting to get worse since I had to run four time the previous day. So I taped me knee again!! I had only 400m×4 relay that day, but my the injury got really bad after its heats to the point that I didn't want to run for the finals. But my coach wanted me in the finals, so I did some quick physiotherapy treatments just half and hour before the event. And he tapes me knee again, tighter than before to make sure that my muscle is intact 🥴 And he asked me to remove all the tapes as soon as I'm done with the race because they were so tight.

These pictures literally show how my mood switched from morning to evening. Third picture shows my overall conclusion after any meet where I have a serious convo with myself on why I should I suffer like this before the start of a race 😅

The funniest thing about the meet is that I had to wear k tapes in three times in three different colours for a Two day meet 😅 But all the effort I put in running while biting my teeth paid me off. Out of the three events I did, I won two third places and one fifth places. I was easily satisfied with it since I'm not a full time athlete now.

Me who aged a lot to get these two certificates 😂

I felt a huge burden being lifted off because we didn't have any major meets for this year after this one. One more chapter in university athletics life is done. Many more to go 💖

Thanks for reading!

Have a nice day!