physical therapy expert, Dr. B.J. Leeper, and professional triathlete, Elizabeth James.

They are joining us to talk about how to return to our triathlon training after an injury or a surgery specifically.

There's a lot of reasons why we can take a temporary pause on our training and returning from injury and surgery.

There's, yeah, you got to be careful.

I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice of the people and captain of the middle of the pack.

We treat the show like any good workout.

We'll start with a warm up question, settle into our main set conversation, and then wind things down by having Dr. Leeper and Elizabeth answer an audience question on the cool down.

Lots of good stuff.

Let's get to it.

This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every

conversation. Let's get started with today's warm up. Big or small, triathlon related or

triathlon adjacent.

What is the most recent injury you have had and how did you get that injury?

Very excited to hear what our folks have to say while we're talking about coming back from injury.

I thought let's hear about the last time the three of us were injured.

So, Elizabeth, tell us about your latest injury,

mishap, whatever it was. All right. Yeah, so my most recent injury was a sprain of the ligaments

around the big toe joint, which is also known as turf toe. I now understand what that is and

just how painful it is. So, yeah, it happened while I was pacing a friend in an ultra, just super rocky terrain. It was at night, stub my toe on a rock. And as I said, now I can fully emphasize with what turf toe is. And it seems like such an insignificant thing but it was so painful and it just

lingered forever um this is one i found incredibly hard to rehab because it's i mean the big toe so

important we use it every single day just walking around so yeah turf toe that would be my most recent

all right it's like when you hurt your back right right? You can't do any or your neck.

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