The Unknown and Unknowable

Do you ever know what happens next?

This is a question that some people might think they have sorted out. Personally I'm not one of thous people. I write about this today because of the state that I was awoken in this morning as I crawled out of bed at 4:45 am for work. Its 4:45am and I was up late last night because of my soccer game. I played soccer at 9 last night, which didn't allow me to get to "bed" until about 12am. "Bed" is a loose word that I'm going to use because I was in bed with ice strapped to my knee while elevated and pain rushing down my leg; therefore I'm in bed but not sleeping. The "unknown" is what happened to my knee? Sure I played soccer twice this week, and did a few CrossFit WOD's but, I don't recall ever experiencing any pain threw out my activities. Although I don't know exactly what happened to my knee besides it is causing me a lot of pain while on my way into work.

Let me take you back 2 years ago, in October 2009 I was asked by my Dad to play in a friendly soccer match as a member of the Durham college Men's Soccer team vs. Loyalist College. It was "Unknowable" of what was to come out of this game that would alter the rest of my life. There was about 10 minutes remaining in the game as I was running up the right wing with the soccer ball at my feet and a defender fast approaching, I stepped over the ball with my right foot and turned to the left to go around my opponent, when I planted my foot I went crashing to the ground with a snap and a pop. It was my ACL that was fully torn in half, and unable to salvage. It is things like this that we can never expect. Whether it is something bad, like what happened to me or it could be something great like winning last night’s jackpot lotto of 41million dollars.

After this injury it was me playing the unknowable, I didn’t know what path I would take. I had all my sights set on becoming a Firefighter, now was the "Unknown" gong to set me back because of a split second irreversible injury, or do I fight forward to face the "Unknowable" of a career of firefighting or a fire industry career. Prepare for the "Unknown and the Unknowable" and you will be ready for whatever life may throw at you, even if it is a 4:45am painstaking of a knee wake up call.

Program for what you don’t know, have someone program for you so you don’t get caught up training all your likes instead of your dislikes. CrossFit Hard and CrossFit often! I'm prepared for the unknown and unknowable are you?