July & August – Wittenberg & Saas Fee with Team Evolution

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Posted on August 1, 2017 by zmetheringham

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1st June 2017 – Team Evolution Norwich Camp

Posted on June 1, 2017 by zmetheringham

My first ever skiing on that plastic stuff.

29th May 2017 – Team Evolution Weekend

Posted on May 29, 2017 by zmetheringham

Gone Nuts with my Team Evolution team mates.

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28th May 2017 – Team Evolution Testing Weekend @ RAF Brize Norton

Posted on May 28, 2017 by zmetheringham

Testing with Team Evolution before the start of the new season.

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12th – 19th February 2017 – Bormio (English Champs 2017) Rehabilitation Day 321

Posted on February 21, 2017 by zmetheringham

321 days since Tignes, finally back on snow !

Great to fly out to Bormio and catch up with my Team Evolution friends, SMK friends and everyone is the ski world again. Too early to race in Rehab journey but great to be in the mix again.

Big thanks to everyone who asked how my rehab was going. Had a few days free-skiing, a day or two in GS, Kombi and Full gates and it was great. Thank you Team Evo ! Plus new Team Evolution kit ! Great time in Milan and found an amazing Gluten Free Bakery !!! and finally found Gluten Free MacD’s! (Again massive thanks to all those who have helped me in the last 321 days!)

16th November 2016 – Rehabilitation Day 233 – BACK ON SNOW!!!

Posted on November 16, 2016 by zmetheringham

So back on the 28th March 2016 I had a massive tumble in Tignes and ended the day in surgery. It’s been a long hard 233 days of no-sport, rehabilitation in the gym with BRPC, examination and testing with Elite Physical Medicine, and massive frustration but always trying to smile.

So today I was allowed to Ski again. Ben put me through my paces with very easy set of drills to test out my knee. All the tests went well, so its the start of a slow and steady build-up of drills over the next few weeks !

Thank you to all that have helped me get to this stage, the Doctors at Bourge St Maurice and Stoke Mandeville, Team Evolution (Lesley for looking after me at hospital and Paul and Alex), all the Evo Parents and Athletes, Paul and Gus at Elite, Ben at Ben Reid Performance Coaching, all the staff and my school mates at Beachborough School for putting up with my non-sport frustrations, SSE Alpine Squad Management for having faith & confidence in me and giving me time to rehab, Snozone for the early piste time and lastly my family for keeping my spirits up and helping keep the drive going !

Z Man will be back !

12th April 2016 – Rehab Day 17 – Rest at Home

Posted on April 12, 2016 by zmetheringham

Been resting at home, playing loads of PS4 games and watching movies.

Paul at Team Evolution has set me lots of Recovery Tasks, so been learning German on the Duolingo App (its great and can do 10-20 mins a day), also practicing my juggling.

One other task he has set is to research Olsson’s, Vonn’s and Svindal’s injuries and any special exercises during their rehab, together with how the did something fun during their rehab to keep their mind in focus.

Lindsey Vonn – low res

Aksel Lund Svindal – low res

Jon Olsson – low res

29th March 2016 – Recovery Starts Here

Posted on March 29, 2016 by zmetheringham

Lesley stayed overnight with me, and also in the hospital room was Benny from Kent, UK. He had broken his femur in 2 places and the same Surgeon had operated on him after me.

Woke up, sore but in good spirits. Reidy had dropped in and dropped off some stuff including the demolished piste marker.

A day spent sleeping and resting and waiting for Dad to turn up, which he did in the afternoon.

28th March 2016 – Training Accident

Posted on March 28, 2016 by zmetheringham

Whilst training with Team Evolution for the Delancey British Championships in Tignes today, I landed in a funny angles, spun round and smashed through a piste marker.

Little did I know that, my fall was going to be bigger than I thought and ruin my whole Summer Season of training and racing.

After being rescued off the piste, I was taken to Le Lac Hospital, assessed and immediately transferred to the Hospital at Bourg Saint Maurice. On arrival I was re-x-rayed and straight into the operating theatre.

A massive thanks to John Reidy and Alex Reidy for their on piste emergency assistance.

So, after a 3 hour operation to plate and screw my chipped patella, and re attached my snapped patella tendons and 13 stitches (beat you Jonny M!), I was in recovery for what would be the next 3 days in hospital.

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Throughout it all our wonderful Team Evolution house mum, Lesley stayed with me whilst my Parents looked at travelling out. She was amazing and I can not thank her enough for being there.