I got back from a snowboarding trip to Morzine a couple of weeks ago.

I’d been looking forward to it, and in particular, getting to do “The Satellite Run” on a powder day again. Its been 2 years since I first experienced the childlike joy of floating down this legendary off pister so I was perhaps a little… over-enthusiastic.

Well, 30 seconds in, I managed to dig the nose of my board into the powder and perform an involuntary double front somersault – fairly spectacular, I’m sure.

On the first rotation, I managed to take my full weight on my back leg which hit the deck at about 30mph and compressed with a nice, ligamenty squelch.

A torn medial meniscus, no less.

2 weeks later, the limp is getting better and I find out tomorrow whether I get the joys of an arthroscopy or not.