Pennington on Road to Recovery

TSB: How were you feeling going into Nationals in Atlanta? What motivated you to keep working through the pain?

Parker: Let's just say I was not even close to myself at Nationals, but I tried to fight through all the adversity and give a decent performance. I had a sprained ankle and a terrible case of the flu. After my Junior grand prix in Poland at the end of October, I was forced to take several weeks off to heal a stress reaction in my foot. When I came back, I hurt my ankle and it was never okay before nationals. I lost valuable training time, and I would estimate I maybe had a week at most of doing triple jumps between November and Nationals in January, and that had an enormous effect on my skating for Nationals. I am finally healthy now, and hope to have a great year.

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