 Gurr began training, virtually only being able to use one leg while swimming and doing the turns at each end of the pool, and using the crutches at all times, with no weight bearing on that leg.Not missing months of training was very important at this time, as her first International Games, the Commonwealth Games, were coming up in the summer of 1970.The cast was removed twice, once to qualify for the Games trials, and then again for the Commonwealth Trials in Edmonton.