People often say that the hardest part is admiting it - well I am ready: "I am injured". Phew, with that over I can plough on with rehab (ice, ice, rest, ice, stretch, ice, massage, ice, ice, and jog!!)
The story follows: I had an "end of season" tight achilies which I attributed to lots of hurdling. So I took a break. Then I resumed "jogging" on holiday where my tight achillies persisted and here I justified it as "dehydration and wearing flip flops". I returned from holidays and embarked on winter training during which my poor achillies gradually got worse and worse and the "start of winter training" excuse eventually fell flat. A full week off (that coincided with lots of biking during the late Sept heatwave) and I set off on my 3 mile jog return....ouch, back to square one. Then, I did what every runner knows they shouldn't but always does, I raced. Not good. Whilst my warm up was fine (a dull ache) racing over cross-country in spikes tested it a bit too much and left it feeling very vulnerable and sensitive.
Time to take some days off and get it fixed properly before resuming running! Booo hoo!
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