The Injury

Well yep I got injured!! my right hand calf muscle...I ripped or pulled about 20 minutes into a run session a couple of weeks back.

Well here is some advice, if it happens to you, don't be typical bloke and carry on running on it for an hour or so.....It just makes worse!!! I learnt this lesson.

Here's another piece of advice listen to the Physio and Masseuse as they know what they are talking about and don't try and rush back to training/running..... it makes recovery longer and makes the injury worse.

Well ummm I think I have learnt my lesson, kind off!!

Anyway:

I have started light running again with no tempo stuff and it is beginning to feel stronger. You cannot believe how frustrating it is, as cardio wise I feel really good at the mo. To be honest, I have always been rubbish at rehab, even when I was skiing, I tried rush back too soon.

This takes me back to when I was in Meribel suffering from a broken leg and wrist, both nearly heeled but not quite, so I went skiing with my mates on one ski!! no poles. At the time I could not understand why everything was hurting!!

So the leg is beginning to heel, I have some wicked stretching exercises to do which seem to be working, the Physio has given me this stretching ramp to work my calf's and hamstrings.....it works.

So today will be an endurance swim session with my weights and stretching/core stuff tonight.

I will do a run session off the turbo on Friday but very gently!!! Then a long ride on Saturday.

So that should all be good! After that I'm off skiing to Tignes to catch up with mates, watch the World Champs in Val and do a few swim sessions. This is so cool, as the pool in Tignes is great for training as is the gym which has loads of treadmills, what helps is that the village is at an altitude of 2100 meters above sea level, so it gets you puffing a bit!!

Catch you soon guys