Injuries and addictions.

Inevitable that you pick up the odd niggle with this level of training. Quite annoyingly it's my turn now. An inflamed achilles tendon is stopping me from doing anything but swim.

It seems I have some sort pre-disposition to this particular kind of problem. Previously I have had to suffer tendonitus in my left shoulder, left wrist (not what you think - I'm right handed!) and right hip. The hip was by far the worst and I spent a long time ignoring it. In the end it took about 6 months rest and a steroid injection to sort it. For that period I hobbled round like some sort of pensioner. In fact it was that injury alone that caused me to ever take a desk-job!

I'm particularly annoyed with this though as I was getting to a really satisfying place with my fitness. Ihad to sit out the Merrell Mudman last week, which was gutting as sounded like a ridiculously hard but fun event. My priority now is to get the tendonitus down as quick as possible, at least so I can compete in the Grim Challenge in just over a week, even if I don't do as well as I could have.

Unfortunately with this kind of injury rest is the only solution. However, I am apparently now hooked on exercise as the last ten days without running have been like going cold turkey on a ten year crystal meth addiction! I'm crawling the walls, and every now and then need to sneak down to the swimming pool for the only kind of hit I'm allowed. Swimming - a poor man's trim-trail, methadone to the smack that is proper training with Team Everest!