Forced Rest!!

Well, it has happened again, like the past 2 years marathon training - Ive been forced to rest.

Ive been "managing" an achilies situation, i have been able to train throughout. Ive been having physio and doing loads of re-hab exercises. Which for an achillies is all about doing eccentric movements. Its the lowering part of the move that apparently help to reform the fibres in the tendon. So i have to do what my physio calls "drop offs". Which is calf raises but rather than going up on both toes, i go up on my good leg, swap over to my bad still sqeezing out through the toes, then lower the ankle down on the bad, then continue. So the bad leg only ever lowers down off the step, never raises up.

Anyhow, i saw him on Monday and he told me i should not run for the rest of the week! When someone says that you, it feels like an eternity - A WEEK!!!! He said to give myself a fighting chance for the marathon i need to rest now.

So, like all previous years, when ive got an injury during marathon training and ended up having to take time off from running - im now convincing myself that all my fitness has gone and i need surgery. My state of mind goes into very negative, doom and gloom mode. I do try to over rule this voice with the "sensible voice" in my head, but i think like most of us, the negative one seems to win!

So, im not running and trying to still keep active, as im away this week in Zurich, ive not got access to my usual gym and i have to use the gym in the hotel, which isnt that great. So it doesnt fill me with enthusiasm to go there.

Im seeing Keith (physio) on Sunday evening when i get back from work and hoping things would have settled down a bit. I want it to be fixed in one week of rest!! I know this is not the case and hopefully a week of not running will have given things a chance to settle down.