I have been a bit slack over the last two weeks as far as updating the progress of my training and also on the status of injury I have picked up. At least my training hasn’t been as slack as my updates! After seeing Dr Jon Patricios at the Morningside Sports Clinic the diagnosis was made that I have peroneal tendonitis. I am current seeing Derrick Carter, a physio, who is doing amazing work on my ankle.
Hopefully I’ll be back running within the next few weeks. I did go for a 3km run on Friday afternoon and it went really well. I felt very little discomfort during the run which I was extremely happy about but as I cooled down my foot became more and more tender. I saw Derrick on Saturday morning, had a pretty long treatment and felt a lot better afterwards. I definitely feel that we are making progress and I am confident I will be back running very soon. In the meantime I’ve been very keen to maintain my fitness levels and have been putting in some serious time on my mountain bike. For the last two weeks I’ve put in on average an hour a day on the bike. I’ve actually enjoyed the cross training more than I thought I would (other than yesterdays quad bike incident) and am pretty confident that I am going to continue riding on the days that I don’t run just to keep building my cardio vascular capacity and also for the added weight loss benefits. I also think the time on the bike can only make me a stronger and better runner. And who knows, I might even get in the pool soon and get cracking on some swimming cross training.
