another set back

If you have followed my tail of woe, you would think I was only beggar in the world who has suffered a setback with injury. After my last post the bad news is that I havent run since March 3. Unfortunately I hadnt completely recovered from the bruised heel and a lacklustre 10km effort at Striders excascerbated my foot to the point where I could barely walk the next day.

I cannot begin to describe how frustrating it has been. Each morning I awake to the sound of number 2 ready to have his morning feed. I turn to mother and tell her how painful it is to walk down the stairs to fetch him. No sympathy from mother however at 5.30, she informs when I am able to breastfeed she will go and get him!

I have the words- 'you cant run on it until it doesn't hurt anymore' ringing in my head. I reckon I was 90% right and possibly an extra 2 weeks or so would have seen me back running now instead of starting back at square one. What can I say, I am an impatient fool. So comeback number 4 is well under way hopefully.

The good news is that I am having positive results from massage. I have it massaged by Nikki's sister who is a qualified masseur(sp) whenever I can and self massaging every night with voltarin. She has offered to look at for ages but for one reason or another it was only recently that I asked her to take a look(it is not the sort of thing you would ask your in law to do on Christmas day/christenings/birthdays etc!)

Nikkis sister had one feel of the affected area and said I had 3 significant areas of calcification in the heel(ie 3 heel spurs!). I was at her home the next day for a proper massager and have been improving ever since.

So the proverbial piece of string is no closer to discovering its finite length visa vi (sp) recovery time. However it feels about as good as it did when I resumed running last time but I am being incredibly cautious. I am still suffering significant pain first thing in the motrnings but it is decreasing and I am hoping to be back running in April sometime, but only when everything is back to normal.

The other positive is that my swimming has improved considerably - I still find that very boring, but at least it gets the heartrate going and has helped me not stack on too much extra poundage. That said there will be about 5 or 6 kgs to shed to back to best running shape.

Apologies for very bland blog entry if you follow it, but this has been one of my hardest postings to date. To be perfectly honest I have avoided blogging as it is becoming increasingly more difficult to post the bad news and the reasons why I am posting it.

I am not one to dwell too much though, I am pragmatic about my running and where it slots into the big picture. I guess that whilst one part of the puzzle doesnt come together at a particular point, it allows us to focus in other areas of our lives. Running is really big for me but it doesnt rule my world. I do however look forward to devoting some more time to this area of the puzzle again in the not too distant future.

Hopefully some good news not too far down the way.