It was a petty straight forward, but enjoyable, day today. No juggling times or early starts. A simple 45 minute run at lunchtime with a couple of guys from work made training for the ironman seem no different from training for a marathons or 10k etc. It bought a kind of normality to the preparation which I find quite comforting but also worrying. Am I doing enough? Only time will tell. Perhaps, the evidence is that I was able to run fairly easily today despite having trained twice within the past 18 hours and that I felt I could have carried on for the same amount of time again. My only issue today was having 2 near misses with cars pulling out of drives, despite it being daytime, wearing a high viz waterproof jacket and being 90kg and 6'2"" tall. I am hardly difficult to spot.
On a more niggley note one of the ongoing issues I have is the on and off pain in my ankle when I wake up in the morning and often when stand up after sitting down for extended periods. I am wondering if it is linked to the inflexible feet that my swim coach was referring to. So with the wonders of the WWW I looked at the image of the muscles etc in the foot to try a bit of self diagnosis. Ah ha. I can see that it maybe the “Inferior Extensor Retinacalum” that may be causing the issue.
“Well spotted doctor, and your recommendation for treatment”“I haven’t a clue”
“Maybe rest, ice, massage, stretching, heat, give it a few weeks and see what happens?”
Sounds reasonable.......or not
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