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Nice to see some proper mara training going on. Unfortunately I think my London plans have been scuppered by injury. Achilles has been on/off for a few weeks, saw a physio on Friday to see if I could get a short-term fix prior to the Bath HM today, and a test run yesterday seemed perfectly fine, but there's clearly a big difference between 7-8m/m and 5:30-5:40m/m, and I decided roughly 1.5 miles into the race that my already compromised running gait wouldn't be getting any better, and called it a day.
The physio diagnosed tendinopathy, which to me means there is some damage that needs undoing, which means I might as well lay off running till that repair has obviously occurred. So twice-daily heel drops, purple spiky ball (ouch!) massage on specific areas of foot/calf, and lots of x-training in the shape of cycling, indoor rowing and elliptical trainer. Maybe I'll enter the indoor rowing champs again, I'm quite good at that when I put my back into it.
(Ar$e!)