Any question answered...

Had to cut short my London to Land's End and back trip yesterday (122 miles into day 5 of 6.. grr) because of a leg/foot thing that was causing massive amounts of pain.

Questions: Is pain above the heel every time you pedal (and spreading to the rest of your leg) likely to be tendonitis? I've never had it before but it felt like quite a tendonesque injury.

Also, if it is that how long am I likely to be broken for? I want to go see if I'm any better at hills in Kent.

Put a couple of fingers in the hollow behind your ankle- the area where Achilles mum Thetis is supposed to have held him as she dipped him in the Styx.

Now flex your foot up and down.

If what you feel is the tendon running smoothly under the skin, then it's not tendinitis.

If it feels like a gritty, snagged rope is being pulled through a too small passage in your heel, then it's tendinitis.

Jim jumped about 6 feet when he felt my tendon when it was inflamed*, it's unmistakablly "wrong".

*Not a euph.