My ankles continued to cause problems throughout this month L The 1 weeks intense physio which was meant to make them better spread to 3 weeks meaning I could only train from my fingers to my shoulders most of the month. Very frustrating!!! I was very low and must have been a nightmare to live with to say the least! My physios did a grand job of trying to cheer me up on a daily basis being more success on some days than others! They bought me a new kind of strapping which to my great delight came in pink and black. I am known for painting my nails to match my running kit so the physios dared me to paint my toes to match the tape – which of course I did.Due to the continued injury my target to beat the currently ranked number one Maltese girl never came about as I didn’t compete in the league matches. My coach did let me jog a relay leg in the last match so I didn’t feel too left out! However, my club (Pembroke Athleta) did win the league for the 13th year in a row much to all of our delight! We are sponsored by a local bar – yes a bar, we are clearly not in England! They gave us all t - shirts which we all wore out in the evening as we partied!
At the end of the month I returned home to Bolton which was supposed to be for a couple competitions with my club back here. When I arrived back I had done 1 weeks easy training so after much pleading with my coach he agreed I could compete as long as I didn’t push more than 80% - very hard to do in a race I must say! The first comp was a cup champs but as the women only had 4 members in the team there was no chance we were going to qualify! The second one was much more successful where we finished 2nd: it was a league match so the idea is to get as many poin
ts as possible so you end up doing lots of events! I did my own mini pentathlon – long jump, 100m, 200m, high jump and relay! I really enjoyed being back with the team and competing with them!!When I haven’t been training I have spent my time catching up with friends and having my annual MOT! This involves trips to the physio, podiatrist, dentist, hospital, hair cut trainer shopping etc etc. The trip to the podiatrist (the lady that makes the inner soles to go in my shoes) was very useful, as she managed to tell me what order all my injuries had occurred in and why. Now my i
nnersoles have been sent off to Canada to be altered slightly to try and stabilise things out. At the start of next month I go to have biomechanics tests done to test muscle strength and help with injury prevention – I’m really looking forward to it and think it will be very useful!!
