I have decided that I am not going to run the half marathon on Sunday tomorrow.

I did my 30 minute run back on day 45 after the light cycle on day 44. I planned to run an easy 3 miles and see how it went. Well about a mile and a quarter in to it my left calf went into spasm . I slowed to a walk, stretched it out and just tried to take it easy and see if it would loosen.

It didn’t stop so I finished up the session on the spot and wanted to see how it felt the next day. I did a lot of golf ball trigger pointing and had a sports massage to see if I could keep on top of it.

The following day I woke up with a swollen knee which was pretty painful. More Physio treatment and rest lead us to decide it was probably the cartilage so would just try and rest it. I went off for a holiday in Spain with the plan to keep resting it and doing some exercises in the pool and sea.

It still didn’t get much better so I had to think what I was going to do.

I almost did try and run it and thought I’d just put up with any consequences but the wife asked me a really simple question “What advice would you give your clients?” As soon as she said it I knew exactly what as a fitness professional I should be saying; “don’t run it’s not smart, it’s not clever and go and get it investigated by a specialist (probably end up getting an MRI scan) which will really answer the question”.

So I’m relegated to the support team for tomorrow’s event, but I’ll let you know how Sarah gets on.

Keep your eyes posted here as I’m going to tell you what I’ve been doing since I got back from holiday because I can still train other parts of my body. I’ve even been recording some of the exercises so you can see exactly what I’m getting up to.

Just because I’m injured doesn’t mean I can’t train!

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