Ouch!

With no one to blame but myself as I organised training last night, I seem to have suffered the first injury of the close season.

After sitting watching an hour or so of TV last night after training, before heading for my bath, I felt a pain in my right Achilles tendon. I had felt it earlier in the day when I got up from my desk to go for lunch but it had gone away over the course of the evening. It was just a tightening but it made me walk with a limp (steady!!!).

By the time I'd watched an atrocious film on Sky Movies about an ancient temple covered in flesh eating vines, the pain had been joined by a swelling. The worrying thing was that when I tried to compare the size and shape of the swollen and painful tendon to the other one, I found a lump about the size of a garden pea under the skin on the non-painful tendon. Meanwhile back at swelling central, there was a large hard band developing around the tendon.

I had hoped a good night's sleep would cure my ills and while the swelling had subsided by the time I reached my bath this morning, the pain was still there. I've found that moving around and doing ankle circles relieves the tightness, pain and swelling, so I'm doing that to make things better.

I can't miss training on Monday as I already have Wednesday booked out for a Meet the Parents night at my son's school where he starts in September. We're not in their usual catchment area, but his friends will all go there. As we live across the border in the next Metropolitan Council area, it was no surprise when our application for a place for him was rejected.

We saw no point in making an appeal as the class was full. When we came back from holiday an unsolicited review had been completed by the Governors and he had a place, so he'll not be separated from his nursery classmates after all!