Injured.. Day-13 off-running

As I cited in the training log, there's been pain on left ankle up to inner muscle of left foot since Week -3 (Week started 5 Mac 2012). The pain had been affecting training volume, performance and I got to omit some training days week before the race. On the week before race, I took off on recovery day and did only speed run and aerobic, hoping to maintain the fitness while not leading to more injury. I did streching and massage hope to help recovery.

I was honestly no idea I can make it on the race day, or complete the race. I was just rely on what the body told me. It was a complex psychology. On one hand you know you got to rest, on the other you hope the training on that evening will tell you "ah, you still able to complete the 6x1000m interval today" but the pain at night remind you the injury.

When you talked to colleagues or friends, they would all ask you to rest and don't care about the race and training. They would feel sympathy and they would say there's still another race, your foot is more important. Some will introduce different master for massage, orthopedics, chiropractor, etc. Which if you still grumbling about the training, it's your fault because all the ways has been laid in front of you.

I guess the psychology part is what I cannot get over. Just like we hard to understand a person contracted a disease. Do you have friends or relatives with serious disease and whatever you said they just don't want to understand? You gave advice and ways try to indicate hope, and got fed up when they still stuck with their sadness. In order to cool you down, they may just accept anything for them and keep whatever in their heart deep down.

Thanks to the nature of shin splints and the level of injury, I was able to complete the race. But it come with price... I am in my Day-13 of run free day. Another training season should be starting next 2 days for Gold Coast Marathon, I started to get nervous. I did supplementary training like stretching, core training and weight lifting during the 2 weeks. A forced rest let me discover all varieties of supplementary program which I neglected and I think help up running a lot. Consider a gain from the injury and be grateful for this.

The pain improved as compare to 2 weeks ago. No more pain after I woke up. Can I back on the road on next Tuesday?