Structures around the ankle deal with a lot of stuff just on daily basis. Throw a little sport into the mix and there’s some serious physical requirements going on down there. For example the forces exerted on the Achilles tendon during running have been predicted to be up to 10x body weight (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/7132650/) (and some […]
Author: James Cato
Ankle Sprains
Everyone knows that ankle sprains are one of the most common injuries in sports. But a big part of the reason they’re so common is because it’s not very well looked after. Nearly all of us that have played any sport for a decent amount of time will have had an ankle sprain and in […]
Sticking to the Plan (Not!)
Return to Running The biggest downside this last 10 days has been not sticking to the plan of cycling and swimming more. A long weekend away to Scotland for a wedding scuppered most of my training days so I only completed the achilles rehab and even then was using just my body weight. However I […]
Achilles Rehab
Achilles On Monday I completed what will probably be my last run for the next few weeks while I’m working on my achilles. A quick 5km run along the flat Thames Path and what turned out to be my best 5km time since 2015! But I’ll be taking this as an opportunity to concentrate on […]
New Challenge
Immortal Half 2020, Stourhead So about 3 weeks ago my best mate Steve sent me a short message just after 10pm, it simply said “You up?”. About 48 hours later I was in receipt of an email from Race-Nation confirming my entry into the Immortal Half 2020! What is the Immortal Half? Well it’s a […]