Real Life Triathlon: Ben Butler on his road to Henley (Part 2)

Created On: 06 February 2011

Ben Butler one of the winners of a free place at this years Challenge Henley has sent us his latest update on his progress on his road to Henley…

A few weeks ago whilst on a run, my right leg and I had a bit of a tiff. It started giving me problems about half way around my normal 6k loop, realising that it was rapidly worsening and it ended up getting out of hand. Over 3 weeks on now and the leg still isn't back to normal despite my resting and appointments with the doctor. The pain is worst when walking up stairs and down hills, and has been diagnosed as a case of Pes Ansernine Bursitus.

In other words, I'm injured. And it looks like I'll stay injured for a good few weeks, which sucks big time. I haven't been able to get any solid cycling done, or any running whatsoever since my fateful run 22 days ago. However after 3 visits to the doctors we've finally managed to whittle it down to a diagnosis. Basically the tendons that attach one of my hamstring muscles to the inside of my right lower leg is poorly. This diagram shows what the deal is pretty well:

I've got an appointment with a local sports physio tomorrow so hopefully I'll find out what I can and can't do, and how long I'm going to be out of action for. In the meanwhile I'm concentrating on swimming, upper body strength and trying to get my dissertation finished by the time I'm back in action so that I'll have more time to train. It's also made me realise how much I take my body for granted so looking on the bright side it's been a lesson learnt.

However I can't wait to get back on the bike soon (I hope)!

To read the first part of Ben's story click HERE

Ben will continue to update us with his progress but you can also follow him on his blog HERE.

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