After my physio appointment on Tues I just keep thinking than there is more to pain than purely my left ankle rolling in. I've had these insoles in now for over a month and initially they did seem to make a difference but I don't think they are the total solution. I'm still getting shin pain and pain and the back and sides of both ankles are incredibly tight. I just think that somewhere along the line that this has all been caused by chronic muscle tension. This week my neck and shoulders hurt like mad. I spent most of yesterday trying to continually stretch the backs of my legs around the achilles area, hoping that this would loosen things up.
Last night I decided to try a run and I have to say things did feel a bit looser, not brilliant but certainly an improvement. So the plan is to keep up the stretching as often as I can. The run took about 50mins or so, about a mile from home I was running over Hawkeshead St bridge when I suddenly realised that the lad in front of me was the victim of an attempted robbery. I immediately hit the off button of my ipod and intervened, I asked the lad if he was alright and the aggressor immediately backed off. I don't know if he had a weapon of any sort my main concern was for the victim, both kids were around aged 15. I told the lad I would walk with him and whilst the aggressor followed us for a short while he disappeared down the stone steps at the side of the bridge. The kid told me after I had asked that the aggressor told him to give him his mobile phone. At the bottom of the bridge being happy that the kid was safe to continue home I left him as I turned left and he crossed the road and into a side street. A number of people at work today said I was very brave for intervening but a situation occured and I just reacted I'm not the kind of person who would just walk on by even though I'm only just over 5ft myself. The kid was really shook up so I suggested to him to ring the police or to get his parents to do so when he got home. Anyway, I decided to report the incident to the police myself just in case the aggressor was looking for another potential victim.
