Achilles heel

[robinturner]

I have just realised a delicious irony. I've been spending all this time researching warriors, and reading translations and derivations of the Iliad, while being unable to do any martial arts practice. The reason? I have pulled a muscle in, of all places, my heel.

Achilles to Thetis: "When you dipped me in the Styx, why didn't you think of tying a string around my ankle rather than holding me by it?"

Comments

[tristan-moore.livejournal.com]

OUCH!!!!!! That is a painful muscle to mess up!

I hope you get heeled (pun intended) quickly :P

/remembers an Achilles tendon injury in figured skating. Hurt worse than having a cracked tailbone

[solri.livejournal.com]

Fortunately the tendon itself was undamaged; I've just strained that little muscle right on the heel where it connects to the sole (I've no idea what it's called). So it only hurts when I bend over or put my weight on it with the knee bent (as of course you have to do all the time in martial arts).

The funny thing was that I didn't acquire this minor but extremely irritating injury in training - I just bent down to pick a sock off the floor!