Hi all,

Thanks for your ideas.

I've been having a think about my situation and I've decided that the first thing I need to do is improve my dorsiflexion, which has got noticeably worse in the last few weeks. So I've started doing this exercise "self ankle dorsiflexion MWM" - http://jessephysio.wordpress.com/201...-dorsiflexion/

Once my injured calf is healed the heel drops with a bent knee to isolate the soleus sound like a good idea to improve strength under eccentric load, and I'll also do seated heel raises with a weight on knee, again to isolate the soleus.

Weak glutes like Lyndon says above has come up for me before in the book "Anatomy For Runners" by Jay Dicharry (definitely worth a read; in fact I need to re-read my copy) - his theory being that weak glutes make the calf do more work than it should be. Glute function is something I have been working on this year though so should be better than it was.

If anyone has any more thoughts please keep them coming.