I see your point thanks Monkey - still, since it's not restrictive, just painful if I stir it up, it's no excuse to loose. If I loose it'll be because the better person won on the day.

The only thing is that I have to go easy with training right now so my lead up is not going to be very structured. To be honest though it never is - no one's ever really taught me how to tell how long I should be tapering for, how hard to go in the preceding weeks to a comp etc. I guess that's something I still have to research and trial myself!

I am getting it treated by the chiro and so far she's only giving me advice for a few days in advance and telling me to come back if it's still bad. Technically I haven't been banned from competing - but at the same time I haven't exactly mentioned it's happening Still she was very positive this morning so it's possible I'm just blowing it all out of proportion because the timing bothers me!

Went to see her this morning and she was able to adjust a few points that have refused to move in the past so I'm hoping that's a good sign. I've been sleeping on the floor instead of my bed too and not waking up crunching my back into place 3 times before I move. I always thought I had a good mattress (still not very old and was expensive when I bought it) but maybe it's not as good as I thought! The cat and dog at my mum's place think I'm crazy though - sleeping on the floor there is an invite for the dog to pester me non stop!

There is a sauna close to my house so I might give that a go too thanks hitmandonny. I'm also trying to self massage and paying for a few. So typical that I have to be in pain to remember the stuff I should be doing anyway!