Frida Karlsson will miss the national team camp in Italian Val Senales.
In a month, the World Cup season will start, and she doesn't know how long it will take before she's back on skis again.
I can't say for sure, but I hope to be in Ruka. That's my goal, says Karlsson about the World Cup premiere in the Finnish ski resort on November 29-December 1.
Karlsson answered questions at a digital press conference from Tenerife, where she is currently rehabilitating.
"On a different planet"
Training right now consists of cycling and gym.
It feels like I'm on a different planet, she says about the environment that should be snowy now.
She says she hopes to be able to increase her training in about a week.
The problems with her left foot have been haunting her on and off over the past few years.
But she describes it as her foot having felt good during the summer, and that she therefore has trained harder than she should have.
When things are going well and everything is rolling, you don't think you need to take care of your foot. It's easy for me to discover things a bit too late.
"Damn, how stupid I am"
She says she's being self-critical:
You always do, damn, how stupid I am to make the same mistake again. Now my physio will be in charge of my rehabilitation, she says.
She doesn't feel any worry about the World Championship in Trondheim on February 26-March 9.
The World Championship is four months away, so there's plenty of time. I'll try to take it one step at a time, says Frida Karlsson.
In a press release, the national team's doctor Rickard Noberius says about the injury:
"It's an overload in the soft tissues of her left foot, which in combination with a tough training autumn has contributed to overload and misload of, among other things, her groin. A combination that means Frida needs to back off from snow training – and focus on rehabilitation and alternative training".
