TORONTO -- For the first time in a long time, the shoe was on the other foot. Canadas Olympic and world ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have spent the past several years carefully managing Virtues lingering leg injuries. But it was Moir on the trainers table earlier this month when the two were forced to withdraw from the Finlandia Trophy. "It was interesting," Moir said on a conference call Thursday, a week before their season debut at Skate Canada International. "I havent missed a competition due to injury for quite a while, and its not very much fun. Its not something I plan on doing again." Virtue, 23, and Moir, 25, had to pull out of what would have been their season-opening event two weeks ago in Finland when Moir strained a muscle in his neck. "We got stuck in a lift, I brought Tessa down on my head the wrong way and it jarred my neck so I wasnt really able to train for a couple of days," Moir said. "My physio team was worried that if I got caught in a lift, which obviously we would have to do, that I could herniate the disc. "It was not worth it if I go there and I happened to get caught in the same position that I could be out for the fall or even the year." Moir said his neck is 100 per cent healed, hes not feeling any limitations and their lifts are good. Virtue, from London, Ont., and Moir, from Ilderton, Ont., won the world title last March in France in their first solid season of training since 2008. Virtue has been plagued by compartment syndrome in her legs for years. The injury led to a pair of surgeries and kept her off the ice for the better part of two seasons. She gritted her teeth and skated through the pain at the Vancouver Olympics. Three weeks after their scheduled debut, Virtue and Moir will open at Skate Canada, kicking off what Moir has dubbed "the 401 season," in reference to Ontarios Highway 401. The national championships are in Mississauga, while London, Ont., will host the world championships in March. "Its definitely a funny feeling, seems like this year were either in Russia or Ontario," Moir said. "Its been a while, I dont remember driving to very many Skate Canadas. But well definitely take it as a treat, we have some long trips this year, Four Continents in Japan, Sochi for (Grand Prix) Final if we qualify. . . theyre not easy trips." The dancers, who live and train in Canton, Mich., just across the border from Windsor, said while they enjoy competing at home, they have to be careful to treat the events like they would any other international competition. Theyll stay in a hotel in both Windsor and London. "It just helps get us in that mindset of being at a competition and taking the bus to the rink and getting in our little zone," Virtue said. "Its funny how far away from home you can feel even when youre just five minutes down the road but its all part of it. 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