Progress!

I'm now having physio for the calf (and achilles and shin) and it's going really well. The initial estimate was between 6 & 8 weeks before I'd be back out on the streets (about Xmas time) but I think it will be before that. I did some hopping exercises last night and no pain! Another bout of agony, sorry physio, tomorrow and then a week in Canada resting, I mean working. We'll see how it is after that.

Sigh

The injury is not healing quickly enough. Despite massage, ice, rest, anti-flams etc, it's still niggling away. My own fault because the major problem is now the shin which I probably damaged by trying to run with a calf injury. I suppose that throbbing pain was actually mother nature telling me that something was wrong. So it'll be a while yet before I'm back out & about - and I need new running shoes too.

I might get myself some physio if things don't progress over the next week. Either that or a massage from the woman with no hands.

Had to happen!

Having run with a sore calf for about 6 weeks, it was bound to let go at some point. Tonight was the night. Following a jet-lagged, full-of-cold, sore calf run on Tuesday (I'm sure I could think of a couple of other excuses if necessary) with the Harriers, I iced and massaged the pain on Wednesday and then went for a short loop tonight. Agony. I almost, for the first time ever, failed to complete a run that I'd started. But being made from sterner (and stupider) stuff, I carried on to the end but at some cost I think.

Tomorrow should tell more but I've already ruled myself out of the Abingdon Marathon later this month. Not a chance of either completing that in my goal time (3 hrs ish) or completing it at all given my current state!

Anyhoo, here's the output from Tuesday's pretty quick (6.52 mile pace) run:

Harriers Tuesday Night

This was the route from last Tuesday. Another route that had it all; bit of road, mix of trail, slogging hill up, fast hill down and a rapid finish (sub 6 min for the last mile!). Probably the last off-road route of the summer though :( Back to dodging the traffic of Cheltenham!

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Bushcombe x 2

Two good runs over the weekend. A regular slog up Bushcombe Hill on Friday as part of a local 8 miler followed up with a cross country version totally just over 9 miles yesterday. Twice up Bushcombe Hill in two days - madness.

Now the slight soreness in my right calf of a couple of weeks ago is starting to give me cause for concern. It's not getting any worse, despite some hard running, but it's not getting better - because of some hard running. So, as most adult, sensible adults do - I'll just ignore it and carry on. I'm icing it every night and stretching etc, but it needs a rest (rest? humph).

I'll hopefully get a fair amount of rest next week when I (and my sore calf) go to the US for a few days. I won't have chance for much serious running, so an opportunity to take it easy.

Right, back to the hilly stuff and here's the route from yesterday...

Long, wet run

I rounded off my week with a 16.2 mile run home from work yesterday. The first two miles were in the dry, the following 14 in the rain! Will it ever stop? I managed a fairly consistent 7.30min/mile pace all the way and felt reasonably comfortable throughout. Knackered today though!

Will be having a rest over the weekend and probably run again on Monday & Tuesday.