Well with every new run comes another new pain. The newest pain is now in my right calf, on the outside, just behind my tibia. I was doing great in my run on Sunday. I was about 7 miles in and the pain started. I'd done some decent running that day. It was cold and blustery, a lot of the run was into the wind and I had a few decent hills to climb. I kept my pace controlled (or so I thought....i really need a nice GPS/HRM) at around 8:30 min/mi. Whether that's accurate or not is up to my the Distance program on my iphone, which I am not totally sure kept counting after the program fell asleep (despite the fact that it shouldn't fall asleep).
Anyways, this injury is probably more a result of me choosing a bad route than a recurring problem. I chose to go down a very very steep hill. Steep like 10% grade....like they close it when it rains in the fall because the leaves make it too slippery to climb. so...stupid of me. I didn't go with the hill partly for fear of being hit by a car coming up the hill at 60 mph and partly cause i didn't want to fall on my ass. Anyways, I got down the hill and ran maybe another .5 miles and the pain started. Eventually I could not press off the outside of my right foot and it turned into a slow painful shuffle home.
Oh yeah...the last .25 miles of my run ended with an uphill section.....OUCHHHHHH!
R,I,C,E...HEAT! STRETCHHHHH.
3 1 mile repeats on Wednesday. Hope I'm ready.
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