I took five days off to try to let my achy soleus muscles heal . I rolled. I iced. I stretched. I popped ibuprofen like they were M&Ms.
Alas, they still hurt.
So, last week, I said the heck with it and started running again. I ran four easy miles on Oct. 19, then 10 on Saturday, October 22, and four again on Sunday. I took Monday off and did four Tuesday and nearly 5 today (Oct. 26.)
I did the 10-miler in my Asics Sky Speed and went back to the Saucony Kinvaras on the four-milers after that. Interestingly enough, after I warm up I feel so much better when I wear the Kinvaras, which have the 4mm heel-to-toe drop, than when I wear the Asics or even Adidas Bostons, (both of those shoes have about a 10 to 12mm heel-to-toe drop).
Speaking of warm up, I posted two pictures of screenshots from my Garmin Connect showing my Tuesday and Wednesday workout. Notice how slow I am the first mile of each run – about a 10 minute/mile. This is when things are really tight and still kind of painful… no, make that really painful.
But then, somewhere in the middle of Mile 2, the pain goes away and things loosen up and by the end of the run, I’m feeling pretty good, like 7-minute-mile good.
It takes a while for my calves to warm up
I’m limiting myself to runs no longer than 30- to 45 minutes and I’m icing and stretching and rolling like crazy.
Slowly, but surely, I’m starting to feel better, no pain while I’m at work, etc, etc.
Still, I think this puts the kibosh on my Dallas White Rock Marathon plans.
Even if I became 100 percent by Halloween, that would only give me about a month of good, hard training.
And though I know I can run the distance (it would have been my ninth marathon), I would have no confidence that I could race it or run it hard.
But there is always the Austin Marathon, in February.
I took five days off to try to let my achy soleus muscles heal . I rolled. I iced. I stretched. I popped ibuprofen like they were M&Ms.
Alas, they still hurt.
So, last week, I said the heck with it and started running again. I ran four easy miles on Oct. 19, then 10 on Saturday, October 22, and four again on Sunday. I took Monday off and did four Tuesday and nearly 5 today (Oct. 26.)
I did the 10-miler in my Asics Sky Speed and went back to the Saucony Kinvaras on the four-milers after that. Interestingly enough, after I warm up I feel so much better when I wear the Kinvaras, which have the 4mm heel-to-toe drop, than when I wear the Asics or even Adidas Bostons, (both of those shoes have about a 10 to 12mm heel-to-toe drop).
Speaking of warm up, I posted two pictures of screenshots from my Garmin Connect showing my Tuesday and Wednesday workout. Notice how slow I am the first mile of each run – about a 10 minute/mile. This is when things are really tight and still kind of painful… no, make that really painful.
But then, somewhere in the middle of Mile 2, the pain goes away and things loosen up and by the end of the run, I’m feeling pretty good, like 7-minute-mile good.
It takes a while for my calves to warm up
Slowly, but surely, I’m starting to feel better, no pain while I’m at work, etc, etc.
Still, I think this puts the kibosh on my Dallas White Rock Marathon plans.
Even if I became 100 percent by Halloween, that would only give me about a month of good, hard training.
And though I know I can run the distance (it would have been my ninth marathon), I would have no confidence that I could race it or run it hard.
But there is always the Austin Marathon, in February.