My calves are cranky
Well, this is becoming an injury filled year.
First, a stress reaction in my pelvis caused me to miss about 5 weeks of running.
Now, my calves hurt. I guess the scientific word for the body part that aches is my soleus. In both legs. The pain is bad. Real bad. It used to go away after a mile or two of running. Now, it never goes away. And now the pain is so intense that I missed two runs last week, including a planned 14-miler on Saturday. (I cut that run short after half a mile when my pace got no faster than 11:30 min/mile because I was wincing with each step.)
When I start missing long runs, that’s not a good thing.
The culprits for my calf pain are the Saucony Kinvaras I bought last month . They are a virtual zero-drop, minimalist shoe. I was supposed to ease my way into those shoes, but being hard-headed, I put 55 miles on them the first week out of the box, including a 20-miler. That’s way too much stress too fast to put on calf muscles that were used to running in thick-heeled running shoes for much of the past 7 years.
At first, the pain and stiffness was manageable. It is then when I should have been much more religious about R-I-C-E (rest, ice, compression, elevation). Yet I did nothing, and even increased my mileage and speed.
Now.. blink… I’m laid up and even though I’m now icing two or three times a day, it’s too late.
No running until the pain goes away. I’m not sure what this means for my Dallas White Rock Lake marathon, which isn’t until Dec. 4. I’m what you call an experienced marathoner and so if this injury only caused me to miss a week of training, I’d probably still run White Rock.
But if I have to miss any more time than that, I’ll have to bail.
Boo.
(And it’s nobody’s fault but mine!)
My calves are cranky
Well, this is becoming an injury filled year.
First, a stress reaction in my pelvis caused me to miss about 5 weeks of running.
Now, my calves hurt. I guess the scientific word for the body part that aches is my soleus. In both legs. The pain is bad. Real bad. It used to go away after a mile or two of running. Now, it never goes away. And now the pain is so intense that I missed two runs last week, including a planned 14-miler on Saturday. (I cut that run short after half a mile when my pace got no faster than 11:30 min/mile because I was wincing with each step.)
When I start missing long runs, that’s not a good thing.
The culprits for my calf pain are the Saucony Kinvaras I bought last month . They are a virtual zero-drop, minimalist shoe. I was supposed to ease my way into those shoes, but being hard-headed, I put 55 miles on them the first week out of the box, including a 20-miler. That’s way too much stress too fast to put on calf muscles that were used to running in thick-heeled running shoes for much of the past 7 years.
At first, the pain and stiffness was manageable. It is then when I should have been much more religious about R-I-C-E (rest, ice, compression, elevation). Yet I did nothing, and even increased my mileage and speed.
Now.. blink… I’m laid up and even though I’m now icing two or three times a day, it’s too late.
No running until the pain goes away. I’m not sure what this means for my Dallas White Rock Lake marathon, which isn’t until Dec. 4. I’m what you call an experienced marathoner and so if this injury only caused me to miss a week of training, I’d probably still run White Rock.
But if I have to miss any more time than that, I’ll have to bail.
Boo.
(And it’s nobody’s fault but mine!)