Change of plans for today and the next few days: a little
rest and rehab.
In a couple entries, I’ve mentioned that I’ve had some
intermittent calf pain. It’s worse on running days and feels significantly
better after a night’s rest. It’s not debilitating, and generally speaking, the
impact of foot strikes is to blame. Yesterday, it hurt pretty good in the
afternoon. Now I’m a pretty stubborn guy, but I woke up this morning and decided
that it’s a much better idea to try to get this under control now, seven months
out, than in the thick of hard-core training in February.
A little Internet research has essentially confirmed what I
suspected: I just need to give the thing a little break.
So rather than go out for my planned run today, I headed down
to the gym and got on the elliptical. I did a full hour on the random resistance
setting at a pretty good clip. I have no idea about mileage, because the thing
said I’d gone 15 miles, which seems rather unlikely. But I was huffing and
puffing at the end, so I’m going to say it was the cardio equivalent of an
hour-long run. I will say this: The resistance goes from 1 to 20, and a couple
of intervals in the program are at 18, which is freaking hard!
I’ll keep the impact on the leg to a minimum the next few
days and see where things stand. If I can’t get my long in this weekend, it’ll
be a hard-core Sunday morning at the gym. Tomorrow I think will be strength
training only, focusing on my core.
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