MT - Day 13

Yesterday I was scheduled to run 7, my long run of week 2. My left calf was still feeling a little tight from the speed work I did Wednesday so I postponed that run to today. I have been icing it the last few days without much success. Before I started training I was having some foot/ankle issues in my left foot anyway. I went and got it checked out and I have some soft tissue damage from some bones near my toes working too hard, stressing out, and inflaming <----- I should've been a doctor. He gave me some stretches to do 3x a day, every day. I have done those stretches zero times a day, every day. Until today. 


Before I hit mile 1 my calf start killing me and it never relented. It was tight the whole run and now I am limping. The entire time I kept repeating mantras, like "pain is fear leaving the body". I'm not even sure if that is how it goes but it sounded good and worked for me. Well once I got home I did my normal stretches and immediately did the doctor suggested ones, and took some pics for your viewing pleasure. 

Some kind of hip-flexor stretch...felt really good

The next was a foot exercise where you ball up some tissue

Pick it up with your toes 

And bring it up to your opposite hand

I did 20 of these. It doesn't seem like it would do much but holy hurt it did. My hips and foot felt so stretched afterwards. I think I will start doing these as recommended. 

I might also check out "The Stick" to help with some calf relief and wear my Zensah calf sleeves the next few days. 

When my parents and God were in the planning stages I don't think they ever intended on me being a runner, hence my flintstone flat feet and big boobs but with the help of the billion dollar running industry (not sure if it's billion, I just made that up) I am pushing through. It's kind of ironic that I really need all this stuff because it is the one thing that kind of makes me hate running. I hate seeing people decked out in full fledged running gear just to have "the look" when they can't even run a mile. It drives me nuts how expensive all this stuff is and how people have to pay to join running groups. It's stupid. It is. I obviously buy this stuff because a lot of it does work, but it doesn't mean I can't complain about it. Ok, I think I am done venting now. 

My splits were:

mile 1 - 9:42

mile 2 - 9:28

mile 3 - 9:40

mile 4 - 10:01

mile 5 - 10:03

mile 6  - 9:59

mile 7 - 9:31

Total time 1:08:24, Average Pace 9:46

Off to enjoy my Sunday! Enjoy yours as well!