Today I was scheduled to run 7mi at a moderate to slow pace, which for me is about 8:00 to 8:30 min/mile. I again spent the morning making sure that my calf was wrapped in an ace bandage and constantly had icyhot or regular ice on it.
For today's run I kept the bandage on my calf to see how that would work, and it worked awesome. I also decided to run on highways with a nice level gravel shoulder to reduce impact, but I was able to go about 3.5 miles before I started to feel any pain. I then walked for .25 miles, and then ran some more. Then at 5.5 miles I had some more pain, and walked home after each test run had me feeling pain again. My workout was cut short from 7 miles to 6, but I am not too distressed by this since recovering from my injury is a higher priority then getting my miles in. Once I got back home I massaged my leg with an ice cube (yet another trick I found on the web to cure shin splints), then proceed with RICE.
I think that tomorrow I will be taking my bike out for about 30min, even though I know I could run the 3 mile recovery run I am supposed to do, because Tuesday has me set for 7x Hill repeats, and I want to make sure that I am physically able to do that.
Overall I am excided about my seemingly quick recovery rate!
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