Maybe I'll Blog, Maybe I Won't

First run in 9 days.  Legs felt much better.  I don't feel like I lost too much in the way of fitness.  After the race last Saturday, my calves were completely destroyed.  I took Monday and Tuesday off planning to run again Wednesday.  However, Tuesday night sometime I had the worst charlie horse I can remember in my right calf.  The next morning it hurt to even walk so I took Wednesday off too.  Pain was right where the muscle transitions into the Achilles tendon and it felt weak and very sore.  Thursday came with no improvement, so I basically bagged the rest of the week, figuring the rest wouldn't hurt anyway.  Today I experienced no problems until the last half mile or so of my run when the pain returned with a vengeance.  I stopped and walked the last 100 yards or so.  This is not good.  I'm hoping that it's nothing, but we'll see how it feels tomorrow.

25:05 (7:10/mi.)

Injury Update:

Yes, I'm upgrading this stupid calf thing from the "minor, running-related aches and pains" category to "full blown injury" status.  It's weird because I feel nothing when walking, even up stairs, and even for a couple of minutes of running, but then all of a sudden it just feels as if something is ripping in my calf/Achilles and I have to stop.  I made it one mile today (not counting a slow warmup), so there is zero improvement over Monday, if it's not actually worse.  Will keep y'all posted.  I'm going to take one more week completely off and then evaluate it again.  On the bright side, for the few minutes I was able to run today I felt fantastic in every other respect.  Hopefully this thing heals quickly so that I don't start to lose significant fitness.

 7:45