I may have made a big mistake. I ran an 8 mile aerobic builder today. I felt good energy wise, but started to have some calf pain about 5 miles into the run. By 6.5 miles in the pain was very intense, but because it had been a while since I had had a good workout I decided to push through it. The pain got bad enough that it was radiating through the whole calf and even up into the hamstring. I am now limping.
I did a 2 mile warm-up with strides, then the 8 miles in 42:50 (5:21.5 average), then 1 mile cool down. Splits were: 5:19, 5:20, 5:25, 5:18, 5:20, 5:27, 5:16, 5:24.
As bad as my calf is feeling right now I will probably be taking several days off so I can get it feeling good again before SGM.
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