Well I can at least today call myself a runner again. It was 7 degrees
outside and the fog was so heavy you couldn't see 6 feet in front of
you. I ran 8.1 miles at an overall 6:56 pace in 56:16 minutes. My
achilles felt fine in the run and really didn't experience any pain, but
I do have a little soreness and crackling of the tendon now. I
think maybe for the first run back I should have run a little less, but
I really wanted to test it out. The first mile I kept it slow at 7:20
pace and felt like I really didn't push anything hard on the achilles.
The fastest mile I ran was 6:41 and that was because I had a meeting I
needed to be at (that I forgot about at work) so I had to rush back home
the last mile just so I could prepare for the meeting.
Tomorrow I think I will run 4 miles on the treadmill and then workout on
the arc trainer at the gym. I don't want to go full blown back to where
I was running before, but gradually work back into some type of training.
I do feel if I take it easy the next couple days then my progress by
Monday should be great. Any suggestions on what I should run the next
couple of days? Like I said I was thinking 4-6 miles tomorrow and then
Saturday 6 miles. Sunday rest, Monday try 6 -8 miles. I might decide to do all these runs on the treadmill since it's a softer surface.
Del Sol Relay, I don't know yet. I don't know if the achilles will handle going all out. By Monday I should have a good idea if its possible. I think my achilles right now could handle the three fast legs, but Monday will be a better evaluation. Like I said during the run today everything went well, but I could have dropped my pace a little bit coming back from the sore achilles. I'll update my blog today to let you know the progress of how the achilles feels the rest of the day. Update.
Achilles is still sore, I'm going to have acupuncture done tomorrow on the tendon just to see if that will help. At least I know by giving my leg rest it heals so that should give me time to be ready for Del Sol relay. I might just crosstrain tomorrow. The 8 miles felt really easy with no fitness issues at all.
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