running for my mind

50 minute walk around the neighborhood with Grey

5 - 7:53

Easy on the parkway. My right calf was slightly tight the entire run. Considering running a 5k on Saturday. I have not run 5k pace in a while so I am going to test the legs a bit tomorrow and see how they respond.

10 - 7:14

Had a little fartlek workout planned to test out the calf and see how it responded to some faster turnover. Decent effort at 30sec, 1 min, 2 min, 1, 30, 30, 1, 2. My right calf has seemed a little tight the last couple of runs. It was about the same today and didn't seem to be any worse with the faster turnover. 

Calf tightened up and was a little sore after the session for about 2 miles easy. Then I tossed in 6 strides of 80 steps and then one easy mile to finish at 10. Calf didn't hurt during the strides and maybe even loosend up a little bit from this quick turnover. 

Overall, I felt slow(er) and don't know about the 5k on Saturday. It has been 7 weeks since I have done a quick workout so I know I am slower than I was when I was running 3 miles sub-6 once a week with Josh and Adam.

7 - 7:43

I have some odd niggles right now that I have never experienced nor have I a clue on how to remedy. 

I guess I will just keep on keeping on.

10 - 7:11

Met JP and Scott at HHS and ran up through the U over to the Avenues and back.

Light pain with every step, but nothing impeding. Odd.

1 mile in and I pulled the plug. It is more difficult to know that you should stop and actually listen to your body. Going to take a couple days off and see if I can get to the bottom of this. Looking like it could be a little overuse injury that can be caused by a few different factors.

There are these shoes called Altras (a gift) that I am blaming at least part of it on. ;)

PT stretching and ice.

Feeling a lot less tender in the peroneal tendon. Still sore, but much better than yesterday.

Might contemplate testing a mile or two on Monday.