My achilles can handle the stress of running every other day. As I told Nate, “I can get somewhere on every other day”. (said with a huge grin on my face) (vs. my previous weeks where there where sporadic test runs of less than 8 miles) SO EXCITED to be healing! But, as Steve warns,…
The capitalization of the subject represents my absolute JOY behind today’s workout. But, before we get to that, let’s back up a few days. I did a 7.5 mile run late last week where tightness crept into the Achilles at 4.5 miles. The pain didn’t worsen, so I kept running, gauging the tightness/pain level the…
Tuesday I was able to run 8 miles. Tuesday night the achilles was a little sore, so Wednesday over lunch I hit up the elliptical machine (for 90 minutes, yikes). Tonight I’ll get in an easy bike as well, just trying to keep the training hours up. Walking around today it feels better, but I’d…
Without any pain or burning sensation. I have the biggest internal grin on (trying to hide my giddiness from my coworkers :))!! Went to the PT afterwards for the 2nd steroid patch. Plan is to have a third sometime later this week. (Apparently 8-10 is the equivalent to a cortisone injection… yikes… glad my body…
I honestly think I needed this break. Don’t get me wrong. I was loving what I was doing – reaching higher weekly mileage totals than I ever had before, working harder than I thought possible, etc. My greatest joy now is beating my body into oblivion. On the other hand, though, I was struggling a…
Anyone know how to treat this QUICKLY? It came on Thursday after a hard/long Wednesday evening run. I’ve never had Achilles trouble before, so I’m a little perplexed that it came on so quickly and has been so bad. Generally it feels bruised/tight when walking around. Running on it Thursday it had a burning sensation….