Well, after doing my 4.25 yesterday afternoon, I needed another 9 today. So I set off this morning to do a lap around Town Lake, from MoPac to the dam (10.1 miles). That didn’t happen. Instead, I ran from the Riverside bridge to about halfway between I-35 and the dam. My calves had been bugging me for most of the time, but when I got about 3 miles into the run, they just started tightening up into hard little rocks. I pretty much walked from there on back to the car around the lake, for 6.4 miles total. I could have ran some on the way back, and I did run a little, but I figure that its better to take it easy and be stronger on Tuesday then to go crazy today.

I know that I hurt my calves with bad running form that wasn’t much of an issue when I was slower. And they’re feeling better while I’m running now that my form has been corrected. But they’re still pretty painful. I think I’m going to try and schedule a massage for some point this week, to see if that will take care of the problem. Until then, I’ll use lots of stretching and try to run it out.

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