A Passion for Running

Sunday’s run was a train wreck and I am not completely sure what happened.

I started out slow but was immediately struck with a dull but very deep pain on the side of my leg and in the tendon area sort of where the calves get connected to the knee. At first, I thought it was just a little bit of arthritic creakiness so I decided to run it off slowly before ramping up the pace for what was supposed to be a hard effort.

But 8 minutes in and it wasn’t getting any better. It hurt like a S.O.B.

I gave it another two minutes and then tried to walk it off. No dice. It still hurt so I jogged back home as slow as I could.

And the dang thing bugged me walking around all last night. I took some Ibuprofen and it seems better this morning but I can’t be certain.

Andrew’s rules say I should be taking today off but I’m still hopeful that yesterday was just a freak thing and I won’t have to. I have two possible causes in mind: 1) The barometric pressure was all over the map yesterday and that always bugs me in strange, painful ways. 2) I twisted my leg kinda funny on Saturday when I slipped on some ice.

Either way, I hate like heck skipping runs - especially long runs which is what’s on tap for today. I’m thinking I’ll implement the same plan I used last Monday unless coach tells me to give my head a shake and not run.