Monday: 4.4 miles (6:37); Also got some Graston treatment. The lateral side of my heel was hurting a ton. Very sharp, stabbing pain.
Tuesday: 4 miles; 6 miles
Wednesday: 4.6 miles (6:47); 4.5 miles (7:11)
Thursday: 3.4 miles (6:49); 7.5 miles (6:34)
Friday: 3.7 miles (6:59); 4.9 miles (7:27); Got some more Graston today. Didn't really hurt at all
Saturday: 8.3 miles with 10k race. I did 2.1 miles warm-up and then the 10k. My time was 34 something but I feel like the course was short because it seemed like I was running over 6:00 pace the second half. Took it very easy and won by a little over eight minutes. No achilles/heel pain
Sunday: 8 miles (7:02)
Week Total= 59.3 miles. Achilles/heel is much better this week. The last time I felt some pain was the last couple of miles on my 2nd run Tuesday. I don't know how things turned around so quickly? Graston? Night splint? Cissus supplement? The plan is now to spend a few weeks slowly adding some hard workouts and hopefully be in my pre-injury shape in about six weeks. I signed up for the Houston Marathon, so right now, I have my sights set on that one.
Nice to run 34 mins for a 10K and win by over a mile!
ReplyDeleteHouston seems like a good choice - will give you time to get healed up, put in a true buildup w/out rushing it... and who knows, maybe the OTQ window will be open by then!