I did a 6.5km walk at the You Yangs on Sunday and didn't get so much as a peep out of either achilles. Progress. Yay!
But on Monday I was walking around the office and feeling an unfamiliar sensation - muscle pain. What's this? Sore muscles from a wee little walk in the bush? Oh dear, serious loss of fitness and conditioning. Makes it so much harder to get started when you know how far back you've slid! But I must focus on the forward bits 'cos I will be fit and fab by the end of the year. Yay!
I went and saw the sports doc last week and he's happy with the results. Now I have to get an eccentric stretching program, and not the unusual kind. So I called my Osteopath and she is going to show me what to do on Saturday. If I'm still in some pain when I get back from Korea, he'll consider a plasma injection in the left one. But it really is feeling so much these days. Maybe it's the rest, maybe it's the terror of witnessing the right one get it good from a needle that's had a placebo effect!
I'm still very tight and sore in my soleus and calf and if I dare probe a little further, all the way up my ITB and into my lower back. Hopefully the Osteo will sort me out. As a result, I haven't started running yet but am sensibly consoling myself with chocolate.
I am going to Korea in 9 days time, so I figure I won't start running until I get back. I promise I will do my eccentric exercises twice a day as recommended every day while I'm away.
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