Notes
Injury Recovery Run #1
Severely Strained/Slightly torn Left Gastroc (pain along lateral side of lower leg). Fr last Mon thru Wed could not walk (could not load foot - walked like I was in a boot). Began to walk & fast walk Thur/Fri/Sat. On Sat pain subsided & during a fast walk attempted to "lightly jog" (11 min pace) & was extremely conservative jogging 8-10 steps walking 16 steps. On the 40th "step" felt severe pain again & had to stop *could not dorsiflex foot). After ~5 min resumed walk. Pain felt like someone hit my in calf w/baseball bat, was able to fast walk Sun/Mon with pain subsiding ea day (felt like someone hit me w/a hammer on Sun, felt like someone hit me w/balpeen hammer on Mon). Both days noticed the pain subsided w/fast walk - ea day went 3.75 mi & able to walk at 12:35 pace over final 1.75 mi.
Today fast walked 3.75 mi at 13min pace (12:10 over final 3/4 mi). Did some drills including running butt kicks & did not feel pain. So attempted this "jog" of 8 x 1:00 (walked about 45 sec in between). No "re-injury" pain & calf held up (no increase in pain after). May be on road back but felt so weak on the first 3 x 1:00 segments.