after the excitement of visiting the physio last week and being pepped up with the work he did on my calf and Achilles - then advice on the right kind of exercise, i thought i was well back on the road to running again.
but that's simply .. not .. happened.
i religiously (alright, i missed a couple) followed the regimen of four to five sessions of 30-40 reps. [it was 'eccentric' stretching, by the way, not 'cyclic' as i'd written before.] but after a day of two, the load on my already tight (from the physio workout) calf was starting to tell. i was stiff all the time - not just after getting up in the morning, and i could tell that it was exacerbating the Achilles pain. so around about Tuesday, I decided to stop the exercises for a while and let my calf muscles recover fully. in the meantime, i've been icing it in the evening and taking a regular top-up of ibuprofen to hopefully work-out some of the inflammation. don't know what the effect of all this is just yet, but i have the feeling that it's getting - very slowly - better.
Zemanta just threw this item up as relevant to my post. looks kinda helpful - can't hurt.
i've decided that all this inactivity, while frustrating because i can't run (my, by far, far, far favourite form of exercise), is no good. no news there obviously. but i think it's starting to affect my sleep (currently quite restless) and definitely affecting my waistline. gonna work out a plan for upper-body strengthening and some sessions on the rowing machine - which shouldn't really stress the Achilles too much. Plus there's a good feature on core-strength exercises in runnersworld this month that i'll probably borrow from too. without a plan - or at least a list to tick off - i don't have the motivation to do this sort of workout - versus the pure enjoyment that motivates me to go running.
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