Week 3 - Thursday run.

3 miles, baylands park, May 20 2010.

This is the first 3 mile weekday run.
My Achilles have started to hurt bad.

Immediately after the warmup run I felt like kicking off my shoes. Very uncomfortable tight feeling in my feet. I just loosened them and went ahead with the initial stretches.

I started the run slow and easy and not too far into the run like 0.5 miles or so. My left achilles started to hurt. I continued to run anyways. Wasnt too bad. I stopped at the 1.5 water fountain to stretch a bit and then continued at regular pace, my left achilles still hurting. Slowly there also started to develop some pain in my right arch. And then it moved to the right achilles. By the time I finished the run, both my achilles were hurting fairly bad. I could complete the run, didnt need to walk any stretch.

Once I started the stretching the pain started to coming down legs got better.
I spoke to Madhavi and she has mailed the coaches for suggestions on what to do. I will need to talk to the coaches before I run on Sat - 4 miles! phew...

For today and tomorrow I have to stretch the calves and achilles as much as I can.

I caught myself cursing the moment when we both decided to start running and training for a half marathon. The pain is starting to show. I hope it alleviates before I start cribbing more. I have to complete this July 25 run in any case.