1095miles – running blog

Three days since the Brighton Marathon and I thought I’d got away with the pain issue – at least until about 3am this morning I did.

In the two days since the race, I’ve been out, ran both days to keep up my three-mile-a-day streak, had a sports massage, done lots of stretching and icing and not been in too much trouble.

But when I woke up in the early hours, the insides of my calves felt like they were on fire, screaming to cool down. I tried rubbing some freeze gel into them but that didn’t work and an ice pack only had temporary effect until a double dose of ibuprofen kicked in at around 5am. Cue me not going for an early morning run.

I finally went out about an hour ago, I could still do a decent pace but post run, the fire’s come back… back to the freezer I go. Why did no one mention the pain gets worse?

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Miles today: 3
Target: 642
Miles to date: 856.37

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