So I recently went to an orthopedist to talk about my shin splints he basically told me everything I already knew (no hills, run on soft surface, warm-up, stretch, etc.). My shins have been feeling better and today they didn't really hurt. However, now my achilles tendon and the lower calf/gastrocnemius has been tight/sore and today it totally fucked up my run. We were supposed to do 4 toploops at 10:00-9:50-9:30-9:20. The first one was 9:40 which i stayed up for, the second one I fell off a little and hit around 19:45-20:00. The third one my achilles tightened up and i did like a friggin 11:3x-4x. Coach says it's because I ran the 5k but I don't think so because I didn't feel it during the 5k, only the few days after but I still did the tempo run on Monday. I can't fucking stand how whenever it seems like I'm making an even the slightest improvement, I take a huge step back. This has happened multiple times in both cross country and winter track. Fuck it. I'll take all of spring track to come back if I have to. I'm putting in 50-70 miles per week over the summer if I have to.
Monday's tempo run was on the track. We were supposed to do 3x1600 at 6 minute pace and 2x800 at 3 minute pace. I hit like 5:58 for the first 1600, 6:15-6:18 for the second one and took a 800m break. I jumped on for the second 800m of the last 1600 and hit 2:58. I stayed up for both 800m's.
I started taking Endurox to help recover better. I'm thinking of maybe getting a heating pad to warm my legs up before practice. Once I recover, I'm doing the morning runs at 6:30.
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