Eric Nelson's Running Blog

Today me, Spencer, Hayden, and Trey went and did a workout on the track at Logan. We started off with a mile warmup then put on our spikes for the workout (a decision I would regret later in the week). The workout was 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 1200, 800, 400 with a 400 recovery between each one. I tried to stay at an uncomfortable pace consistently throughout the whole workout, which was hard because I didn't have my watch with me. Trey was there also, so that helped to push me a bit. When we finished we did a couple of laps bearfoot and finished at 7 miles. By the end my left calf killed and I rolled it out when I got home.

Today was suppose to be an 8 mile progression run. It was suppose to start out at 6:45 pace and get 15 seconds faster each mile ending with a 5:00. There was no possible way for me to accomplish that so I was going to do the same thing except a minute slower, starting out at 7:45 and ending with 6:00. I started out at the easy 7:45 pace and my ankles and knees really, really hurt but the pain went away after a quarter mile. My left calf was still pretty sore and it just got worse as I ran. At mile 2 I stopped by my house and stretched/rolled it to see if it would do anything. I started off again and it felt better at first but quickly got bad again. It got so bad that I really couldn't run anymore without it hurting really bad so I had to just walk home.
 

Today I just planned on doing a short easy run because of my calf. I started off and it was just a little sore, but like yesterday, it just got worse as I went on. My right ankle also started hurting. It got to the point where my calf hurt too  much to run so I just stopped and walked home again. I didn't just want to do nothing so I rode my went and rode my bike. It didn't really hurt my calf or my ankle so I went 6 miles at a pace that burned my quads. Later in the evening my ankle started hurting and it was hard to walk on.

Today I didn't run at all because my right ankle still really hurt. I think that it is because when I ran the past days I was limping on it and putting more pressure on it because my left calf was hurting. It hurt walking from class to class during school and I tried to stay off of it as much as possible. Track started today and I have the 5th hour class. While everyone was out running I went in and talked to Marcus our athletic trainer. He made me put my legs in tall tub of cold water and ice that had a pump in it that turned the water round like a whirlpool for 20 minutes. It was excruciatingly cold at the beginning but my legs eventually got numb. When I got out it felt like it had helped my calf a lot but not so much my ankle. Depending on how it is tomorrow I will probably have to take the weekend off in order for it to heal.

I just wish that it had occured to me on monday that running 6 miles in spikes that I am not use to may not be the best of ideas.

Still not running today because of my ankle. Today at practice I just did a lot of core while everyone else did a hard workout. It feels a lot better than yesterday and it should be all the way better before monday at most.