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4 years ago, Eagleman, perfect taper, everything great, I'm out on a "loosen up" run the day before and all of a sudden it feels like someone shoots me/stabs me extremely deep in my calf. Deep as in maybe my soleus, not my gastroc, but maybe my gastroc, I'm no physiologist. My wife is a PT and works on it for hours that night, I do the race and hobble the run, but quite honestly in not that much pain, just a little bit of "hurt". Took maybe a couple weeks (maybe less) off and had no problems the rest of the year in various short course stuff, another half and an IM.
Fast forward four years of absolutely zero problems then out of the blue this fall, I'm on what was going to be a 8 mile run and at around 3 miles, same thing...ice pick in the calf. I try to run through it with stretching and rubbing but "no go" and I walk back home. The next couple days are so painful, I can barely walk. Wait a few weeks everything back to "normal" have a couple runs of various lengths no problems. Then last week, near the end of a run, I get a little twinge but finish the run. Sore but not the "oh my god, someone is killing me by shooting me in the calf until I succomb to insanity" pain of the other incidents. I try to run the next day though and the pain is almost instantaneous, so I stop and call it a day. I've been off for a week and had my wife work on it every night with deep tissue massage & tons of stretching. Just got back from my attempt at a lunch-time run and wham! at around one-mile same thing happens.
Again, this is really deep in my calf, maybe my soleus, and kind of located more to the outside so that if you "dig into" my leg from the outside between my gastroc and soleus you can get to the spot (and make me cry). Going straight at it through my gastroc from the back gets a similar teary-eyed response, but not as intense. It's only about an inch or so below the outside bony part of my knee. I'm reasonably flexible, have absolutely zero problems with it on the bike (I could go ride right now and road into work this AM), run in a POSE-style way of landing pretty much mid to fore-foot (and have for the last 2+ years).
My next planned step is to try A.R.T. unless someone has a better idea? I also just came off of my "off-season" of September-October and have not done anything too terribly intense since August and would like to start legitimate training again for IMOZ in April.
Thoughts/advice PLEASE!!
Thanks!
Don
4 years ago, Eagleman, perfect taper, everything great, I'm out on a "loosen up" run the day before and all of a sudden it feels like someone shoots me/stabs me extremely deep in my calf. Deep as in maybe my soleus, not my gastroc, but maybe my gastroc, I'm no physiologist. My wife is a PT and works on it for hours that night, I do the race and hobble the run, but quite honestly in not that much pain, just a little bit of "hurt". Took maybe a couple weeks (maybe less) off and had no problems the rest of the year in various short course stuff, another half and an IM.
Fast forward four years of absolutely zero problems then out of the blue this fall, I'm on what was going to be a 8 mile run and at around 3 miles, same thing...ice pick in the calf. I try to run through it with stretching and rubbing but "no go" and I walk back home. The next couple days are so painful, I can barely walk. Wait a few weeks everything back to "normal" have a couple runs of various lengths no problems. Then last week, near the end of a run, I get a little twinge but finish the run. Sore but not the "oh my god, someone is killing me by shooting me in the calf until I succomb to insanity" pain of the other incidents. I try to run the next day though and the pain is almost instantaneous, so I stop and call it a day. I've been off for a week and had my wife work on it every night with deep tissue massage & tons of stretching. Just got back from my attempt at a lunch-time run and wham! at around one-mile same thing happens.
Again, this is really deep in my calf, maybe my soleus, and kind of located more to the outside so that if you "dig into" my leg from the outside between my gastroc and soleus you can get to the spot (and make me cry). Going straight at it through my gastroc from the back gets a similar teary-eyed response, but not as intense. It's only about an inch or so below the outside bony part of my knee. I'm reasonably flexible, have absolutely zero problems with it on the bike (I could go ride right now and road into work this AM), run in a POSE-style way of landing pretty much mid to fore-foot (and have for the last 2+ years).
My next planned step is to try A.R.T. unless someone has a better idea? I also just came off of my "off-season" of September-October and have not done anything too terribly intense since August and would like to start legitimate training again for IMOZ in April.
Thoughts/advice PLEASE!!
Thanks!
Don