Injuries preventing play...

[ktsok]

The plan was to run the third run of the Magic 10, the 5k, on Saturday morning at Parkrun. But childcare fell through and at 9 years old he is a little too young to be left either at home or on a park bench. Running together would be torturous for both of us. Plus I was fairly certain that my long distance relationship was coming to an end, so my mojo was absent.

We had planned to meet friends at the climbing wall, then come back to mine for a sleepover. I was a struggling a bit, but my lovely climbing partner drove a two hour round trip to bring me an emergency roll up, which cheered me up. We climbed for a couple of hours, on some hard routes. There was one particular move where I slung my left leg over a large volume and engaged my calf muscle and heel to pull my whole body weight up and onto the block. It felt strenuous at the time, but it was only the next morning when my foot touched the ground that I realised I had strained the muscle. A compression sleeve helped me get through the day, and sleep, repeat, but I was out of action for the week.

It felt better today, so I took as gentle a run as I could around the local tracks, ready to stop if it hurt. Thankfully, it didn’t. A little dull ache now when I stretch but nothing out of the ordinary.

It was good to get out again. Despite doing the 5k, I don’t know if the 10k plan is back on track but it felt good to be able to gently plod along the road again. My heart is in the same place; plodding along.

[PaulS83]

Sorry to read all this. Mainly the calf, because that means you're twinning with me. And twinning with me certainly ain't winning.

And the other bits. Can feel it coming through. You can stealthily cover a lot of ground plodding, just focussing on the far off scenery and then snap back to the near distance and suddenly wonder how you got so far, so quick.

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Ouch, glad the pain is now an ache. Never knock 5k it's a run in a good time not a plod. I 7sed to do a lot of climbing with my daughter when she was at school - did great things for her confidence. Happy running happy climbing

[Jell6 Graduate10]

Just do what you can, the longer runs will wait.

I hope everything else is on track.

From your posts it sounds like you have lovely friends and family, so lean on them if needed.

😘

[Katnap Graduate10]

Leave it parked for now. Are you still able to do some short runs?

[ktsok in reply to Katnap]

Yes, I’m letting the schedule slip and will just plod along for a couple of runs to get a sense of how it’s doing. Feels ok for now🤞

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You know you can do that 10k aim high you'll get it!!!👍