Well!!! I learned something new! Ankle socks are bad for my shoes, and thus, both rub against my Achilles heel!
I managed to get through my 7-min warmup walk, when I stopped to redo my shoes and socks, as I could feel something rubbing!
I had put on my new pair of double-skinned running socks, one of a set of three given as presents also to my running husband and son!
Redoing my laces and socks, which had slipped into the shoe, and I could see I had already rubbed my skin into a reddish, wound-looking spot! I thought I could fix this with adjusting the shoe laces and I ran another few minutes, when I realised it now really hurt, and looking down, I could see my brilliant new socks had slipped again below the heel again, and my fabulous wide-toe box road shoes (which have never given me any trouble), where now definitely rubbing against my Achilles tendon.
Rather than continuing on, I thought it better to turn around, and I jogged all the way back home, and jogging on the balls of my feet also helped to keep the pressure off my Achilles area.
It was good that I did, as once home it had broken skin and I fixed it up with a plaster. Considering the mini run as a warmup, and feeling I needed to do a bit more than this mini-run, I then jumped barefoot on my indoor rowing machine, and after that did my yoga.
So all’s well that ends well.
But I have to now wait until skin has healed before heading out there again for my full NRC #1 run! NRC gave me a tick anyway, but I only got through 1/3 of the run, so will do this one again!
So this was my interrupted first run of NRC’s 10k plan. And “Booo” to ankle socks!
Happy running!