#STWM Over training.

I have been saying this for a while that I have been running for a while now and I was lucky to not catch any injury. I guess that is really a false statement, there were tell tell signs and I should have backed OFF. I knew all along that this happens and have seen so many runners go through this and yet ignored that and kept pushing and trying to improves times , run longer and push harder on hills. My calf muscle which was bothering for a about 2 weeks finally decided to raise a red flag. I was limping for a week and yet ran 18K and tried to run today. Surprisingly running still is more comfortable than walking. I guess it was just blood flow which masked the pain and made it worse every time I stopped today. 

I did visit a physio yesterday who did a acupuncture and helped a bit, but it was bad again today morning. With a race planned for this Sunday which is not insignificant distance. I decided to pull the plug on training and rest a bit. I also was icing my calf muscle for last few days but it was too messy to move with the ice pack around me. Found this cool and fancy ice pack in running room and it is really great. It does not use water it has gel which soaks water and freezes. It has sleeve that compresses and holds the ice pack in right spot. This is really cool thing that they make. 


I did run today but was less than 4K in total and not worth mentioning too. 

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