.... trumps week 6 of Houston Marathon training.
I'm headed out of town for the weekend and am not packing the running stuff. I started the week following week 6 of my Houston marathon training plan. Earlier this week I thought I'd do some preventive maintenance as both my Achilles tendons were somewhat tender but not very painful. I've been down that road before and normally just run until I wake up one morning and walking is unbearable. I'm then out for at least 6 months battling Achilles tendonitis. I went to a chiropractor Tuesday with the intention of getting custom orthotics to hopefully address whatever is causing the Achilles pain. I found out that not only my calves were tight (which I pretty much knew) but the muscles/tendons whatever along the bottom of my feet were tight as well. So I got electric stim and ultrasound twice this week as well as deep tissue massage. I'm hurting more now than before I went in for the maintenance. It is a muscle soreness and not injury type pain but pain nonetheless.
My foot test did reveal that orthotics should help balance my feet pressure to where it should be which should help keep me less tight. So I should have custom orthotics sometime next week.
Even with the 2 chiro visits and a deep tissue massage from Ute Wednesday evening, I did manage to get in my first 3 scheduled workouts this week and part of the 4th last night. I stopped at 4.5 miles as it was too dark. I'll resume running Monday.
For those training in the Houston area, this should be the best weather of the season Saturday and Sunday mornings.
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