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@Dammit - How are the legs?

I might just go and see a physio and ask them to tell me what to do. Ain't nobody got time for reading books. I ran 10k yesterday with no pain but my ankle has a thick blue stripe down the middle so I should probably take it easy.

@Dammit - How are the legs?

Legs are fine again, back of right heal is very painful, but that's a (maybe?) fascia thing and the only thing that fixes it is not to run.

back of right heal is very painful

on the sole of the foot, or towards the Achilles/calf?

Very back of the heal, just under (assumption!) where the achilles anchors to the foot.

In other marathon related news I have food poisoning today from the burger I ate last night and have been making high-speed forays to the Reading Room since 2am this morning.

I'm going to smash it on Saturday.

#raceweight

Sounds like Insertional Achillies injury. Flat eccentric heel drops seems to have sorted mine out:
http://www.runningwritings.com/2011/09/injury-series-flat-eccentric-heel-drops.html?m=1

That's really interesting - thanks, it does sound like exactly what I have.

Thanks for link, I have a pain that seems about this point.

sounds like leg rot, chop it off

Could do, I think it's the week after the Bournemouth half (and full) which my gf had an eye on. I'm waiting to see how my ankle holds up before signing up for anything though. Just come back from a week of rest in SW France and ran at lunch today. 5k without issue.

Heel drops definitely the way to go for that injury, and I'd add the benefit of stretching the soleus, i.e. lower calf muscle. This will alleviate tension from the thickened achilles tendon in the immediate term, and is a good maintenance exercise to help stave it off in future. I've not long got over a dodgy achilles myself, which was showing up in the area described.

A low-key 5k in Battersea Park this evening. Not expecting much what with it being windy as a windy thing, and still suffering low-level headaches from having a wisdom tooth extracted over a week ago. Ugh!

...Cripes, so much for all the sandbagging. I've just run a 5k road PB! (I think.) 16:04 by my watch which would be a 2 second PB, so just awaiting official results. The wind was weird, could feel it was windy but never really felt it was slowing me down. Not sure about position in the race, 10-15 maybe, but second scorer for the club which I'm also pleased with. The winner was sub-15.

I've run sub-16 on the track a few times but I've got proper mojo on now to try and do it in a road race. Maybe having a couple of teeth out the week before and getting spaced out on cocodamol is the way to deal with the pain of a 5k...

16 min 5 fucking get in. Powee

+1 quality fast time, 5.20 per mile x 3.1 dreamland for many!

Hope @Dammit you're past worst of dodgy burger & foot pain eases for weekend.

Makes up for Monday... :) Congratulations. Monday at Battersea park?

I've heard tramadol is the go to drug for sporting pain relief?

Ibuprofen has made my achilles much more manageable.

I could possibly run the first km with you then I'd be <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Cheers all!

Monday might be a bit soon, will probably save next week's race mojo for the 3,000m on Thursday. But July or August fixtures are now in the diary, definite possibilities.

Wow, that is speedy mcquick! Well done!

Marathon today, still have not recovered from food poisoning. Going to be interesting.

OK, bib number-check, timing chip- check, diarrhoea - check, new shoes- check, no sleep- check.

Smash the first half then jog it in?

Smash the first half then jog it in?

Spot on, half way being 20 miles yeah.

Else 140bpm monotony but on no sleep I can't promise you'll make it past any park benches on route...

Bought some bum-cork pills, fingers crossed.

Two laps- second longer than first which feels wrong.