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Went for the first run in two years a couple of days ago. Just a lap of a local park to test the waters. Needless to say, it's back to square one, sort of.
My calf muscles still hurt – in fact, they're noticeably more painful after two days, mainly the smaller muscle around the achilles – so I'm wondering if going for another light run might help or make things worse...
Planning on doing a 4 mile run/jog over the weekend so want to be ready for that but not in loads of pain, either.
Also, the fact I'm running in minimal shoes doesn't help. Fore/midfoot running strains the achilles more and it's easy to over-do it.
It's a big difference from 2-3 years ago when I could happily bang out 18km with steep stuff on a whim. Not really looking to get back in to that but would like to maintain a baseline for cardio.