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Having just about recovered from a snapped Achilles I’d suggest a trip to A&E and ask for a scan, not something to mess around with.
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Could do with more detail - does it feel like your tendon is grinding when you move your foot? Does it seem to make noises like your tendon has rusted? Can you feel it 'grinding'. If you think it's an overuse injury, it's normally because it's an overuse injury :)
"I rode across a country recently and my tendons are a bit graunchy.. what say you, doc?"
It'll go away. If it's persistent you can do what I did and go midfoot, but an intermediate solution is to move cleats further back to reduce the 'ankling' movement in your pedal stroke (and you may need to drop the saddle too).
If you search this forum I've probably talked about doing very slow calf raises and lowers as a means to help fix tendonitis (something about lining up the tendon fibres, you'd need to google it)
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Not sure where's the right place to ask this so I'll try here - just took the fixed gear for a 4 day 100km/day tour with relatively gentle gradients all told (approx 4-500m of climbing per day). Developed an injury in my right Achilles tendon after the second day; feels like an overuse thing which I'm guessing is either from grinding up hills or spinning down them at far quicker RPMs than I'm generally used to. Last time I got this was when I cycled to Paris on the fixed.
Anyone has any guesses as to what sort of injury this is, what could be causing it and what I can do to prevent it?