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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?