28-07-2015, 11:50 PM
Went for a short, light trial run this morning to see how the heel would hold up. It's been 6 days without running and with the race coming up in 3 weeks wanted to assess whether I'm OK to recommence training. I've had no pain at all in the heel for a few days, have no trouble at all doing heel drops.
I did a longish warmup including massaging the achilles before starting. The pain returned quite quickly and slowly got worse over the first KM. I stopped for a minute and adjusted my lacing to a heel lock which seemed to help. The pain subsided a little and didn't get any worse for the next few KM. I stopped after 3.5-4km as it was only a trial run.
Now that I've cooled down I can still feel some soreness at the achilles insertion point, maybe a 2-3 out of 10. I will do the heel lock lacing again and attempt the 5x2km tomorrow, but won't continue if the pain gets beyond a 5-6 out of 10.
I did a longish warmup including massaging the achilles before starting. The pain returned quite quickly and slowly got worse over the first KM. I stopped for a minute and adjusted my lacing to a heel lock which seemed to help. The pain subsided a little and didn't get any worse for the next few KM. I stopped after 3.5-4km as it was only a trial run.
Now that I've cooled down I can still feel some soreness at the achilles insertion point, maybe a 2-3 out of 10. I will do the heel lock lacing again and attempt the 5x2km tomorrow, but won't continue if the pain gets beyond a 5-6 out of 10.