well, this is good!

[seventhe]

So I injured my left calf (inner lower leg and inner ankle area, to be both specific and general) while training for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon. I realized sometime the week of 25 April; the week of 3 May I made the decision to stop training in order to make it to the Half. I ran twice after that decision: once on 8 May when I raced a 5K, and once on 15 May when I ran the actual half. Since then, I haven't run at all. Not only have I been too busy with life and kittens, but I also really just wanted to heal up whatever had hurt itself during my training.

This week Tuesday I decided to go out for a nice easy run to get back into things. And I could immediately feel the injury. I ran ~3 miles, and it was brutal for a lot of reasons - heat, allergies, asthma - but underneath all of it was the growing concern that this injury hasn't gone away. That's 6 weeks off of training, and almost 4 off of running entirely. That's enough that I got worries about it. So today I went to my doctor to talk about it.

He thinks I might have a stress fracture! Or tendonitis. Or a stress fracture with tendonitis.

I had to go get x-rays! That was fun. And expensive. :/

I am on anti-inflammatory drugs! For at least a month if not two! I can't drink on them! Balls.

I will seriously kick my own ass if I ran a half marathon on a stress fracture without knowing. I will kick my own ass with my good leg.

GDI.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

:( Be careful yo!

[whitemage]

<3

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN'T DRINK NOW??!!?!

THIS IS HORRIBLE

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I HOPE YOU'RE NOT IN MANSFIELD

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

I'M JUST GONNA HAVE TO DRINK ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US I GUESS *CONUNDRA EVERYWHERE*

YOU CAN AT LEAST DOPE UP ON THE PAINKILLERS HAHA

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

NO CONUNDRA IN MY NEW CAR GOD DAMMIT!!!!

AND YEAH... I'LL LEARN MORE ON MONDAY SO HOPEFULLY IT ISN'T LIKE TOTAL ABSTINENCE MONTH... I MIGHT RATHER HAVE A STRESS FRACTURE

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

RIGHT? I WOULD ALMOST SAY JUST MAN UP AND START CHUGGING HAHAHA

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

STRESS FRACTURE IN MY LEG FROM RUNNING VS STRESS FRACTURE IN MY BRAIN FROM NO BEER. HMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[safety-caesars.livejournal.com]

BRAINS ARE MORE IMPORTANT, RIGHT? LEGS CAN BE EASILY REPLACED.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

IT'S BEER AND WHEEL TIME BABY

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Ouch. Very very ouch. I hope you heal up soon.