The run up to marathons is not always smooth. As always, come and share your own weekend exploits below the line, from triumphant PBs to woeful hobbles, and advice on calf issues ...
Well, if that was a test for London Marathon I think I got a D-minus. Though possibly some marks for effort. Yesterday I ran the Wokingham half marathon - or more accurately, ran about 1.75 miles of it. Tightness in my calf - which annoyingly has been absolutely fine for the last few weeks - suddenly turned into cramp, with the threat of something worse. When you realise you are actually attempting to run sideways in order to stretch it a bit, things are not going well.
Obviously at this point I stopped, and probably should have limped back to the start. But I’ve never DNF-ed in a race and I’m nothing if not stubborn, so after stretching a bit, I jogged the rest (though only after I felt it was coping well enough not to be doing myself a proper injury - I’m not that stubborn). So, massages galore and calf stretches on every step for me, and fingers firmly crossed that it’s not going to completely scupper my marathon plans.
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