Well, it finally hit me. I've been injury free for some time now. I think my last running injury came a few years ago when I was struggling through plantar fasciitis. It started with a little soreness in my heel, achilles area. I ran with it and hoped it would go away. I lingered for about 2 weeks or so, but then this last Saturday after about 3.5 miles, I had to call Violi to come pick me up. After some minor research, it looks to be achilles tendonitis. Hopefully a couple weeks of rest will do it good. I hope to do swimming/cross training during that time to keep up the cardio aspect of the training. Lots of stretches should help as well, and with a good warm-up I should be able to run on it when it doesn't hurt any more.
One cause that was listed on some of the sites I visited was a sudden increase of hill work along with poor stretching or sprinting. At first I blamed my interval training, thinking that I was pushing myself too much, but I think I probably exacerbated a slight problem by running in Indiana last week. French Lick had some beautiful roads to run on, but it is super hilly. Now that I think about it, that was about the time I started noticing the problem.
I still hope to run in the 10k on June 14th, though I'm not sure I'll go for the personal best on that day, it will depend on my injury progress. This injury might also help me to focus more on what I'm eating.
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