Continuing to experience *very* mild shin pain whenever I actually run. No other time -- at rest, fast walking, lifting, etc. I'm all fine.
And -- dang it -- when I press on the bone, too.
Likely enough that it's a micro-fracture that I need to take it easy on the impact for at least 2 weeks.
Irritating. But at least my cardio conditioning is limited enough that I can hit Zone 2 with fast walking...
2 days later pain has completely resolved but I'm still gonna take it easy
When I go out later today my plan is 20+ minutes and see how high I can get my heart rate just with continuous walking
Now that I know how *little* work I can do and still get cardio improvements running is actually... fun???
Def feeling the DOMS today, but not the shin pain, which is a good sign that I can, in fact, get sufficient training volume to do *something* even without hoppin' around.
Attempted an ~hour long training walk up in the hills near my house today.
I did ultimately get almost 45 minutes of walking in but had to turn around early because it's so dang muddy out today.
Ankles are still a *touch* sore today. It doesn't feel like injury-pain, more like used-the-muscles-in-a-new-way pain, but I'm still getting the hang of how this stuff feels. (Vs. weightlifting, where I'm pretty confident in the difference between injury and just How Exercise Feels)
Walked around a bit near Ghirardelli square yesterday, and then about a mile today. Probably went a little bit over the "recovery" zone and into "light training."
According to Apple Health I've doubled my weekly miles walked from what I was doing in December, so I'm trying to hold mileage steady this week. Shooting for ~7 miles logged in "formal" training, plus the usual life walking around.
And no hills this week!
Always been a little skeptical of stretching but I'm reading Ready to Run and I think I'm gonna have to get on board.
Doing some mobilizations during warmup definitely made a difference to how a slightly-elevated-impact workout felt on my knees and ankles.
No running, yet, still, but walking still gets me well into Zone 2 for 15+ minutes so I'm happy with my work today.
Nat Bennett