As I often find with my running, I get to a comfortable level of fitness and then I get hit by yet another injury. This time its a calf strain.
I was out on Saturday, enjoying a particularly sadistic run in the rain and wind and hitting a lovely and lively pace (for me). I git to 5 miles in and, BANG!, my right calf went. No warnings were given, just a sudden acute pain half way up and then I had to limp home.
I could barely walk on Saturday afternoon but yesterday it eased off a bit. Today doesn't seem to be an improvement on yesterday which is frustrating. I guess I will have to simply hold off the running until I cant feel any pain at all.
I have two questions for the UKCRunners. Firstly, do you do anything to prevent calf strains in your routines. Ive never had this before and it was particularly painful.
Im 44 years old now and running is my primary mode of fitness as I tried cycling and didnt like it and I'm an awful swimmer. What things do you more mature runners do to to hold off the injuries or is it simply a case of accepting that niggles are a part of life when running into your older years?