Start time: 8/28/2014, 5:37am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6.1 miles
Average pace: 10:28 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 80 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 545 miles
Current Shoes: 102 miles

Start time: 8/29/2014, 5:35am
Location: National Mall
Distance: 6 miles
Average pace: 9:45 min/mile
Total Miles For August: 86 miles
Total Miles For 2014: 551 miles
Current Shoes: 108 miles

Ran on Thursday w/ Ben and Steve, and my right calf (which had been a little stiff on Monday) was continuing to be so that day, too. Friday was supposed to have amazing weather, though, and I wasn’t sure if a Saturday run was going to happen. So given the opportunity for a Friday morning run, I jumped on it…

…and a quarter mile from the end, my right calf went from a little stiff to really hurting. *sigh* I’ve had this happen before (back in 2007) and it was an achilles mechanism strain. (Essentially the muscles that connect to the achilles tendon.) I ended up taking two weeks off last time and that did the trick then, so hopefully… maybe? Fingers crossed. Until then, ice and stretching and elevation and such.