Tue 6/11 - PM 85 minutes easy

Lincoln woods. An exercise in frustration thanks to the right leg being a stiff, tight, wound-up piece of crap. Thought things had improved over the past 48 hours as it felt relatively decent just walking around during the day and whatnot, but found out within the first 10 minutes that the calf was incredibly tight. Felt like running on a pegleg, with tib anterior muscle feeling like it was in complete spasm from doing more than its fair share of the work. Adjusted the pace and stride length and hoped for the best, somewhat better after taking a 5 minute stretch break around 40 minutes or so. From then on though the hamstring/butt got increasingly pinched and sore. Had it in my head that I was going to do hill drills, started to think better of it but of course stubbornly persisted in the hope that it might loosen things up a bit. Of course it didn't really, and the drills felt just as awkward and clunky as the rest of the run did. The final bit of stupidity was trying a few half-hearted short pickups on Old Concord on the way in, just to test out the leg. It felt absolutely awful, as in unable to function normally without sufficient pain in the thigh/butt area to force a slowing of speed. At a loss to grasp how the race on Saturday aggravated it to this degree, maybe just the coup de grace of something a long time coming but the leg is fucked right now. Much closer to injured than healthy for sure. The calf just doesn't respond to all attempts to loosen it up and the hammie/glute feels like it's stuck in a vise. If ever I needed massage work it would be now but my go-to guy is on vacation. To top things off for the day, rain started in the last 15 minutes or so after skies became increasingly overcast and threatening during the course of the run. Cool to the point of being clammy already so the rain was most unwelcome and made doing post-run mobility drills a pipe dream, merely adding to the frustration.