running up to 9 miles one day
The week after I decided to take it easy and only run two miles and halfway through I pulled a tendon in my leg and couldn't even walk.
I do not know you personally, or your case; so I offer this for you to evaluate with someone who is reliable about exercising and nutrition >
It seems to me that you started with too much running right at your beginning, and you did not do the right preparation stretches and rotations and lightweight repetitions before the running . . . and after finishing the running. So, I would say you need to find out from whoever is reliable, if you did excessive running at the start, which helped make it possible to have the injury the next week; a delayed injury could be partly because of not doing the right conditioning before and after the running, and because you did not do the right gradual increasing of the running distance. Also . . . you possibly need to learn with the right people, about drinking the right fluids during the exercise. I understand that you can get in major trouble, if you don't drink enough water and if you don't get the right minerals which effect how well your muscles work.
I'm age 84 and suffering pain and impairment all the time.
Hi, Mitch . . . prayer for you. I'll bring you in at this point to share what you, also, along with Messerve might want to read.
One time, I had been active for a while; I think I rode my bike eleven miles or so on a warmer or hot day. Then I lay down to rest; after I woke up from a little nap, my ankles got stiff like wood with extreme pain like I maybe have never felt before. I could do nothing. I just stayed there and considered that God would decide if I ever could walk and do anything, again. I think I was like, "Ok, God, I know this could be 'thorn in the flesh' stuff (2 Corinthians 12:7-15), or my life is finished because You are not satisfied with how I have been living and ministering; so here I am."
My lady friend was in the other room. I trusted God with it, and peeped her name, trying to get her to come to be with me, so I could tell her what was going on. After I muttered and whimpered a few times, she came, and I told her how the top of my feet and my lower shins were like a board in agonizing pain. She stood there for a moment, and then it went away.
I was like, ok, God decided that, and I thanked her for whatever she might have done, meaning maybe she had quietly prayed for me. And she did not say anything clear.
Then I considered how I had not been drinking water while biking about eleven miles, I think I remember. And I understand that athletes can get major debilitating cramps because they are dehydrated. And, maybe, if they don't have the salt and potassium and magnesium and other things they need, maybe this can help cause the muscle trouble.
So, I have been doing more regular stretching of my ankles and shins, and drinking water more steadily while busy on my bike and hot days. And I take a vitamin to help make sure I have minerals, plus I drink an electrolyte replenishing drink, at times. Also, I might do gentle massaging with finger pressing of my wrists and arms and shins.
And I see what is needed is we need to keep doing certain basic things steadily, not only at times making a major gesture!!!! And I see how exercising, too, needs to be steady, mainly for maintaining us at a good level . . . not trying to force our way into great accomplishments.
So, I suppose from this > it might apply that you need to make sure you are steady with whatever you find you need to do. It might not give you a quick fix, but there could be longterm improvement > or > at least > you might help to prevent things from getting worse than if you don't do something . . . whatever you find with God and reliable people that you need to do.
And have you fed on 2 Corinthians 12:7-15? Does this help you? I will be glad to get into this with you, if you like.
