Pain, but thankfully no gain

Morning weight: 213lbs

On Saturday I decided that I’d try and see how well my knees would hold up if I didn’t wear braces for my soccer game.  Two hours later, they felt fine.  I had no soreness, no niggling pain, nothing.  I felt so good, that I decided to go to another game on Sunday.  Again, no knee braces (although they were in my bag).  I did my usual warm up exercises, and started the game.  After about 45 minutes I noticed some pain in my calf.  Unlike the last time I played when this happened, I decided to keep going.  Rather nicely I scored a hat-trick (3 goals), which was a first for me, given that I usually play back in defence, but we had a really good player on our team so pretty much all I had to do was stand in the right place while he took on every defender on the other team, then crossed for me to just tap the ball in.

After the game my calf continued to hurt.  I made the decision not to exercise yesterday, as I don’t want to exacerbate the injury, although I did do a quick walk around the block with the dog.  Today it feels a lot better, and I think I’ll try and work out tonight, getting back into the swing of things.

25 days to the 1/2 marathon…