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viyat on March 31, 2022 at 3:44 pm · in reply to: Advice For Returning to Training After a Calf Injury #64934

Just sharing my experience on some recovery/rehab work that helped (mine happened due to too much too soon technical downhill running and I had a slight bruise so grade I/II).
Ice on the first 2 days, deep tissue massage on the 3rd day, zero running for a whole week, recovery tights/compresssion, daily calf stretch (not too much) and light calf raise eccentrics (slow on the way up and down) for 2 weeks.

re for UA training, I found that climbing indoors and using a stairmaster with mountain boots on didn’t irritate the calf. I was back to running in 2 weeks with no pain.

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viyat on January 27, 2022 at 10:19 am · in reply to: Rainier Base Training #62620

I’m in a similar situation but with the 24 week plan and a earlier objective in mind. In your case, you should be able to extend the plan to add a couple of weeks of base training (usually first 8 weeks in the longer plan but shortened for the 16 week one) and add one/two weeks of max strength.

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viyat on March 25, 2021 at 2:44 pm · in reply to: Managing Metatarsalgia #52398

here is the pic of the foot where the discomfort is

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viyat on March 25, 2021 at 2:37 pm · in reply to: Managing Metatarsalgia #52396

Hey todd & Pete, I don’t want to hijack this thread but I’m facing a similar issue right now and I wanted to get more thoughts from you about what worked for you. Long winded story below (sorry!)

At the start of my base training period, on my first aerobic run (AeT 135), I ran slow with a bad gait and pushed through the pain (very stupid on my part in retrospect). I couldn’t weight on my foot for 24 hrs but I started to notice a pulling/pebble feeling under 2nd toe MTG joint (attached an image). Its ok on the hardwood floor but on lunges, uphill work and standing on toes, I feel this pebble sensation here (no pain, more discomfort and annoyance). Podiatrist did x-rays and examined the foot – no other issues. I rested for 4 weeks (with deep tissue calf massages, icing the area and using lacrosse ball & TENS unit) until it felt 95% (no pebble feeling, doing single leg calf raises prescribed by PT) better. I went on aerobic uphill hike and the pebble feeling came back and I am lost on how to move forward with resolving this issue.

I have some 12 weeks before my Shasta climb and I would hugely appreciate on some details on what you did with the coach to fix it. I have been training using a bike vs hiking/running and have been doing long uphill bike rides to train around the injury.

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viyat on March 25, 2021 at 2:03 pm · in reply to: San Francisco Bay Area Hills with 20-50% grade #52395

I have done Mission Peak/Monument Peak with a pack and it has a good grade to it. I am also going to try doing the North Peak loop to get good vert:distance in.