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My calves are so sore today, I couldn’t even jog. Today would have been mainly jogging, because my workout buddy hurt her back and was in so much pain she couldn’t work out today, hence, I would have jogged around four miles today…but I couldn’t. My calves were sore from doing the P90X method of working your calves. It’s weird though because I did the same workout last week and I wasn’t sore, so imagine my surprise last night when I felt the soreness coming on; because you can tell when the pain is starting to come. So it was no surprise when I woke up feeling sore this morning.

During my walk, I started thinking I am a “wuss”, I could have jogged but I didn’t even try and at that same time when I was having that thought, I was about to cross the street but a car was also approaching, so the car slowed and allowed me to cross, so I decided to jog across the street so as not to hold the person up too long……that two second jog across the street felt like 2 hours, the muscles in my calves all started hurting at once Describing what I did as jogging is even pushing it, it was more like a wobble! That feeling I had of being a “wuss”, went right through the window…no way I could have jogged this morning. I couldn’t even wobble across the street!

Nonetheless I had a very good walk this morning, finished in 93 minutes, but I had a good sweat and I felt awesome. During my walk though, I felt shin splints coming in my right shin, or I think that’s what it was, so I stopped and stretched and rotated my ankles, tightened my sneakers and stretched some more, I pressed my leg on a palm tree and did lunges; I read that on a website yesterday. It came in pretty handy. I have heard people say how painful it is, and the little tweaks in my shin were painful enough, I tried everything I could to not make it get worse, whatever I did helped because the pain stopped and I was able to finish my routine.