I am now about a week removed from Ragnar and am starting to assess how the race affected my injury-plagued lower-half.  In short, some prior injuries seem fine, some seem bad.

• IT Bands: Miraculously they didn’t hurt during the race so I am optimistic that all of my daily work on the foam roller is doing the trick.  Fingers crossed.
• Stress Fracture on left Fibula: This didn’t hurt during the race or the day after. But, in the following week it has started to throb.  Whereas the pain had completely dissipated before – even when pressing on injured part of the bone – it is now back as a constant throb. If I press on it, I can definitely feel it. So, I think that got reinjured a bit. I was fairly certain this would happen. I bet it would have been much worse had I worn my normal street shoes. I think the max-cushioning on my Altra Olympus trial shoes saved me even worse trouble.
• New injuries:
  • Stress fracture on my right fibula?  Maybe.  There is new pain there that is persistent and feels a lot like my left.
  • Knees. There is some occasional knee pain in places other than my IT band spots.
  • Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). Oh yes – like I haven’t had in a LONG time. I haven’t been this sore for this long in well over a year.

 

The plan moving forward?  No running for another week maybe. Perhaps I’ll focus on some light conditioning and strength training and stretching around the house.