Cramp

Slight setback. I had aimed to follow the 10% rule this morning and increase my long run mileage to 32 - 33 K but instead what ended up happening was an average 20 K. I have this little shop around the 20 K mark that I stop at to buy water before continuing but this morning right from the 5 K mark something was wrong. I felt a constant dull pain in both my heels as I ran, it was colder than usual (duh its November), my shoes didn't feel right and worst of all I started cramping. I managed to ignore the slow paralysis creeping up but I pretty much knew that this wasn't going away.

At 20 K when I stopped for water, my hamstrings and calves collectively froze. I tried walking, tried stretching and going back to a slow jog but it didn't work. No sir said my hamstrings. I haven't felt this kind of pain before. The strange this is that the rest of my body, heart, breathing...everything was at a 100%...almost expecting me to push them for another hour. But of course without hamstrings you're playing a losing game. I think I did the wise thing...I listened to my body and stopped. I don't feel entirely happy right now but I still had a good run at a decent pace and this will make me increase my stretching...a lot more.