7.3km | Easy I ran down to Icebergs @ Bondi Beach last night feeling pretty fresh all the way. I've been working pretty hard on my foot in the last 48 hours. Morning and night I have been either dunking my foot into an ice slurry or wrapping it in a towel with an microwave heat pack. All that together with Voltaren seems to have paid off. I finished the run with zero pain in my foot and it remains that way this morning. Phew ! My shins/calves however were giving me grief big time. Whilst I stretched before and massaged with Deep Heat (that usually works OK), I was cramping by the time I got down to Bondi. Not surprisingly, the run home (which is all uphill) was not fun. The odd thing was that when I had shin splints earlier in the year, it was really only on my left leg. That was were Andy the Pod said that my pronation was most prominent. Now I have it equally on both legs. That’s good I think, meaning that my orthotics have evened out any mechanical imbalance in my stride. I'm confident that my shin splints this time around can be resolved within a week or two with a strict stretching regime and more ice. Running home last night I was feeling great from the waist up and seemed to have regained much of my lost condition. I was even thinking that if I could stabilise my shins in the next day or two, I could run the C2S. We'll see how I feel after a light run on Saturday afternoon. Probably just wishfull thinking... Mood: ---> ~~~~~~~~~~~ Joke of the Day ~~~~~~~~~~~

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