So I’ve not been running to work recently. I decided to stop owing to a calf strain. Its actually not that great running with an issue like this – I get a bit down when I dont run at all but I’ve come to actually rather enjoy not having to run with this pain in my calf. Sounds obvious but I’m the kind of guy that will run because I said I’ll run and if I got a calf strain or whatever, well its not as important to me as completing the run I said I’d do. Pig headed? Absolutely.

But anyway, So I just did my normal commute and thats substantially less running. I think the long distance running aggravated my calf.

I changed things a bit in terms of how I worked my calf: I didn’t work my calf at the gym, even though its part of my routine(which might be the reason its been taking a while to heal – I worked it last weekend). Also I did cycling instead of running. The rest over the weekend also helped. But is it ok now? No unfortunately not – its better but its not healed. Better means I can actually feel my calf and its not just a dull numb/pain sensation with each “plod” of my shoe. I can actually feel that I can push down on it. But its not perfect. So I’m going to keep backing off the longer runs.

The leg press has been annoying me recently so I switched to the Hack squat today and It felt easier but more importantly I wasn’t bored with it which it what I’m getting with the leg press.

I watched the new Sky Wars this weekend – Rogue One. It was an interesting/good film but I wanted more from it. Made me feel that perhaps Disney is just churning Star War films recently to recoup the costs for obtaining the rights to it. Learned about the theory behind cloud computing – very interesting. I upgraded to fedora 25 and installed Eclipse Neon.1 which is good.