Resting injuries

I have finally given into the concept of taking time off running when I feel continuous pain. I haven't run for five days now and I am going to take the next week off too so that my calf might actually heal instead of get worse and it will do my Achilles tendons good too. I am not able to run at all comfortably at the moment and I feel like I am limping and altering my gait to compensate, which will just lead to futher injury.

It has taken a couple of months of pain and mental anguish to make the decision to rest for a prolonged time but I realised that if I want to still be running at all in 10 years time that I need to be more sensible now.

I will still stretch my muscles and tendons and then start slowly running again in a week or so. Once I get back on my feet I will re-assess my goals and targets but I am still confident of breaking the 3 hour barrier in the marathon at some point this year.