Recovery from Calf Heart Attack (Archiving the injury)
I'm writing this post to put my experience about this weird running injury involving calf muscles. I wrote about it in my previous post. However, at that time I didn't know that there is a particular term about it, "Calf Heart Attack". The earliest documentation of this injury on web is from a Runner's World article by John Parker. The second article about Calf Heart Attack is much recent from 2019 by Daniel Frey. In first article, John Parker describes calf heart attacks as: The calf would get tender, sometimes knotty, after hard training (usually intervals); then a few days later, while out on a run, I'd feel a sharp pain very deep in the gastroc, and bingo, I'd be out of business. So I'd take a few more days off, more massage, and then start back. Deja vu all over again. And I found I could repeat the cycle as many times as I wanted, and the injury would just keep popping back up. It was the most frustrating injury I had ever dealt with. As ment...