Calving

Oh, baby, I've got calves this morning. Normally I don't pay much attention to them but today they are grabbing onto my legs like terrified toddlers. Ay, carumba they are tight. Almost had to come down the stairs backwards this morning, but ended up just doing the Frankenstein walk while I held on to the banister. Haven't been this tight in a long while. Good times.

I certainly didn't run fast enough or far enough yesterday to warrant this sort of stiffness, and the weather is already in the 80s at 8:30 this morning, so I haven't stiffened up from the cold. Nothing left to blame it on but the shoes.

The KSOs are definitely changing my gait. My calves know it, but I am also feeling an odd stiffness on the inside of my thighs, tighter as you go higher. I have run very slowly the last two days and only covered 9 miles, so I'm surprised that I have any upper leg stiffness at all, particularly having it around the groin. Part of it is from being woefully out of shape at the moment, but part of it is almost certainly the change of footwear.