Running calf injury: understanding, healing, preventing

NOTE : a new article follows this one:
How to heal his calf contractures made running

I would like to share with you, fellow runners, this excellent article from HealthSport Magazine: “Calf Slam Auto-Rehabilitation“. It’s not for nothing, because Sunday, without getting to the breakdown, I still hurt. And this article will have frankly enlightened me on the reasons and given a path to prevention. I was talking last night with the chairman of the local french gymnastic committee after a meeting, and we agreed that 10 riders = 10 tips = 10 training methods. So, take the following of this article as my only reading and keep what you want.

My history

I injured my left calf for the first time during the preparation of the marathon of Toulouse metropolis in September 2012. I chained the long outings, without pushing too much cardio and that day, I run very slowly with a beginner colleague. A “recovery” in sum … While I was little over 100 bpm cardio, I felt a tip to the calf. I walk back and decide to leave “test this”. 600 m further: CLONG !! Fatal …. The radio has “shown something” but nothing obvious. In any case, not a breakdown. A month of rest and a slight recovery still allowed me to run the marathon (3:46 for my first).
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Migrating from b2evolution to WordPress

Tutorial

The migration principle is rather simple:

  • You have to export the blog content in a MovableType format with the skin I created : _MtExport
  • You need to tidy it up a bit.
  • You import it in WordPress with its import tool
  • You smile

I had to create a skin to be able to export most of the blog data. Previous existing plugins were either useless nor downloadable. So I tried to match most of the Movable Type specifications:  Movable Type import/export format. _MtExport can export :

  • AUTHOR
  • TITLE
  • BASENAME
  • DATE
  • STATUS
  • ALLOW PINGS
  • ALLOW COMMENTS
  • PRIMARY CATEGORY
  • CATEGORY: (Toutes les autres)
  • KEYWORDS: (les tags)
  • BODY

About the comments, they are present and their important fields too :

  • COMMENT:
    • AUTHOR
    • EMAIL
    • DATE
    • URL
    • IP

Rather complete ? So, dive into this guide to know the rest and download the skin  _MtExport. Continue reading