Rut-Roh...

So I had this great idea to get in some healthy base mileage while my wife Heidi did a track workout last Tuesday.  While she did intervals with a local track club, I ran "barefoot" easy miles around the infield for an hour.  The idea was to get in some low impact mileage and reap the benefits of barefoot running - something for which I am an advocate, but don't do nearly often enough...just a mile or two here and there.

Well, after just five miles of paleo running last Tuesday, my calves have still not recovered.  They worked well enough for my long bike ride over the weekend and a few swim workouts, but in my attempts at running that followed, they were completely useless.  Not even that post-T2-feeling where they loosen up after a couple of miles - just dead - like try-to-run-on-my-toes-and-feel-them-buckle-so-that-my-heel-impacts-the ground-and-I-shuffle-like-an-old-man-dead.  Can't even run to the kitchen without looking like an idiot.

Oops.

Anyone else a barefoot running fan?  Got a secret speedy recovery trick?

So far, with the Rouge Orleans run this weekend, my strategy for the next few days involves lots of ice, compression socks, and swimming.  And a Mardi Gras parade...