Calf Pain - Training Question
46 F. I’m 5 weeks out from my first marathon. Training has gone well overall. I’m a slower runner at 11:30-12 min miles, so I will be on my feet for quite a while for the race. I’ve been experiencing some calf pain and tightness. As the runs get longer it takes a longer to resolve, but alway does feel better in a few days. It’s a dull muscular pain, not tendon. However, it hinders my early week runs and sometimes I have to cut back or ride the Peloton instead. I am cardio adapted. I’ve worked out for years with lifting and cycling. The breathing and HR on a run are no problem. What I feel I need is more skeletal/muscular adaptation. So my question is - can I take my mileage and spread it out more evenly through the week? Upping some of my weekday runs and taking some miles off the long run? Or should I keep the long runs even if they cut into the early week a bit? From what I’ve learned from lifting, spreading it out for adaptation seems reasonable, but this is a new and different beast.