Hermes Agent
2.8 KiB
date, type, tags
| date | type | tags | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-13 | run |
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Run — 2026-09-13
Aborted at ~2 km. Fourth consecutive run with calf/achilles-adjacent symptoms, first one to end the run. Left lateral ankle (peroneal / fibularis) — walked home with a half-leg limp. HR was never the limiter: pace was deliberately slow and stayed under 150 bpm. The stopper was the legs, not the engine.
⚠️ Narrative-only entry. No Huawei screenshots were sent for this session, so there is no measured distance, duration, pace, HR, cadence or zone data. Distance is an estimate from the report ("barely past 2 km"). If screenshots arrive, this note gets the real numbers.
Data
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Distance | ~2.0 km (narrative estimate) |
| Avg pace | slow on purpose — "deliberately kept the pace down" |
| Avg HR | < 150 bpm (never exceeded 150) |
| Duration | — |
| Cadence / zones / VO₂Max | — (no screenshot) |
Context of the preceding 48 h: Friday night (Sep 11) concert in 0-drop flat shoes — hours of jumping and dancing, alcohol, bed after 3 am. Saturday (Sep 12) heavy fatigue, left outer ankle already sore/loaded, no pain while walking in a different shoe. Saturday night: 9 h+ sleep, HRV 110+.
How it felt
Both calves tight at the back first, then the left leg started to feel "not right" — felt like running with a slight limp, so he stopped rather than pushing on. Walking home was possible only limping on half the leg. Left lower-leg muscle very tight; left outer ankle painful. After ~15 min of sitting the tightness cleared and the ankle pain halved, but did not disappear.
Subjective read: "The pain is already half gone, after sitting for 15 mins, but it just shows that I really need to work on my feet flexibility/mobility."
Read
- Soft tissue, not bone. Pain halving after 15 min of sitting is the classic soft-tissue sign (a fracture does not do that). Lateral malleolus region, behind/under the bump = peroneal tendon.
- Load chain: concert (plyometric leg session in 0-drop shoes) + alcohol + 3 am bedtime + a walk-heavy Saturday → Sunday run. HRV recovered (110+, 9 h sleep) but HRV measures the nervous system, not tendon tissue. Good HRV + a run that dies at 2 km at low HR = local tissue is the limiter.
- Stopping was correct. A limp is the one thing you do not run through.
- Not a fitness loss. See Reviews/2026-year-in-runs — September's short-run speed is flat vs July at the same HR; the limiter is tissue, shoes and load.
Return-to-running gate: walking limp-free → then 10 single-leg heel raises pain-free → then run. Nothing before both.
Connected
- Reviews/2026-year-in-runs
- Health/mobility
- Runs/2026-09-10 (previous run — third consecutive achilles-tightness report)
- Half-marathon-plan