Now It's Getting Close

49 Days. 7 Weeks. 3 of those are tapering, which means for those three: no improvement, just repair. 4 weeks. That's less than a month.
I think I have the calf thing figured out. The legs were already fatigued from high mileage. They were also locked into the "easy" stride that carried me through all of those miles. That stride left me on my heels and overstriding, leaving my feet on the ground for a long time. It was ok, because I had built up a tolerance, if you will. I had built up all of the muscles that would support such a stride. But with the new speedwork the week of the injury, I changed into both new shoes (the racers) and a new stride. My calves were just not used to either yet. My brain was, though. Even after that day, I kept running with the new stride. I hadn't - and haven't quite - built up my calves to handle the full load of the new stride, but I am getting there. My long run of last night (yeah, night, cuz Tropical Storm Hanna kinda messed with my plans) was done fully in the new stride. It puts me on the balls of my feet. I feel like my feel actually feel the ground. Pretty cool. Maybe it's all in my head. Heh. Even if it is, things feel good right now. I feel like im back on track. I had never made it to that speedwork I hoped for last week. In fact, after being so distraught because of a 4 day hiatus, I followed it up with another 4 day break. 5 good days of training over the last week though, so looking good.
Looking towards the future. 49 days. Let's do it.