Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
I just found it curious that three on here had achilles issues.
I have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of miles over my life and never had such a problem and doing 400km in a day was never an issue. I thought maybe there was a common reason.
I wish I knew. Again, it ticked me off when I had the issue. I've done a couple 400's and 600's in the Missouri hills, and a Nebraska Sandhills 1000 and not an issue. Then I do 180, followed by 170 and 40 miles into the 3rd day it is sounding/feeling like a rusty gate. I remember sitting in a chair and having the ice machine on it at the Spoke n Hostel, thinking that I'm done. All the training and preparation and I'm out on day 3? So I can sympathize with those that have to make that call. I basically hit ice at most CS that I passed for the next couple days. That, meds and limiting the mileage to 110-130, and I got (mostly) over it. The only thing I would do differently (if there is a) next time, would be to ice that same achilles in the evenings from day 1.