Hello,
I have been taking swim lessons for about two months now. After twenty-one years of beating up my body running, I decided to give it a break by learning to swim. Well......
I now have pain in both achilles tendons. It is down low, on the back of my heels. I am still running, but only a fraction of the mileage I was doing before. I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how my limited amount of running has caused this heel pain. It all started about two months ago. So, I have put 2 and 2 together ... it must be the swimming, but how?
I am using flippers. Could that be it?
Please help. I'm tired of aching all the time!
Thanks,
Cheryl
I used to run quite a bit too. Never any achilles pain, but problems with loose ankles. I use fins a lot in the pool and have never had any achilles pain whatsoever. Sounds like your fins may be too small. Or maybe it's the inflexible ankles ... As Slowswim said, try not to kick with fins. If you kick with fins frequently, you are apt to have more feet/ankle problems. And zoomers are not for kicking; they're for swimming.
I used to run quite a bit too. Never any achilles pain, but problems with loose ankles. I use fins a lot in the pool and have never had any achilles pain whatsoever. Sounds like your fins may be too small. Or maybe it's the inflexible ankles ... As Slowswim said, try not to kick with fins. If you kick with fins frequently, you are apt to have more feet/ankle problems. And zoomers are not for kicking; they're for swimming.
