I thought I was anal in tracking down to the tenth of a mile but 131 to 144 meters for a 30 second sprint? Are you using the GPS on a Drone to track your runs?
This was going to be the weekend when I started going a little longer and faster. The plan was to do 8-9 miles on Saturday and 10 X 400 on Sunday. So of course I slightly tweaked my left calf muscle on Tuesday or Thursday's morning run and I didn't want to push it so I did my normal 6-7 mile runs both days.
I usually get slightly injured about once a year and it almost always involves my calves (which is ironic since I have almost non existent ones hence why I call it my phantom calf injuries). It tends to happen when I start to slightly increase my pace to under 7 min 30 sec pace, so I have to reduce the pace until the pain goes away. By the time I have gotten over the fear that running harder will cause a return of the injury and start running hard, I get injured.
The smart thing to do would be to avoid running for a few days to give it time to heal but I don't have the patience to wait or mental strength to fight through my exercise addiction. Even when I was training for an Ironman, I could not take more than one day off from running. Of course I could stretch or do other preventative exercises but that would be too logical.
Saturday - around 7 miles in 52.51 http://app.strava.com/activities/37996072
Sunday - 6 miles on Mt Tam High School Track (boring yes but I didn't want to walk home three miles if my calf injury got so bad I had to walk) in 45.25
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