Originally Posted by
HardyWeinberg
Achilles can go south and take for freaking ever to heal. Really, like months and months.
S'truth. My lady did hers over the course of last summer playing soccer. It only ached a bit, so she kept taping it up and wouldn't stop playing; by the end of the summer she couldn't even go for short, easy runs. Even with a winter's worth of rest and physical therapy it's still bothering her.