9 days
It's 9 days till the marathon and I'm injured....let's back up a bit.
After coming back from Europe things got busy. The usual September student organizing as well as the wedding season still alive made things a bit hectic. I managed to get out a little but I was definitely feeling a bit unprepared for a marathon. And in the short runs I was doing as of a couple weeks ago I was getting the side stitches again. My self diagnosis was that I was a bit out of shape (4 or 5 days between runs) and my eating was a bit infrequent. I decided that I would do a couple short runs and make sure that I was properly carbing up. SO, last Thursday I went for a shorty (40 min), then a medium (1 hour 20 min) on Friday, and on Sunday which is exactly 2 weeks before the marathon and knew that this would be the last long run I was allowed before the marathon and I would begin my taper the next day, I went for "The BIg One". It was a 3+ hour haul, probably about 21 miles (all the literature told me that 23 miles should be the longest one before the marathon). In coming around the final stretch, I felt a pain in my right calf not unlike the injury I suffered before Christmas last year. I walked in, not because of the injury, but to cool down and thought it was interesting that my calf started to hurt at the very end of the run.
SO...
On Wednesday, the intention was to do a very short (30 min) run and after about 15 min I got that biting pain in the calf and I stopped immediately and walked it in. When this happened last year, it took 10 days of recovery and a new pair of shoes. At that point, I was using pronating shoes when I was in fact a neutral runner. Perhaps that forever injured me. It doesn't matter I guess. I just simply have to take it easy between now and next week and still keep the cardio UP! Biking and swimming are gonna be the life savers this week and I'll hold off any running until Wednesday I'm thinking. Maybe a 5 minuter on Tuesday, then 10 to 15 on and Wednesday and Thursday and 30 minutes on Friday. That's the plan....for now.
After coming back from Europe things got busy. The usual September student organizing as well as the wedding season still alive made things a bit hectic. I managed to get out a little but I was definitely feeling a bit unprepared for a marathon. And in the short runs I was doing as of a couple weeks ago I was getting the side stitches again. My self diagnosis was that I was a bit out of shape (4 or 5 days between runs) and my eating was a bit infrequent. I decided that I would do a couple short runs and make sure that I was properly carbing up. SO, last Thursday I went for a shorty (40 min), then a medium (1 hour 20 min) on Friday, and on Sunday which is exactly 2 weeks before the marathon and knew that this would be the last long run I was allowed before the marathon and I would begin my taper the next day, I went for "The BIg One". It was a 3+ hour haul, probably about 21 miles (all the literature told me that 23 miles should be the longest one before the marathon). In coming around the final stretch, I felt a pain in my right calf not unlike the injury I suffered before Christmas last year. I walked in, not because of the injury, but to cool down and thought it was interesting that my calf started to hurt at the very end of the run.
SO...
On Wednesday, the intention was to do a very short (30 min) run and after about 15 min I got that biting pain in the calf and I stopped immediately and walked it in. When this happened last year, it took 10 days of recovery and a new pair of shoes. At that point, I was using pronating shoes when I was in fact a neutral runner. Perhaps that forever injured me. It doesn't matter I guess. I just simply have to take it easy between now and next week and still keep the cardio UP! Biking and swimming are gonna be the life savers this week and I'll hold off any running until Wednesday I'm thinking. Maybe a 5 minuter on Tuesday, then 10 to 15 on and Wednesday and Thursday and 30 minutes on Friday. That's the plan....for now.
posted by Hammer at 9:09 PM
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