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September 20, 2008
more of the same
This past week I started running again. I'm not sure I should have, but after 5 weeks of not-running I just had to try.
I led up to this with a week of gallowalking. Then Sunday I ran 6.5 miles very slowly; my leg felt tight and weird every step, but I could live with it. Monday, on Dror's suggestion, I ran 5 miles a little faster, and Tuesday I did the same, and running began to feel a little more normal.
Wednesday I went to track and Dror had me run 4x800; I have to state that he had no time goal whatsoever for this, but I did 'em pretty much by feel and ended up running about the same 800 times I ran before the injury. By the 4th item my leg was sore and weak, but that was ok because I had a whole day and a half to recover (Dror cut me back to every-other-day running for the rest of the week). I rested the remainder of the day, and just rode the bike a little Thursday morning. I was fairly sore Thursday but had a 10-hour day (on my feet) to get through, so I was glad when the day was over.
Friday morning we had temps below 75F for the first time in months, and I really wanted to have fun with the 5 miles allotted to me, but...my leg felt like crushed crap. In fact, both legs (calves) were sore, probably because I'd worn flats at track. I trudged through 5 miles, made a big effort not to limp at all, got back home and crawled into bed and slept two hours. Moped around for an hour, then crwaled back into bed and slept a couple more. Woke up with a throbbing leg, which was quickly dispatched with advil.
The rest of the day was just foul - I didn't want to cook, eat, clean up, anything. Midway through dinner-prep I discovered we were out of rice and I nearly chucked the whole mess of half-cooked food into the garbage. I was asleep on the couch before 9pm. For a Friday night with no early run scheduled the next day, that's just ridiculous.
I've been trying not to get really down about this, but it's so hard on my own. I wish, I wish I could go to a doctor like normal people and be told "THIS is what you've got and THIS is what you need to do to get over it; you CAN do this but DON'T do that." Right now I'm running when I feel like it, working long days because I don't have anything valid (like a doctor's note) that says I shouldn't, doing household chores that may or may not involve standing and walking. I laid off running 5 weeks and now I want results. I want my old life back.
Posted by joe positive at September 20, 2008 6:45 AM
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Joe +ve, i've been reading. Send me an email and if you want i'll call you. Or maybe we can IM. You can get over this, but you have to get unemotional about it or it's going to take a whole lot longer. Take care.
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at September 20, 2008 4:51 PM
Joe +ve, i've been reading. Send me an email and if you want i'll call you. Or maybe we can IM. You can get over this, but you have to get unemotional about it or it's going to take a whole lot longer. Take care.
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at September 20, 2008 4:52 PM
Who is Dror? Is this a new coach? I am glad you are able to run some, but suspect it may be too much to go from 9 to 4-5 days in a week with a track workout. I was recently quasi-injured and ran through it, but had to nix the speed work and run everything painfully slow or it would flare up.
I wish you could get something more definitive on the injury too. But realistically that won't make you any happier about it.
Good luck - although you are probably as sick of hearing that at this point as you are of faeries. :)
Have a good weekend.
Posted by: Mindi at September 21, 2008 4:30 PM