Friday, October 30, 2009
2 days to go
I've gotten in 3 easy 3-mile runs on the treadmill. Soleus wasn't especially sore today after the run. I'm thinking I might be able to do the half, but it certainly would be a risk to the fragile soleus. Plus, I haven't trained in 3 weeks. don't know what to do. Aaargh!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Injury Report- 1st attempted run today.
Warmed up the injured calf on the elliptical for 30 min. Stretched out and tried a slow jog on the treadmill. Felt OK. Slowly upped the pace and incline and made it 1.5mi before my Soleus said "hello!". Stretched. Foam rollered. Hot Tub. Massaged. I'll call it a success after only 9 days. 12 more days to go before the half marathon. I'm determined to be ready.
Amy back from Colorado
Amy returned from seeing Judy Rosen in the hospital, recovering from surgury to remove ovarian cancer. Lots of fluid build-up. Not doing well right now. Very sad.
Monday, October 12, 2009
I came up lame! Shoot me.
I’ve been training for the ½ marathon on Nov 1st, and have done 12 mi runs for the past 3 weekends, with an 8min/mi pace. My 10K training pace has been 7:35 or 7:40 – a couple of those every week. I was feeling cocky and anything better than an 8min/mi for Sunday’s 10miler would have made me happy. I thought a 7:45/mi was easily in reach for me.
Went out at a 7:30 -7:40 pace, knowing that might be a bit fast, but was feeling good. Then I felt the calf pain at ~4 miles. Had to stop and felt if I could just stretch it out and massage it, it would feel better. Thought it was just a calf cramp- which I had never had before. Turns out, by location, soreness and inflammation, it seems to be a soleus tear. Finishing the rest of the 6 miles on it, probably didn’t do it any good (except for the experience of running through excruciating pain). And moving furniture all afternoon (instead of RICE) I’m sure just made it worse.
I was hydrated, had breakfast- including a banana that morning- so probably not an electrolyte deficiency. Especially not at only 4 miles. My diagnosis of the problem- No warm-up. Normally I run 2.5 miles, then stretch out, then continue my long run or intervals. I didn’t do that on Sunday. Just walked up to the starting line and started to run (dumb for a 45 year old). Also, my right leg is chronically tight and I always need to stretch it more (Karma Kintzler pointed this out to me).
At first I was just annoyed at my 1:21 time. But now I’m wondering how long it’s going to take this soleus tear to recover and if I just killed my HM coming up. Doah!
Race Results: http://www.azroadrunners.org/results/detail/get_moving_tucson_2009_results
Went out at a 7:30 -7:40 pace, knowing that might be a bit fast, but was feeling good. Then I felt the calf pain at ~4 miles. Had to stop and felt if I could just stretch it out and massage it, it would feel better. Thought it was just a calf cramp- which I had never had before. Turns out, by location, soreness and inflammation, it seems to be a soleus tear. Finishing the rest of the 6 miles on it, probably didn’t do it any good (except for the experience of running through excruciating pain). And moving furniture all afternoon (instead of RICE) I’m sure just made it worse.
I was hydrated, had breakfast- including a banana that morning- so probably not an electrolyte deficiency. Especially not at only 4 miles. My diagnosis of the problem- No warm-up. Normally I run 2.5 miles, then stretch out, then continue my long run or intervals. I didn’t do that on Sunday. Just walked up to the starting line and started to run (dumb for a 45 year old). Also, my right leg is chronically tight and I always need to stretch it more (Karma Kintzler pointed this out to me).
At first I was just annoyed at my 1:21 time. But now I’m wondering how long it’s going to take this soleus tear to recover and if I just killed my HM coming up. Doah!
Race Results: http://www.azroadrunners.org/results/detail/get_moving_tucson_2009_results
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