Posted in Great North Run, training
Tags: Great North Run 2009, injury, recovery, stretching
Well, when it comes to training, the past two weeks have been uneventful. I’ve been proceeding with my recovery schedule and gradually increasing my training. It’s a very slow build-up and I won’t be able to get up to 13 miles in my training before the race. Gradually, however, my confidence is returning with every week that passes injury-free.
Also, in light of the latest advice, I’ve decided to scrap my old warm-up routine for a new one. Instead of doing fifteen minutes of static stretches (which involves moving the muscles beyond their natural range of movement to increase their elasticity), I’m doing more dynamic stretches, which helps lubricate the joints and warm-up the muscles better.
Dynamic stretches encourages more blood flow to the muscles, which means greater delivery of oxygen and improved flushing away of waste products from exercise (like lactic acid). That’s then followed by a five-minute jog to my usual starting point, where I start as normal.
Posted August 23rd, 2009 by Simon
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Posted in Great North Run, training
Tags: Great North Run, physiotherapist, recovery
Four weeks into my training now. I’m dreadfully behind schedule and any thoughts of completing this half-marathon in anything less than two hours have now thoroughly evaporated.
Earlier this week I decided to visit a physiotherapist. The deep muscle massage seemed to help relieve some of the pain in my muscle, but it did make it sore the next day. That was probably because I have deliberately rested it much as possible for the last eight weeks (on doctors’ orders). Now it seems to be healing and this has given me extra confidence that this is the beginnings of a permanent recovery.
As I said at the beginning, there is no way I can complete my original training plan and I probably won’t have time to build up to the half-marathon distance either, but I hope to get up to around ten miles before the race. The rest I’m sure will come on the day. Whatever state I’m in, I’ll still run it and enjoy it. The PB will have to wait until next year.
Posted August 3rd, 2009 by Simon
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