Posts Tagged ‘recovery’
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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Posted in Great North Run, training
Tags: Great North Run, recovery
After last weeks’ good start, this week it felt more like a false dawn. I felt a recurring pain in my pulled muscle on a training run last Tuesday, so I decided to skip the next two runs on Thursday on Sunday, to see if it went away.
Being injured and attempting to train whilst recovering is so frustrating! Hopefully everything will have settled down again by the time of my next training run, so I can continue. This stop-start business with this injury and recovery is starting to knock my confidence that I will ever get back to where I was six months ago.
Posted July 21st, 2009 by Simon
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Posted in Great North Run, training
Tags: Great North Run 2009, recovery, recuperation
After the Monday training run I mentioned in my last post, my legs ached just a bit too much. Naturally I thought of the worst – that I had pulled the same muscle again – so I thought I’d better play it safe and skip my planned Wednesday run for that week. I hoped that this would give me enough time to recover for my Friday run.
As ever, I was anxious about returning to running again, however, this time everything just felt normal. No unusually aching muscles or any pain. Which made a nice change from what I’ve put up with for the last six weeks.
So I now I’m going to properly ease myself back into training and actually start following a training schedule again. It’s very mild compared to what I’m used to, but there’s no way I’m going to risk another six weeks of not being able to train.
Posted July 14th, 2009 by Simon
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Posted in Dublin Marathon, Edinburgh Marathon, Leeds 10K, marathon, training
Tags: Dublin Marathon, Edinburgh Marathon, Leeds 10K, recovery, training
After the marathon I took a couple of days of to recover and to regroup. For the rest of that week, I was on a high. I was surprised by how soon I recovered. Within three days of the event my muscles had stopped aching and I didn’t feel overly tired or exhausted at all. One of the decisions I made that week was to run another marathon. I couldn’t start training immediately for one, however, because I had already committed to running in another event.
So the focus has switched to my next fundraising event: the Leeds 10k. I applied for this before I applied for the London Marathon and before I had even heard of the Edinburgh Marathon (I ran in Edinburgh because I couldn’t get into London). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted June 12th, 2008 by Simon
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