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Mickie_Cricket
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I've been lurking on this thread for a while, but now hoping to tap in to some specific advice from the long-time runners as I up my own running quotient.
Firstly some background. I classify myself as a cyclist, but have always done a bit of running. From XC at school, to a previous marathon, a bunch of halves and 10ks, and running c. once every couple of weeks - generally a 10 mile run commute with bag etc. However for the main part I train and race on two wheels...that is up until June last year when this [see pic underneath] happened. >>>>>>>>>>> epic fail thread
For a few months after that I was contained in plaster and confided to the wonders of the indoor trainer. On release I wasn't capable of, or safe to go, riding and my inner chimp went into meltdown with the lack of something to strive for on the exercise front. I'm now back on my bike in a limited way, albeit my radius is still healing and it hurts quite a lot. So racing is on the back burner and I've upped my running with the aim of going sub-3 at the Manchester marathon in April. Probably doesn't sound like much to some of the epic athletes on this thread, but it's enough of a stretch for me at the moment.
So far so good, and I'm enjoying the novelty of running training. Mixture of tempo/speed/lsd work, all of which fits much more neatly around my young family. I'm very conscious of the margin for error with injury, so trying to build in as much stretching time as possible, alongside a weekly 2k swim and general XT on the bike commute/Trainerroad.
However I'm finding that particularly after my long runs (longest so far is 2 hrs) that my lower back just above my hips is getting really stiff and I can't seem to stretch it out. My working assumption is that I need to restrengthen my core after being injured, so am planking in front of the TV and trying to generally improve my posture when sat at my desk.
So to the specifics / tl:dr: