You are reading a single comment by @ewanmac and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
@ewanmac
Jumping in at the appropriate point means you've got a 20mile run this weekend no? I can't remember any kind of history of where you are at in terms training so far, but 20miles is a long run to be jumping in to... especially if your knee is already giving you gip. I'd be careful of ramping things up too quickly. You never know, your body might be able to take it but then again it might not...
As above... I couldn't run for 2 months before my first ironman because I went (or tried to go) from zero to marathon in about 8 or 9 months. I popped a load of drugs during the bike and did the run but it hurt. My overwhelming memory is that the crowds stopped cheering and just silently gaped, appalled as I limped past. My advice - go back to your goals and put "injury prevention/avoidance" up there in the number 1 slot.
I don't mean to be down in either case or to tell people to take it easier than they should, but injury management/prevention seems to me to be the toughest part of training for any event.
Along those lines a tough lesson was learned in our little household this weekend. As posted previously my GF who is training for her first half hurt her knee last week. She took the week off but was getting angsty about not running and so against my advice she went out and ran 5km. Now she can barely walk at all and will probably lose at least another 2 weeks. I'm certainly not saying that the lesson was that she should have listened to me (in fact emphatically not), but the lesson learned was a small one in listening to the signals you're body is giving you.
The question of "train and risk aggravating an injury" vs "rest and lose training time" is one that everyone battles with. For my part I was lucky today... I did about 8hrs this weekend and my ankle was a bit tight this morning but I ran anyway. A couple of km's in I was on the brink of stopping to avoid making things worse but, I eased up the pace and did the scheduled 10km with no problems at all. Even so I think I'll swap tomorrows sprints for an interval turbo session, then I've got a swim scheduled for Wednesday so hopefully everything will be back on track before the weekend :-).