Running

Well done both.

90min run today, and if I'd have kept at target pace I'd have come very close to squeezing a half in too. However, off-road with Moz is always going to be a bit more work and significant patches of the route had been badly rutted up by tractors and then semi frozen and so were seriously tough going. Ended up doing just over 18k and really enjoyed it - I think that's longest run for both Moz and I in over a year.

When we got back Moz refused to go inside and insisted on playing fetch with my sister and the flatcoat for another half hour.

It wasn't just yellow - a lot of people were wearing high-vis and reflective clothes, a bit unnecessary given the roads were all closed, I thought. The reflective stuff was especially bad in the sunlight, one guy nearly burned my retinas!!

I hope Moz strava'd the game of fetch!

Sadly she didn't... next time.

Tregaron half marathon on Sunday, after possibly the worst week running I've ever had I wasn't expecting much. Got there and it was white with frost everywhere and still below zero at 11am for the start.

It's a tough hilly course so I was really happy to go under 1:30 for only the second time, finished in 1:28 ish ( forgot my Garmin ) and my wife won the women's race in 1:36:04.

So a good day at the races :)

^strong work on the sub 1:30

am into the real meat of the hansons marathon plan again now. last week of speedwork, first 16 miler on sunday, on track for a 52 mile week. so. fucking. tired.

you know how your brain tries to hide previous times of discomfort and pain from your memory, it's all coming back from last year, I remember now. wah

No marathon for me this April. The knee pain I thought was a thing of the past came back when running on Monday evening after about 5k. This after a week of no running (but plenty of skiing) and plenty of looking after my legs - stretching and rolling.

Pretty pissed off as I've followed all the advice I've been given by the physio & sports doctor. At least I know from the MRI that there is nothing physically wrong with the joint itself. Silver linings - ish.

Better withdraw my place :(

Fuck, that sucks! Can you transfer it?......

How's the cycling?

that sucks Arducius, there's still 2 months to go but if you want to give it your best shot i get why you might want to just accept it's not gonna happen this year.

on the upside you'll have the spot next year assuming you got in through the ballot so you can focus on fixing whatever is ailing you knowing you're already in next year.

Yeah I can defer the place to the 2016 event. Have to pay the entry fee again but at least it's a guaranteed place if I can't run this year.

Cycling feels ok, I just don't get enough time for any cycling that isn't to work and back (10 mins in traffic wach way) these days.

@HatBeard if I managed to get over whatever it is that's causing the pain I reckon I'd be able to get around the course, just fairly slowly. 2 months isn't that long to rest, rehab, restart training, and get fit enough to get through 26 miles though.

I have had a lot of good training advice from the physio already and have a lot more conditioning exercises I can do now so at least the sessions aren't completely wasted.

Oh crap :( Do you know what's causing the pain?

How's it going for you? I totally wussed out and haven't been since, rather ashamed! My other half joined the gym yesterday and wants me to go with her, it's definitely given me a kick to start running again too, might go for a few sessions on the treadmill to ease back in to it (again!).

Nope. The physio's initial thought (back at the beginning of Nov) was stress fracture, so I saw a sports doctor and had an MRI which showed some evidence of bone stress (what you get before it becomes a stress fracture) but I was very low on the scale. Followed advice and took calcuim and vit D supplements, rested and then did physio exercises.

I think it might be something in my hip that's pulling the knee out, or possibly something to do with the sciatic nerve as I sometimes get a dull ache (that's not muscle tiredness) in my calf, as well as other pains around my knee.

I foam rolled my legs today and couldn't find any tightness in ITB, quads, glutes or calfs so at least that's one good thing!

Reading the Hansons book at the moment, might give it a go next year.

18 miles planned for Saturday, so cross country should be fun on Sunday :)

My wife had terrible knee pain right through Oct/Nov and December 2 years ago, no pain whilst walking but 2/3 miles into a run she'd be forced to stop.
Everyone was saying I.T.B but nothing helped, then a local rugby physio diagnosed a mis aligned sacroiliac joint.
It made a dreadful noise when he manipulated it but she was back running the next day.

Too bad. You should get going again indeed!

My progress, if any, is OK more or less. I've ran 9 sessions so far, and although 1 muscle in my left lower leg (most probably the flexor digitorum longus) has started to complain during the last two sessions - I admit, I ran longer than the schedule advised - I am almost starting to like it, especially because this minor snag doesn't hinder my riding a bike and it's a better workout than I expected, definitely feel my legs after about 40 minutes training and I feel my abdomen muscles also profit from it. I should say though, now the snow is gone and the temperatures are above zero again I ride more, and run less. Trying to keep 2 days a week without physical excercise to be able to recover!

i had two days of pure fatigue on Monday and Tuesday after my second biggest week ever last week. 70 miles rounded off with x country on Saturday and 21 mile round Richmond Park on Sunday. Work was a real challenge after that. going to trial the first of the gels this weekend.

@Arducius rest. rest. and more rest.

my place for the Cambridge half arrived today. anyone done it?

That must be really frustrating :( Being injured is crap but not knowing why you're injured so what you can do about it must be even worse. Fingers crossed you can get it sorted, then smash it at London in 2016!

Very sharp

Pain under the arch of my left foot every now and again, feels like it's inside the foot, what's that likely to be?

A fucking tonne of things. The foot is almost ridiculously complicated.
Didn't ypu have a neuroma removed some time ago? ( its probably not a neuroma)

Bugger

Plantar fasciitis.

#interwebdiagnosis

My second opinion concurs.

#netzdoc4u

Need to get back in to this running lark. Was happily knocking-out 13 milers each week a couple of years ago but these days that would be... hard.