“Faith is seeing light with your heart
when all your eyes see is darkness”
Resting HR (average): 55
Injury status: Left calf pain 4/10
Neural stretching (knee to nose. averages in cm):
Baseline 24.5; Afterwards 21.5
A week that can only be described as intensely frustrating.
It started off promising with a tough 10km hill session. After a 4km warm-up, I did a series of 4 sprints over the goodwill bridge, followed by another 2km jog, and then 4 sprints up Cordelia St.
On Tuesday it was a gentle 18km, and later that day I started to feel my left calf getting sore. The same pain that kept me out of Comrades Marathon 2008. It wasn’t bad but enough to remind me it is still there and ready to surface.
I had felt my lower and middle back the previous week, not being helped by some crappy chairs when down on the Gold Coast. Whenever my back isn’t happy, my calf gets affected.
After some intense work on my back and leg I managed 6km on Thursday but it still wasn’t feeling right. Friday morning’s long run got postponed, and I decided to take some time off over the weekend and see if I can get my leg right again.
It’s extremely disappointing as the one thing that has seemed to help it has been my neural stretching. At the moment I am more flexible than I’ve ever been, so it doesn’t make sense to be sore. All I can do is work hard to get it right, and pray!
Let’s hope next week is more positive!
| Mon 14 Sept | 10km hill session, 30 min cycle, Abs, Squats |
| Tue 15 Sept | 18km,Step exercises, Abs, Squats |
| Wed 16 Sept | 1 hour Total trainer, 30 min cycle, Abs |
| Thur 17 Sept | 6km |
| Fri 18 Sept | 30 min cycle |
| Sat 19 Sept | |
| Sun 20 Sept | |
| Mileage | 34km |
| Running Load | 77 |
“Great hopes make everything great possible”
Bejamin Franklin
