“Anyone can start. Winners finish!”
Resting HR (average): 60
Injury status: (R) Calf 2/10
Neural stretching (knee to nose. averages in cm):
Baseline 37; Afterwards 32
This week saw upward progress and a small ray of sunshine in what has been a month of darkness! I had a small goal to run 8km 3 times during the week.
I managed to run 8km Monday, Wednesday and Friday as I set out to do. However Wednesdays’ run was uncomfortable and my right calf was felt like it was tightening up again. It was sore after my run also, and I feared that Friday’s run would cause it to blow up. However Friday’s run was reasonably comofortable.
In between on Tuesday and Thursday I did a bit of work on the exercycle.
I’ve tried to up the ante on my neural stretches, as it seems to have been the only thing my body responds to. I now have to try and manage them 3x a day. They are slowly getting better again, although they are always painful to do! It’s simply the degree of pain I can tolerate that varies!
On Saturday we went down to the Gold Coast for the Gold Coast marathon. Rheanna ran her first half-marathon in a time of 2:22! You can read about it here. I just watched all the runners, wishing I could be out there…oh well I have to keep working away at it…
“Be proud of how far you have come.
Have faith in how far you can go”
