“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying” Michael Jordan
Resting HR (average): 54
Injury status: (L) low back 1/10, (R) Calf 7/10
This week can only be described as extreme frustration. With only 4 weeks before the Gold Coast marathon, it’s not a great time to be breaking down.
The Right calf has gone from bad to worse, and I can only run for about 1km before the pain stops me. I thought it was a calf strain, but I have been to medical professionals and had an ultrasound scan which could not pick up a tear anywhere. The most likely scenario is neural tension, similiar to the injury that kept me out of Comrades 2008. It’s a complex problem that doesn’t like to go away easily.
I haven’t been doing much neural stretching in May, as the first half of the month I was going so well, after a great start to the year. I guess it shows that with my physiology, I have to be doing neural stretches every day without fail. My test to see how far my nose is from my knees in the long sitting position (trying to touch ones toes) is about 38cm at the moment and it was down to about 25cm at one stage.
The week went extrememly badly in terms of being able to train, keeping up the mental strength and again getting some decent sleep. Hopefully this problem can be rectified in the coming week, otherwise it looks like I won’t be able to run the Gold Coast marathon, and beyond…
| Mon 1 June | 30 min cycle, 20 min crosstrainer, abs |
| Tue 2 June | 1km, 30 min cycle, abs |
| Wed 3 June | 1 hour total trainer, abs |
| Thur 4 June | 30 min cycle |
| Fri 5 June | |
| Sat 6 June | |
| Sun 7 June | 90 min walk |
| Mileage | 1km |
| Running Load | 8 |
“7 days without running makes one weak!”
