Auviour Paris: So long and thanks for the cobbles

Another flip freezing run into work. Need to run with some others to spice up the speed work and the long runs which I have lacked so far this block of running.  Done 5 runs this week out of the six I said I would do on Jantanstic.....Marathon Talk Motivational thingy.......

I know its tough Bo.....stay sane............a hot water bottle and then a bag of peas I found good to try and relieve the pain. My leg went numb to the ankle. I have found since 2011 Feb time when it happened to me that I need to go easy on the speed work or I can feel  the back particularly pounding down hills so tend to go steadier when coming down hills. You will be back dont worry. I became like an old man according to my OH when I had the same issue, she was helping me into the bath as I could barely stand up for two weeks.  The drugs they gave me started me hallucinating and feeling high as a kite so packed them in pretty quickly and used hot water bottle, hot patches that you can stick on your back too. Stay sane soon be February and you will regain the fitness no problem. Feel for you though.

Bo - they say it takes half as long, as it took to build up, to go back to square one - so since you trained for most of last year - you have 6 months - so RELAX a few weeks will not do you any harm and you will bounce back far quicker if you allow your body to have the rest it needs.  Hang in there - you'll be fine! ((( )))

I'm aching today - must have been all the wobbling around on one leg on the BOSU! On the plus side - I managed 2 full press ups with one hand on the BOSu, one on the floor, before reverting to 3/4 ones - small progress but progress none the less!

My pulse was a bit higher than usual during my run but my resting pulse is within normal range so I'm taking that to mean I'm still a bit tired after Sunday, then training on top of that, and not that I'm still ill.  Apart from a teeny sniffle - my cold has officially left the building!

Just for you SB shoe piccie.

BoD  - try not to think about cardio fitness loss, because unfortunately it can be depressing.  It won't take so long to get back in shape afterwards, because you are already fit and used to the training.  Whether targets need to be revised will depend on how long you are away from running.  The best thing (the best - not necessarily the easiest) is to first concentrate on getting well.

I'll bet there aren't many people on this forum who have't suffered a set-back of this nature, so you know we can all empathise with your situation.

Hope you get well soon.

Here, here - chin up Bo.

BoD I do feel for you too, and hope the acute phase passes quickly.  Following one of my more dramatic setbacks [involving multiple fractures], I was out for 6 months, but my 10K time on return was only 10% down.  That might sound a lot but I was delighted!

As soon as I could move at all I was doing everything possible though, and aggressive with the physio and interventions.

Speaking of which it does look like my foot thing is Mortons Neuroma.  I haven't been to the pod yet as I don't have insurance and the initial consultation with this guy is £255.  

Do any of you have insurance for running injuries?  I would love some advice on this as I spend a very high proportion of my discretionary income on treatments and therapies, the odd one of which would qualify if I had some sort of cover I'm sure. 

So I did a 7 mile pyramid run this morning - 0.5 very slow warm-up, 1.5 miles @ 10mm, then 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1 mins at 7:30 [last 2 reps @ 7:10], with easy recoveries of the same length, final mile @ 9:30. 

Then it was off for a Tui Na session, and foot is a lot easier as a result, he did get totally stuck in to the lump, and told me to take the orthoses out of my shoes! 

Cheers Oscarr I tend to agree with a couple of anecdotal exceptions - I happened upon the best sports injury guy ever once because he was visiting his mate at Guys for lunch.  That time I'd been sent to the Rheumatology dept!  He only does one Friday a month at an NHS clinic though.

I did email him today!

mcs I meant to say I am loving the shoes. 

purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr to the shoes - looky nicey mcs!

Good sesh reiki - hope you find a resolution soon.  Have no idea about insurances sorry.  I was covered for the years I was time trialling but (touch wood) never needed to claim.  What else did your Tui Na chap say - did he have an opinion on it?  Are your orthoses from a podiatrist or off the shelf? How did you feel after your run - how hard would you class that on a scale of what you believe you should be doing?  I'd be pretty happy with being able to complete that sesh without any undue after effects

BoD - I have maintained some fitness through swimming and some gym work. It isn't esay to rest from running but definately better than having a long term injury.

Great running going on!

mcs - enjoy your run in new shoes! I really likle my speedcross shoes, but don't wear them very often as run on the roads mostly in the winter.

I managed 12 miles this morning...very, very slowly..felt more like 24

Well SB, I reckon the Alter G is a lot easier, I really notice the difference with speedwork, and my legs are always absolutely fine after any kind of session on it, and overall I am continuing to class it as a good thing because it's allowing me to do so much more running specific training.

I'm doing 2 runs a week inc the long one *properly* as it were, and after all that's all I used to do.

My Tui Na guy says there's a blockage which he is remiving bit by bit, and that I shall not be needing injectons or surgery, carry on doing what I'm doing i.e. running, nourish my blood with squid and steak, don't ice, indeed he says only ever ice if there's visible evidence that blood is leaking , this on the basis of the red v white cell argument.

My orthoses are my 7th set from a podiatrist, I have different ones for walking / running, mainly because the first set from the latest podiatrist [the one with the 3D diagnostics!] gave me an additional knee problem, so my running ones have slightly less accentuated arch lift and heel lift.

It cost me a month's income for that little lot.

Today they are out which feels odd, yet not very considering how long it has been.  I went to PIlates, jogged to the train due to lateness and foot seems happier to be able to fan out.  

And my lovely consultant got back to me even though he's abroad for another 3 weeks, has told me who to see, or that he will sort me out same day upon his return!

That would be an injection or an op under local anaesthetic.  

So all in all I'm a bit confused.  I know there are often consequences to interventions and my thinking is more in tune with the chi philosophy - I know there's an imbalance that keeps manifesting in different ways, I just need to find it [4th go this week at Brain Training Strength and Power combo with stretches coming up soon!], but then again I want to get on with my training, painfree by preference.

Supposed to do 14 tomorrow and you now the weather here today is so reasonable I almost decided to crack on as it will be zero at best in the morning, but if you saw how hobbly my walking is you would disbelieve that assertion.  It was literally easier to jog this morning. 

I've just completed week five of my 18 week marathon schedule, and it was a week I had been dreading .  Today's run was 16m with the last 10m at marathon pace.  The first few miles were in heavy snow, then sleet, and finally rain before it stopped.  The snow didn't settle and I'm glad the ground wasn't icey.

My projected marathon pace is 9:09, but I wanted to get nearer to 9:00 for this run (though I doubted that I would). My mile splits for the run were:

Warm-up miles: 10:34/10:32/10:24/10:17/10:18/9:54
MP miles:  8:51/9:02/9:00/9:06/8:54/8:42/8:56/9:02/9:01/8:52 (average 8:57)

Chuffed to bits!  I even hit 9:01 in the fifteenth mile - up a long incline into a biting cold headwind that was relentless.  I drew strength from having run a faster paced threshold earlier in the week.

My heart rate range for MP miles is 153-168bpm. It peaked at 167bpm, and the averages per MP mile were:

148/152/149/153/156/154/154/159/162/160bpm

This is my highest mileage week ever (45m), and I'm feeling really happy about progress so far. Absolutely loving this plan! 

Next week is a recovery week, so I'll only have 80% of current mileage to do.  P&D should look up the word "recovery" in a dictionary IMHO 

Best of all is 100% for the first week of Jantastic!

Crikey Reikki.  You certainly can't be accused of not trying everything possible to find a solution.  I hope you find a resolution soon.  Preferably before you are broke (in the financial sense)!

Is the Alter-G the anti-gravity treadmill thingy?  Looks like something that astronauts would have used?  That's what I have had in mind whenever you have mentioned it.

Ten that is one cracking run.  

You may find yourself revising that target!

Ten - that's a great 16 miler with great pacing and splits - you must be really chuffed with this being still 13 weeks to go - a great base to build from

mcs - certainly wet my appetite for GG