Good morning
Lyrics: kicking myself now having googled them! My first attempt on google with these produced the Runners World Daily Thread for 13th January - whatever that is!
M. It's good for you that your getting back to completing LSRs again. I wouldn't worry too much about a few lonely miles - I had lots of those when I started running long with the club, but eventually they become less and less frequent.
Alehouse: You seem to be making progress. Has anybody suggested the importance of stretching to you yet?
LMH: glad you enjoyed your "why I run day".
My injury problems are still with me. I can manage a couple of miles before the calf gets too uncomfortable, but then it takes two days until the soreness subsides. Also my hamstring is also still problematic, though I takes more than two miles of running to really set it off. I'm convinced from previous experience that the two issues (a soft tissue issue...bless you!) are connected and stem from misalligned pelvis, but current (well, current no more) physio doesn't agree - unfortunately my purse isn't robust enough to finance his, to date, fruitless investigations into what may be the cause. I've got an appointment with Mark Buckingham, whom I believe Alehouse knows of, and who has fixed me in the past. Unfortunately its a five week wait. In the meantime I'll go and get some massage to the calf as I'm sure there's some scar tissue lurking there, which if dealt with may enable me to a little bit of running on it.
In the meantime I've dug a bike out of the shed - a Dawes hybrid, nice and robust but not exactly built for speed. That's not necessarily a bad thing as my bike skills aren't particularly good. I'm riding it at about 15mph keeping the cadence around 90 rpm and trying not to put too much stress on my legs, so not pushing the gears. I'm getting out every day on it for about the same time as I would spend running and am covering about twice the distance (two bike miles equals one running mile?). I wore the HRM this morning and was recording a rate of 128-132bpm. To put this into some context my max HR (measured nine years ago at age 55) was 160, its likely to be a bit lower and also I believe that MHR achievable on the bike is about 10bpm lower than for running. This suggests that I'm operating at about 81-83% of running MHR at a cadence consistant with running....so hopefully I can maintain my CV levels.
Anyway its better than sulking
