Hi Ed,
Thanks again for the reply,
I had really tight calves about a year ago which then developed into shin splints and a grade 1 bone strain, (I don't know what that is exactly-but it sounds good. I had a few pictures taken in an nuclear medicine lab to confirm this.) The doc thought that I might have also been experiencing high compartmental pressure in the calve muscle compartments. I didn't really understand this concept completely but I think that this was due to lots of fluid in the muscle compartments making the muscles very stiff. Difficult to walk not to mind run at its worst. Thankfully that problem and the shin splints have completely cleared up. Too much, or silly training before I was ready.
About seven months ago I fell off of quite a big boat, actually I was pushed but as there was drink involved it was hard to blame the poor guy who thought that pushing me was a good idea at the time. Hi Jinx's gone wrong! I hit my right knee right under the knee cap off of the boats railing on the lower deck on the way to the water. :duh: It is slow to clear up, but it is much better since the steroid treatment. We have an absolutely great doc here who has done the comrades himself. He seems to think that the knee is OK but the tendon will need time. He also said I should exercise. I was originally really worried as I though the worst.
I would be delighted if you could include me in whatever training that YOU deem fit. I would love to try day III of the programme the 5 x 2000M tomorrow. I know I am going to fall well short of the bench mark but I really liked the progress that some of you other students have made and I would like to start running well again. At the moment I am a few KG overweight, maybe 5-7 KG over ideal fighting weight. My other goal is that I would love to run a cross country race again in either Ireland or in the UK. I You Tubed some XC recently and I am way off of that standard right now. A guy can dream I suppose.
When I mentioned spins, I was referring to some faster runs. A little bit of Irish slang! Apologies..:taped:
I will sign up for the Dubai 10K on Jan 21st. I don't expect to break 40mins then but a nudge in the right direction would be most satisfying.
Thank you again for the time you have taken to answer my post and for your encouragement.
best regards
Tortoise.
Thanks again for the reply,
I had really tight calves about a year ago which then developed into shin splints and a grade 1 bone strain, (I don't know what that is exactly-but it sounds good. I had a few pictures taken in an nuclear medicine lab to confirm this.) The doc thought that I might have also been experiencing high compartmental pressure in the calve muscle compartments. I didn't really understand this concept completely but I think that this was due to lots of fluid in the muscle compartments making the muscles very stiff. Difficult to walk not to mind run at its worst. Thankfully that problem and the shin splints have completely cleared up. Too much, or silly training before I was ready.
About seven months ago I fell off of quite a big boat, actually I was pushed but as there was drink involved it was hard to blame the poor guy who thought that pushing me was a good idea at the time. Hi Jinx's gone wrong! I hit my right knee right under the knee cap off of the boats railing on the lower deck on the way to the water. :duh: It is slow to clear up, but it is much better since the steroid treatment. We have an absolutely great doc here who has done the comrades himself. He seems to think that the knee is OK but the tendon will need time. He also said I should exercise. I was originally really worried as I though the worst.
I would be delighted if you could include me in whatever training that YOU deem fit. I would love to try day III of the programme the 5 x 2000M tomorrow. I know I am going to fall well short of the bench mark but I really liked the progress that some of you other students have made and I would like to start running well again. At the moment I am a few KG overweight, maybe 5-7 KG over ideal fighting weight. My other goal is that I would love to run a cross country race again in either Ireland or in the UK. I You Tubed some XC recently and I am way off of that standard right now. A guy can dream I suppose.
When I mentioned spins, I was referring to some faster runs. A little bit of Irish slang! Apologies..:taped:
I will sign up for the Dubai 10K on Jan 21st. I don't expect to break 40mins then but a nudge in the right direction would be most satisfying.
Thank you again for the time you have taken to answer my post and for your encouragement.
best regards
Tortoise.