15-04-2014, 10:26 AM
Hi there!
It`s been a while since last time I checked in. However, with the spring time comes the motivation, and the running season here in Norway is now in its early stage. Inspired by the good progression made in 2013, I have som aspirations also for 2014
So I thought I was a good day to drop by, and perhaps to pick up a few advices
I have a 10 k race coming up 26th April. The plan was to follow the cycle with a few adjustments. So I have done, but now my legs are quite sore. I`ll return to that in a minute, but let me first briefly sum up what`s been going down since last year.
The winter season in short: Had some trouble with achilles (both legs) from late november. Probably due to overuse / to much running on concrete with too light shoes in the late autumn 2013.
After this happened, I turned to in door cycling for a couple of months, with cross country skiing taking over as the main activity from mid January. After two and half months of quite frequent cross country skiing, with a gradual transition to running (started with weekly tread mill runs from mid February), I am now feeling quite strong, but also vulnerable.
During the warly spring /late winter, I began putting in gradually more running on tread mill (intervalls mostly). I`ve been quite patient and careful, of course as I know achilles trouble might be a quite prolonged issue.
Anyway, I`ve been feeling stronger and the tenderness and pain has more or less vanished. So I felt ready to step it up again.
I wanted to try out the monstrous 5x2k session one time before hitting on the cycle. And I was surprised to see how easily the pace came. I had no trouble doing the sessions in a sub 3.50 pr k speed, which was in fact a marked progression compared with last years 2x5k for me.
So I guess the strongness I felt inspired me to put on a bit too much effort. I averaged around 3.45 pr k for the whole session, with at least 2 kms sub 3.40. Afterwords my calves were sore as never before:duh: I really had the most tight calves for days, and actually still more or less suffers from this overzealous session, almost 2 weeks later...
When I last week started "officially" on the cycle, I had some real trouble with the 2x5k session (which was now 6 days after the one I referred to above). Legs were more tight than I had thought. The soreness in the calves had not disappeard. However, stubborn as I might be, I went through with the session, still managing to keep all rounds below or around 3.50.
Again it "paid of" in prolonged soreness...
The Long run I postponed I had to quit a bit earlier than planned. Also yesterday, I ran 10 k, in a quite easy speed (around 5.00 pr k), and the tightness/soreness was still very much there.
Sunday I tried to massage myself with foam rollers. Don`t know if it helped. I also have been using some antiinflammatory gel (Ibux) for a couple of days now.
Big question is: How would you suggest going forward from here? I`m afraid the answer is complete rest, but I really want to go through with the cycle, also getting in at least the 6x1k session. It`s actually scheduled for today, so I have for the moment decided to postpone it until tomorrow.
The big goal is sub 39 on April 26th, and I feel that I need to keep on moving if I`m going to be able.
All the bests!
NR
It`s been a while since last time I checked in. However, with the spring time comes the motivation, and the running season here in Norway is now in its early stage. Inspired by the good progression made in 2013, I have som aspirations also for 2014
So I thought I was a good day to drop by, and perhaps to pick up a few advices
I have a 10 k race coming up 26th April. The plan was to follow the cycle with a few adjustments. So I have done, but now my legs are quite sore. I`ll return to that in a minute, but let me first briefly sum up what`s been going down since last year.
The winter season in short: Had some trouble with achilles (both legs) from late november. Probably due to overuse / to much running on concrete with too light shoes in the late autumn 2013.
After this happened, I turned to in door cycling for a couple of months, with cross country skiing taking over as the main activity from mid January. After two and half months of quite frequent cross country skiing, with a gradual transition to running (started with weekly tread mill runs from mid February), I am now feeling quite strong, but also vulnerable.
During the warly spring /late winter, I began putting in gradually more running on tread mill (intervalls mostly). I`ve been quite patient and careful, of course as I know achilles trouble might be a quite prolonged issue.
Anyway, I`ve been feeling stronger and the tenderness and pain has more or less vanished. So I felt ready to step it up again.
I wanted to try out the monstrous 5x2k session one time before hitting on the cycle. And I was surprised to see how easily the pace came. I had no trouble doing the sessions in a sub 3.50 pr k speed, which was in fact a marked progression compared with last years 2x5k for me.
So I guess the strongness I felt inspired me to put on a bit too much effort. I averaged around 3.45 pr k for the whole session, with at least 2 kms sub 3.40. Afterwords my calves were sore as never before:duh: I really had the most tight calves for days, and actually still more or less suffers from this overzealous session, almost 2 weeks later...
When I last week started "officially" on the cycle, I had some real trouble with the 2x5k session (which was now 6 days after the one I referred to above). Legs were more tight than I had thought. The soreness in the calves had not disappeard. However, stubborn as I might be, I went through with the session, still managing to keep all rounds below or around 3.50.
Again it "paid of" in prolonged soreness...
The Long run I postponed I had to quit a bit earlier than planned. Also yesterday, I ran 10 k, in a quite easy speed (around 5.00 pr k), and the tightness/soreness was still very much there.
Sunday I tried to massage myself with foam rollers. Don`t know if it helped. I also have been using some antiinflammatory gel (Ibux) for a couple of days now.
Big question is: How would you suggest going forward from here? I`m afraid the answer is complete rest, but I really want to go through with the cycle, also getting in at least the 6x1k session. It`s actually scheduled for today, so I have for the moment decided to postpone it until tomorrow.
The big goal is sub 39 on April 26th, and I feel that I need to keep on moving if I`m going to be able.
All the bests!
NR