Mon: 8.5 miles
Tue: 7 miles plus hill bursts
Wed: 9.5 miles, including 7X300 w/ 300 (90-95 sec) rec
Thu: 6 miles
Fri: 0 – Day Off, Knee
Sat: 0 – Day Off, Knee
Sun: 0 – Day Off, Knee
Total: 31 miles
After having to take a couple days off last week due to feeling rundown and burned out, this was supposed to be a week where I got back to normal and started making progress again. I had planned on easing my way back into things, meaning no doubles and a little lighter-than-usual on the workouts. The first few days went according to plan, only for me to run into trouble (literally) on Thursday, resulting in three days off and yet another poor week. That makes three down weeks in a row now, so at this point I’m definitely headed in the wrong direction.
The first couple days of the week I felt better than prior to the days off I took last week, but I still didn’t feel like I had my legs completely under me. I hit the 300m repeats workout Wednesday night not knowing what to expect, but it actually turned out fairly well. I wanted to be conservative throughout, so I was consistently a couple seconds slower than goal, but I still ran faster than what I was doing for this type of workout throughout the majority of this year. Additionally, while I was a little slower than goal and even a little slower than when I did this same workout six weeks ago, I felt smoother and more under control than I did then, which I took as a good sign.
My legs were pretty tired and a bit sore on Thursday, so I was easing my way into a run when about a mile in I stepped on something in the road that I couldn’t see in the dark and nearly went down. I immediately felt some pain in my left hip but thought I’d escaped without an issue as I continued to run. However, about a mile later, my left knee started to hurt and it got progressively worse the rest of the way. By the time I finished, I was in a significant amount of pain, and as I suspected would be the case, it tightened up even more on the ride home.
On Friday I was in a good bit of pain just walking around, in spite of the fact that I was icing and taking anti-inflammatories. By Saturday I was feeling better, and by Sunday I felt pretty good. My current plan is to do a test run on Monday, being sure to go shorter and easier than usual, then go from there. Hopefully this was just a very short setback, but it definitely was the last thing I needed at this point in time. It’s one thing to miss a couple days when training has been going great, but it’s another to miss a few when you’re training is already less than optimal, especially with the indoor track season only 5-6 weeks away. I’m currently trying to put a positive spin on it with the thought that maybe I needed a couple more days to recover from being run down anyway, and if I’m able to resume running this week without additional issues, I should be ok, but time will tell. Stay tuned.
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