Ouch My Foot
March 14, 2008
Good jog again today, Achilles tendon was on my mind when i went in and when i was done i was down with a sprained ankle. Nice steady pace as the previous jog through out and within the first 2 laps realized how important the breathing rhythm was. When i got it wrong i went into either oxygen deficiency or oxygen excess but when i got it just right i was effortlessly gliding along. Around the 15th lap my right inner knee joint started hurting but pushed through and now its fine. At the end of the run felt pain in my rear inner ankle and thought it was the Achilles tendon but the pain was localized in front and to the side of it. So applied some ice and hoping that its not a sprain, or not at least a severe one.
A Good Jog
March 12, 2008
Great run today, went in today with what appeared to be a strained Achilles tendon so went in apprehensive about that and about the shin splints from a couple of days ago. The most notable thing today was how effortless the jog was on my lungs, i tried out a 4:3 breathing pattern with big gulps and it worked like a charm, later it got morphed to 3:2:2:1 and then 2:2, but overall the only limiting factor for the run was the pain in my Achilles tendon. Started out at any easy pace unlike the other day and was able to maintain a steady pace right through the 20 laps around 1:25 – 1:30 per lap(only one lap cost 1:31). Exactly completed in 30 minutes. The Achilles tendon started acting up in the last 1/4th of the run but pushed through anyway, Later once i stopped running noticed it was really painful but after about 5 laps of cool down it had subsided to a tingle. Worried that the pain might be due to either shoes/Overpronation. Had a good pre-jog and post-jog stretch as well. Started holding each stretch position upto 20-30 seconds. Anyway pretty good day overall.
Shinnanigens
March 10, 2008
Hmmmmm quite an eventful jog today. Set out to do a minimum of 18laps and a max of 20 laps if nothing catastrophic happened. Wanted to be on pace for 18 laps in 25 minutes. Started out and my first lap pace was around 9kph with a lap time of 1:01 2-3 laps in i realized this pace will burn me out and if i don’t do immediate damage control 18 laps is a dream, so slowed down to a decent pace and kept it up more or less until the catastrophe finally came. My right shin started hurting like a bitch around lap 15(My best last week). And got progressively worse until a point where i was thinking of quitting(Stress fractures in the second week was playing on my mind). But i pushed through, though my lap times became abysmal , i still went on with the jog. Finally at the end of the 18th lap, stopped and started my cool down walk, only to realize i was limping because of my shin. Stress fracture and injury was going through my head, but the cool down was great in about 5 laps of walking. The pain had subsided(to a niggle, but its still very much there.). Finished off with another 6 laps of walking and that along with my beginning warm up brought me to 33 laps jog+walk for the day for a total of 5km at an average pace of 5kmph.
Broke 2
March 6, 2008
Today’s split was
2.25 km jog in 23 minutes – pace 6km/h
1.75 km walk 22 minutes – pace “who cares”.
Felt a niggle in my Achilles tendon but pushed through. Did a jog of 15 laps but hit a sort of wall around the 11th lap(stitch in my left ab), but pushed through it successfully. I was doing and average of 1:32 per lap.
Revelation
March 4, 2008
Today was a revelation. I could jog(at a minimum pace) for about 20 minutes, did not expect such a day on day improvement when the maximum single jog was 3 minutes something. Maintained good running form no longer leaning and looking down and the foot strike was also reasonably good being between heel and mid foot when i noticed. The shin pain from yesterday did was unnoticeable. Could have continued to jog for another 3 laps minimum but wanted to take it easy since its early days and too much of a good thing can be bad.
