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.
Long Day
March 7, 2008
Good cycling today at a standard cadence. Got rid of the back pack and the back pain was in check too. Mouth got really dry and i got really thirsty during the fourth lap(should i get a bottle?). Traffic was good too, less compared to my earlier encounter. Came home and finished up with a 3km walk, worked up quite an appetite, must fill the void ciao.
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.
