Paul Petch

Running is rather humbling….

Week two….tick!

Week two of my training has been ticked off and to tell you the truth it has been bloody hard on my body. Cardio wise things are spot on- but I’ve been aching and hurting in places I had forgot about :D It’s really easy to get frustrated when things are not “just working” and in particular the 1hr point of my runs where the ITB right knee pain pretty much grinds me to a halt. The logical part of my brain informs me that I’ve started to ramp up the KM’s and it is going to hurt and that maybe I need a break- while the stubborn part of the brain is all for the fact that I should be able to run for longer than an hour.

Regardless of what I think and feel….it is a crushing blow to be outdoors with bags of energy and wanting to run much further but unable to do so. This situation is a first for me and to be honest quite tricky to deal with as I’m not used to my body being the limiting factor when it comes to the outdoors. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I’m struggling with a physical goal……and It’s making me feeling rather human after all :)

Another thing that has dawned on me is that since the SBS half-  on the 6th June I’ve not even taken anytime off from my running (which included 7 weeks of flat out training prior). Looking at the amount of KM’s that I’m running per week and cycling it’s no surprise that my poor body is crying out for a rest…….I must treat it better in the coming months or it will get messy. Thankfully, this week is my “rest week” where I half the amount of running that I’m doing….well actually….I’m going to only run once this week. Great timing.

Plans for next week

Week three will see some gym time to work on some key muscles in my legs to help with strength, endurance and muscle balancing. I’ve tried simple exercises at home- but they bore me silly. I’d rather combine them with my weekly tread mill jog and then spend some time on a machine or two to work some key muscles. I’m then super keen to work this into my weekly training plan.

I’m also booked in to get another opinion with regards to my pronation- as I feel that my issues have not been dealt with very well at all with my current podiatrist….call it gut instinct ;)

The weekend of the 22nd (two weeks away) I’ve also booked a session with Karen so that we can start to look at how I run off road and I have some questions too- in particular “How do you run down hill effectively?”.

I also want to stop the ITB pain in my right knee at the 1hr mark and start enjoying my running again- and if that means decreasing some KM’s- then so beit.

Most of all….I’m not going to let frustrations stop me achieving my goal!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 8:10 am and is filed under Thoughts & Training and tagged with coach, half marathon, ITB Syndrome, karen muller, podiatrist, runners knee, trail running. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.