Finally got the internet sorted in new house :)
Unfortunately have had achilles tendonitis since the 23/24 Sept - I've stopped running training and been doing cycling and swimming instead (unfortunately these aren't really cardio for me since I don't have muscles in the right places, so they give up before my lungs do) to try and maintain my fitness a bit. Been icing and stretching lots every day which has definitely been helping. As has the max strength ibuprofen gel I've used for the few bits of o-ing I've done.
Suspect part cause at least is the inov8 road-x 155g shoes...clearly not enough cushioning there (literally zero) - probably too much of a change from adidas adizero adios which I usually run in. So I won't be wearing those again! Shout if you want a pair (I'm sure they don't injure
everyone.
So what have I done...
(1) evening jog on 19th since missed training on mon+wed due to moving house
(2) crook peak cake race - really tough at the start but great views, did pretty well and pleased with position/time (21:59; about 15th or something)
(3) parkrun PB at little stoke; 1809. working on cornering technique worked!
(4)Englefield 10k - achilles was hurting a bit before this, but this made it much worse! probably shouldn't have gone. came 3rd but was in quite a lot of pain. not much difference made to time though; just over 40 for all-grass with hills, pretty pleased
(5)didcot urban - definitely shouldn't have done this. actually crying with pain on a few legs. came 2nd with a pretty clean run but losing about 40s/km in speed.
(6) went swimming - 60 * 25m. ached.
(7) prologue from the sprint at bath uni - really good course, lots of short legs kept you concentrating. Made some small mistakes (14 looked at control on wrong building, 17 ran past tree) but otherwise fairly good, still painful though, can't run quite how I usually would since that makes hurt more
(8) bristol urban adventure challenge - unfortunately had to miss final to go to this instead, bit of a let-down since my team lost; hoped it would have o elements but it was more finding places and then answering crytpic
questions.at least learnt never to give up o for anything else!
(9) bath urban - again, good course, nice to see the sights. again a bit painful though although the double strength (10%) ibuprofen gel helped numb the pain a bit; still making it a bit hard to concentrate on the navigation. wrong path (too low) on 6, bad route to 8(S first), bad route to 11 (tunnel) and then disastrous 15 (on wrong level) and 16 (came out way came in). 15 was annoying because had read control description and knew it was going to be on top of something, but assumed dotted lines would be tunnel (ie underground) and that the control would be at street level (but above the tunnel). clearly wrong about this! but not sure you can tell just from the map. however coming out the same way was my fault, since map was obvious once you were there. otherwise fine I think.
(10) also done about 20k of cycling, slowly, on 15 year old mountain bike. sore in many places now.
Hope achilles ok for this weekend! Luckily they are both short and the middle distance is off road.