Training Log Archive: AliC

Cold Ash, OUOC Training Day

Training day was awesome, (ok, a little less rain in the afternoon would have been nice!), so frustrating to have to walk! But I did. Not much pain behind knee, but sore in bum, where hamstring also attaches, feel like it's really the tendons on either side of the hamstring that are most upset at me... working on healing!!!

And, have been provisionally named to Blues cross-country team. Real descision comes next weekend. I just have to keep my head screwed on right about it, and not overdo it trying to get fit yet. Wednesday I get to try jogging for 10 minutes. No jogging/running before that! Probably take tomorrow completely off besides circuits (and avoid leg stuff then), as was walking quite a bit today.

Went out after lunch too, on the first-leg-relay-simulation training, but spent my time shepperding newbies as it was a bit too technically difficult... Never got to the other side of the road- very cool area though, totally worth coming back!

Up to shotover to marshall the RAF match. Not counting the cycle down... =)

Lots of talk about what should be done about selecting the women's blues team... we'll see. I still can't run. Doing lots of stretching, icing, and hoping!!!

Unhappy. Got to 14.01 before behind knee-hamstring-thing tweaked. Boo.
Then just really easily jogged home.

Not racing tomorrow. =(

C • Oi you! 2

Another gym day. But hamstring is now hurting worse afterwards than it has been. Maybe because physio had to poke around quite a bit to figure it out last night.

Tomorrow is off for sure. (Someone scream at me if I can't fight the temptation to train!) Maybe Friday too. I'd love to be able to run Sat, but healing is the important thing.

Bah. Bah. Bah.

Find it very hard to really work on this machine... or rather, its fine for getting level 2 in, but very difficult to do intervals.

As steep as treadmill would go, walking at 5.7 mph or so. Actually good work!!

Did one power 20 at around 1:50, and a 500 at around 1:58. Toughish! Clearly not in rowing shape, which is understandable, actually.

Physio Visit

So, apparently have a micro-torn medial hamstring. Argh!!! Not cool. When asked, physio thought it was a really, really bad idea to try racing this Saturday. I probably need to ease into real running (ie. striding out, which is the problem motion) starting mid-next week, then gradually increase, not race 6k all out on Saturday.

Unfortunately, I don't have tons of choice. The cross-country women don't have a strong 4th scorer for blues varsity, and I would probably be able to be there, unless I'm remarkable off my usual fitness (which I'd admit, seems a possibility after all these silly injuries!). Playing with ideas in my mind. May try racing and then just quick if I feel the pain, because then I've done everything I can to try to make blues, and don't think it would make things much worse....

What to do!?!?! And how in the world did the november classic cause this, when I was fine doing the OMM?!?!

C • Be careful! 1

Circuits! Lots of folk today... Knee not too sore while doing stuff, running seem to be the one thing that really gets it.