What a disastrous week. Pre-race planning turned on its head.
Having had a good enough race on Sunday, the cramp just would not abate at all despite the effort of ibuprofen, warm baths, ice, massage, deep heat and rest. Good news story was that having suffered from a lower lumber ache, "tight" gluts and more worryingly pins and needles in my feet for 2 weeks since my trip on those planes to Tulsa, I visited an Osteo who, with a push and pull, got rid of it all. Back to normal (just the calf to deal with.)
I did try some running:
Mon: 3m at 10min mile recovery pace (no recovery achieved),
Tues: 7m very easy jog with AROs
Thurs: 4m easy (when I should have been doing the 5k race).
You may not think this an easy week but had already achieved 180 miles in March - my highest ever tally.
By Fri I was reconciled to the fact that I would get some cross training in whilst away with Kate for an Anniversary celebration weekend (without kids who kindly being looked after by their Aunty Sal.)
To the cross training: having done a good 1hr 20mins already I jumped on the old rowing machine one more time to really give it some welly and get the lungs working. One, two, ping.... completely incapacitated with Kate trying to look for emergency Osteopaths in Bournemouth. No such luck.
Revisit to the Osteo planned for Monday morning - 2 weeks to go and got to get this sorted out.....
(btw - for those thinking it, Kate does not have a pet name from me of "the old rowing machine" - it really was an old rowing machine.)
Having had a good enough race on Sunday, the cramp just would not abate at all despite the effort of ibuprofen, warm baths, ice, massage, deep heat and rest. Good news story was that having suffered from a lower lumber ache, "tight" gluts and more worryingly pins and needles in my feet for 2 weeks since my trip on those planes to Tulsa, I visited an Osteo who, with a push and pull, got rid of it all. Back to normal (just the calf to deal with.)
I did try some running:
Mon: 3m at 10min mile recovery pace (no recovery achieved),
Tues: 7m very easy jog with AROs
Thurs: 4m easy (when I should have been doing the 5k race).
You may not think this an easy week but had already achieved 180 miles in March - my highest ever tally.
By Fri I was reconciled to the fact that I would get some cross training in whilst away with Kate for an Anniversary celebration weekend (without kids who kindly being looked after by their Aunty Sal.)
To the cross training: having done a good 1hr 20mins already I jumped on the old rowing machine one more time to really give it some welly and get the lungs working. One, two, ping.... completely incapacitated with Kate trying to look for emergency Osteopaths in Bournemouth. No such luck.
Revisit to the Osteo planned for Monday morning - 2 weeks to go and got to get this sorted out.....
(btw - for those thinking it, Kate does not have a pet name from me of "the old rowing machine" - it really was an old rowing machine.)
You're lucky she never reads this..
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