Definitely feel a little adrift in my running and have almost since the marathon.
Shane Falco said:
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars.
Glory...lasts forever.
Well, I'll buy the last two, but the pain is getting really, really old. Every time I try to get back into a training regiment, I get sidelined on the long runs by nasty tightness in both lower legs. Yes, "just" tightness. That should be bearable, right? Man! Tighter, tighter, until gradually, nothing is really flexing. Then the gait starts to change and it all goes downhill. I know it will work itself out, but it's so frustrating to see my conditioning disintegrate. Now it will be a full ramp back up if I do another marathon this fall. Oh well, it is what it is.
I did manage to train pretty well for the Vander Dash 5k. I thought that was going to be a rinky dink little race, maybe 50 or 100 people.... Huh! There were over 700 people entered! I signed up just because it was my daughter's school and I thought it would be neat to do well with her watching. I was hoping to go sub 8s for the first time with a target of 'under 24:48'. I was ecstatic at the end - I crushed it! 23:37!! What a fantastic feeling. I don't know how I did overall since two weeks later, they still haven't posted results, but it was a win for me, that's for sure.
So now, I work on resolving my frigging leg issues....and get ready for the Peachtree!
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Back in the Saddle Again
I'm finally starting to feel 'whole' again! Yes, three months after the marathon, I'm still feeling the effects of it. How screwed up is that? Or more to the point, how screwed up is it that I still want to do another one this fall?
It's been my achilles tendon that has been nagging me the worst. I just hadn't been able to shake it up until now. I highly recommend a sports massage - that's what finally seemed to do the trick. Robin at Georgia Sports Massage (http://www.georgiasportsmassage.com) not only got things to loosen up, he also gave me some great stretches that have really helped - much more so than the standard ones I had been doing.
It's such a relief to run and not be concentrating on when/whether the pain is coming back! Well, I'll probably be thinking about whether it is coming back for a while yet, but hopefully HOPEFULLY I will be pleasantly surprised each time.
I had various plans about how this year would start off in terms of race prep, and none have panned out. First thought was a spring marathon which died on the vine shortly after my fall one finished. There's something about intense pain that makes you rethink things... I was also considering the ING half, but I don't want to run it unless I can significantly better my time from last year. With the huge decrease in training I've had because of the injuries, that's just not going to happen.
Continuing to drop down the spectrum, I wanted to run a Peachtree qualifier 10k at a good enough pace to move me up in the pack a little bit in July. That's certainly still in the cards but I need to keep an eye on the deadline for those. Running the Peachtree is still definitely something I want to do this year, particularly since it was originally my ultimate goal when I started running...This one's for you dad!
But for now, I'm going with the least common denominator and training for a 5k in March. It's a minor little race but it's through my daughter's school so that's a really big incentive to run it well. There's nothing like knowing my family is at the finish line to give me some extra energy! We'll see how it goes, but hopefully I can start putting full effort into my training again.
Here's to injury-free running!
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It's been my achilles tendon that has been nagging me the worst. I just hadn't been able to shake it up until now. I highly recommend a sports massage - that's what finally seemed to do the trick. Robin at Georgia Sports Massage (http://www.georgiasportsmassage.com) not only got things to loosen up, he also gave me some great stretches that have really helped - much more so than the standard ones I had been doing.
It's such a relief to run and not be concentrating on when/whether the pain is coming back! Well, I'll probably be thinking about whether it is coming back for a while yet, but hopefully HOPEFULLY I will be pleasantly surprised each time.
I had various plans about how this year would start off in terms of race prep, and none have panned out. First thought was a spring marathon which died on the vine shortly after my fall one finished. There's something about intense pain that makes you rethink things... I was also considering the ING half, but I don't want to run it unless I can significantly better my time from last year. With the huge decrease in training I've had because of the injuries, that's just not going to happen.
Continuing to drop down the spectrum, I wanted to run a Peachtree qualifier 10k at a good enough pace to move me up in the pack a little bit in July. That's certainly still in the cards but I need to keep an eye on the deadline for those. Running the Peachtree is still definitely something I want to do this year, particularly since it was originally my ultimate goal when I started running...This one's for you dad!
But for now, I'm going with the least common denominator and training for a 5k in March. It's a minor little race but it's through my daughter's school so that's a really big incentive to run it well. There's nothing like knowing my family is at the finish line to give me some extra energy! We'll see how it goes, but hopefully I can start putting full effort into my training again.
Here's to injury-free running!
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Marine Corps Marathon
I DID IT!! 26.2 miles...actually 26.84 miles according to my Garmin. Does that mean the course was long? Nope, it means that over the course of 26.2 miles, if you weave around people and don't take the shortest distance between two points at every turn, you can add a full 6/10 of a mile on to your race. I would dearly have loved to run 6/10 of a mile less...
**How pathetic is it that I am finally geting back to this post a full two months later......**
It changes the feelings and thoughts when you've had a couple of months to dwell on/think about about them...and for the pain to go away! It's hard to write about it now actually. It was wonderful and painful and emotional and I was desperately glad to be done at the end. It did take a couple of days before I said I wanted to do it again...
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