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tang1 wrote: »

Fantastic performance and throughly well deserved considering the excellent training you put in. It sounds like some experience. How did wearing racers all last summer contribute to your injury if you dont mind me asking? I only ever wear racers and this may be a cause for my injury issues.

Cheers.

It was due to the way I was landing. My ankle was almost at 45 degrees upon landing which caused the tendons on the outside of my leg to strain and it stood out straight away that I needed a bit of support. I haven't have any recurrence since despite 2 marathons and 1100 miles. I wouldn't even wear the racers when putting out the bin!

cianc wrote: »

Nicely done. Reckon you can put the glute/hamstring issue to rest with a bit more time and work? Like many others here I'm pretty sure you have a substantially faster time in you if you wanted it and the planets aligned just right

I'm starting yoga next week with a group made up mostly of runners (the instructor is a runner himself). I reckon it will do me the world of good. The hamstring is a definite problem but my physio reckons it's all down to a glute weakness. Apparently the muscle range is meant to fire hamstring, glute, back in that order. Mine fires hamstring, back, glute. So if I fix that it should help when I'm strengthening my hamstring.

I probably won't do another marathon this year. I want to focus on the shorter , faster stuff for a while mixed with some proper cycling.

AuldManKing wrote: »

Great report, captured the mood brialliantly. Really makes me and Mrs AMK want to be at a Boardsie mass participation event!!

Great racing, the Glute and hamstring thing is very interesting, a guy I work with ran 2:52 and has got hammy issues in every marathon he does. He's putting it down to a desk job and inherent weakness in key muscles as a result. Makes sense.

The yoga gig seems the way to go. Must look up similar myself.

Must organise our schedules to get a race together during the year.

Yeah it helped her lose the notion that boards people are all trench coat wearing weirdos. We are now simply weirdos!!!


Yeah we'll definitely plan a race during the summer

belcarra wrote: »

Gavlor, I'm late getting the congratulations in but had to wait until the Toffeemen lost and Arsenal regained 4th spot just to balance out all the karma!
Anyways, well done on a great performance and excellent race report.

One thing that you might synopsize for me:
I have been dealing with a dodgy hamstring for the past ten days and it's now in danger of scuppering my goal marathon in 10 days time.
Do you have any advice given you had similar issues but came out the far side with a shiny PB? Any feedback at all would be great.

Well done again!

When you've supported Everton for as long as I have you get used to disappointment!

It's a tough one. My hamstring felt worse when it went in Dublin than on Sunday. It could be down to some of the strength work I did on it and the glute (supermans, bridge lifts, donkey kicks etc) but I also had it taped up with K-tape this time and wore my skins compression shorts. Maybe that helped, maybe it didn't.

I also reckon the lack of running in the last week - 10 days helped me finish the marathon as I was very fresh with little or no hamstring/glute pain going into the weekend.

Finally, if I hadn't the bit of time banked I wouldn't have got going again. I took a huge psychological blow when I felt it going and my only saving grace was the time cushion. I leaned on the one bit of positivity that I could muster up.

RedRunner wrote: »

Made a batch of your flapjacks yesterday and put a wooden bed together without instructions! Not quite a domestic God just yet but earning some brownie points for next running trip...to Paris next month.
Flapjacks were nice btw.Had to substitute golden syrup for maple though but that suited my sweet tooth.

Your legs feeling any way normal yet?
Great result for Reds today.

It's on a plate for Liverpool now, sickens me but they deserve it. Smashing style of football this year, a bit like as if Rodgers is controlling the team via FIFA 14 on a games console!

I haven't ran since last week. my hip and glute are in a jock. Don't run a marathon whilst carrying an injury kids!
Back in with physio next week and starting yoga on Thursday.

Anyone reading this on Saturday night should put on channel 4 for a great stone roses documentary!