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Injured - How to keep up mileage

  • 30-01-2014 12:26pm
    #1
    pudgeydev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭


    Hey all,

    Planning on doing the Barca Marathon on 16th March. Having trouble with my heel over the last week but I really need to keep up the mileage or I won't have any chance of being fit to run a full marathon.

    Has anyone got similar experience? Did you use bike/cross trainer? If so, do you have a ration. 1mile running =1.5 on crosstrainer or anything like that??

    Any advice welcome!


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  • #2
    pistol_75
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭pistol_75


    pudgeydev wrote: »
    Hey all,

    Planning on doing the Barca Marathon on 16th March. Having trouble with my heel over the last week but I really need to keep up the mileage or I won't have any chance of being fit to run a full marathon.

    Has anyone got similar experience? Did you use bike/cross trainer? If so, do you have a ration. 1mile running =1.5 on crosstrainer or anything like that??

    Any advice welcome!

    The first thing to do would be to get the injury checked out to find out the extent of it if you have not already done this.


  • #3
    ecoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,762 ✭✭✭✭ecoli


    pudgeydev wrote: »
    Hey all,

    Planning on doing the Barca Marathon on 16th March. Having trouble with my heel over the last week but I really need to keep up the mileage or I won't have any chance of being fit to run a full marathon.

    Has anyone got similar experience? Did you use bike/cross trainer? If so, do you have a ration. 1mile running =1.5 on crosstrainer or anything like that??

    Any advice welcome!

    +1 on getting it looked at. No point in starting cross training if the cross training itself is going to exasperate the symptoms. Also sometimes an injury might be easily treatable and as such you could be back doing runs quicker than you initially thought.

    One race is not the be all and end all if it ends up worse case better to get it looked at an properly treated rather than training true and causing more serious or long term damage for the sake of one race.


  • #4
    pudgeydev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭pudgeydev


    Thanks guys, it's a reoccurrance of a heel injury. I had a steroid injection Jan last year which cleared it up. Had another injection a few weeks ago but I've run on it too soon so am trying to rest it. I have zero pain on a cross trainer or on a bike - but when I'm bending the foot it aggravates the situation.


  • #5
    Slow_Runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 606 ✭✭✭Slow_Runner


    I'm in the same boat as the OP. I started my training plan for Barca a week early just in case and last week got a little niggle in my PT tendon (previous injury). Took a few days off training and straight to the physio for some dry needling. Should be back on track after tomorrow. Important thing is to get it seen to as quickly as possible, best of luck and see you there!
    When I was injured before I replaced the running with cycling, using time instead of distance, ie 2 hour long run was now 2 hour bike - not equal I know but you just need to keep the fitness levels up.


  • #6
    Clearlier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭Clearlier


    pudgeydev wrote: »
    Hey all,

    Planning on doing the Barca Marathon on 16th March. Having trouble with my heel over the last week but I really need to keep up the mileage or I won't have any chance of being fit to run a full marathon.

    Has anyone got similar experience? Did you use bike/cross trainer? If so, do you have a ration. 1mile running =1.5 on crosstrainer or anything like that??

    Any advice welcome!

    First off, accept that you're injured and that it's going to have an impact on your performance.
    Second, sort out your injury, work out what you can do to promote healing and do it.
    Third work out what cross training you can do that will not aggravate the injury.
    Fourth, ease back into things - do not go hell for leather to make up lost time. The time is lost, trying to make it up will just result in another injury.

    On cross training (assuming that your injury allows it) the best option is an alter-g but you need to be very lucky or very wealthy to have access to one of those. The next best option is water running - it's pretty tedious though. After that I prefer cycling to the elliptical as I think that the elliptical is too close to running and can have a negative impact on your running form. Rowing is good provided you have both the technique and flexibility to do it properly. If you haven't been show how to do it properly (rowers are good, gym instructors are not IME) then you'll be at high risk of a lower back injury.


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  • #7
    pudgeydev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭pudgeydev


    Thanks for the advice all. I've been minding it for the last while, worked on the cross trainer and the bike over the weekend.

    Did 1 hour cross trainer
    1/2 hour bike
    1 hour cross trainer

    THE most boring 150minutes of my life!

    Did a bit of running on the tread mill today without feeling the pain. I'll mind it tomorrow and go again on it Wednesday. Hopefully it won't rule me out altogether!


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