Wishful thinking

Kander

Week 26th - 2nd May
Weight loss = 0.0 kg (3.1 total)

Week 4 of the Faster road racing 10km plan

I went into this week knowing that I had to do everything I could to help my shins recover. I had missed a session last week which was due to be a peak week in terms of distance and intensity. While I knew it had to be skipped I didn't want it to happen again if I could avoid it. K-tape / Ice / Ibuprofen / foam roller / Massage gun were all used.

Running wise it was a pretty boring week. It was all done on the treadmill while watching Netflix. Started watching Narcos but I'm not sure I'll stick with it.

Tue: General aerobic 11 km
Wed: General aerobic 11 km with 4 × 200 m @ 800 m to mile race pace
Fri: General aerobic 11 km
Sun: General aerobic 14 km

Exactly as the plan said with no more or less. The shin splints went from a very definite sharp pain to a dull ache over the course of the week.

Next week - I am going to supplement running with some added cycling on my turbo trainer. At least if I'm doing the bare minimum of the plan I can get in some added cardio time. Just some base building Z2.

Kander

Week 3rd - 9th May
Weight change = +0.2 kg ( 2.9 total lost)

Week 5 of the Faster road racing 10km plan

I started off the week thinking I was in a good place after some needed recovery. I was happy in my decision to add in some cycling on trainer road to bulk out the cardio. I did a ramp test in my recovery week to give me my current FTP. 50 lower than a year ago

I am hoping to loosly follow the low hours super sweet spot training and match them up to my tougher Tue, Thurs & Sun runs.

Tue
Cycling 60 min on the Super sweet spot plan
Running 11km with strides. This was done on the treadmill and I was fairly happy with how things went. Shins were aching afterwards so I spent some time afterwards stretching my calves and icing.

Wed
Running: 5km Recovery. On the treadmill my shins were sore on each foot strike. Glad not to be doing any effort

Thurs
Cycling: 60 min on the Super sweet spot plan
Running: Plan was to do 13km with 5 X 1000m at 3-5km race effort. I only managed 3km on the Treadmill before I quit. My calves were a ball of knots and I couldn't stretch them out. They were putting more pressure on my shins.

Sat
Running: Reattempted Thursday interval session which went much better. Hit all race pace efforts in both time and Heart rate. Added a little more distance for warm up and cooldown. Total 14km

Sun
Cycling: 90 min on the Super sweet spot plan
Running: Endurance session that was down for 16km but I finished up at 12km. The addition of the longer cycle just had me energy tired and I reached the point were i didn't want to continue. Still happy with a solid days training.

Next week - I am going to have to take each week as it comes as my shin splints aren't easing up. If i don't see any improvement this week I am going to stop the higher intensity workout and just go back to easy base work. If that doesn't work again then I might pull the plug altogether for a couple of weeks

Kander

Not much typing needed this week.

My shins splints got to the stage where they were causing my gait and stride to change so I knew I needed to take a break. I'm giving myself two weeks fully off running before I try again.

Cycling: I did 3 turbo session over the week. Some productive sweet spot training that I'm hoping will hold onto some of my fitness. 3 1/2 hours total.

S&C: After cycling I did some simple Kettlebell work outs.

Kander

Going to have to park up training and this log for awhile. Involved in a car accident over the weekend which will see me out of action for awhile.

Yay to 2021 :rolleyes:

Comic Book Guy

Kander wrote: »

Going to have to park up training and this log for awhile. Involved in a car accident over the weekend which will see me out of action for awhile.

Yay to 2021 :rolleyes:

Flip, hope ya are ok and nothing too serious.

Mr. Guappa

Kander wrote: »

Going to have to park up training and this log for awhile. Involved in a car accident over the weekend which will see me out of action for awhile.

Yay to 2021 :rolleyes:

Jeepers. Hope it's nothing too serious.

Kander

Nothing serious serious but I wont be able to run for awhile really. I'm disappointed also because my shin splints recovered amazingly and I was planning on getting back on the road this week running. The cycling for two weeks kept me sane and was a nice change up.

And my Endorphin Speeds arrived and I was itching to try them out

Laineyfrecks

Sorry to hear this! Wishing you a speedy recovery!