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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭DULLAHAN2


    I've been off my feet for nearly 2 weeks. .

    I am nearly in the same boat as yourself i was meant to be off running for 2 weeks but couldnt stand it after a week a 3 days i had to go for a 5k run. I am fairly certain i shouldnt have as i had a couple minor relaspes.

    Ya should still do the 5 k if your able to run and just go slowly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    DULLAHAN2 wrote: »
    Ya should still do the 5 k if your able to run and just go slowly

    Going slowly in a 5k kinda defeats the purpose, tbh! I think I might just have a nice easy run up here on Sunday morning, and shoot for a PB at the Rás UCD on the 27th. Time to lay off the chocolate! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Argh. Not all my test results are back, and the doctors are being really conservative about when I'm able to get back running. I'm not allowed to run this weekend, and I have to ring them on Monday to see if the test results are back then. I'm not even allowed to do any other exercise apart from gentle walking.

    Time to go cry into my DCM '09 shirt, I suppose. Doctor nearly shat a brick when I said I wanted to do it again this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭earnyourturns


    Oh dear...

    Well on the plus side you've been training and studying and going for it so hard all year that hopefully a bit of enforced rest will prove just the ticket.

    It's crazy though isn't it how much our perspective on things can change! When I was in school wild horses couldn't have made me run voluntarily. Now I totally understand your frustration and dismay at not being able to exercise for a week or two! I'd be climbing up the walls as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Hopefully all of this will be over soon, I just want to be able to get back to normal mileage asap! Starting to feel like a blimp here, and munching my way through the guts of a packet of Toffifee is not helping...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    Feeling your pain RK, (and very jealous of the tofifififiee, lurve them);) Enjoy your enforced rest, you'll be back pounding the pavements shortly!


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    So far this week Ive eaten a 1kilo bar of whole nut, and two mega bags of malteasers, a cherry cheesecake and assorted crisps and junk. So dont feel bad, theres something in the air giving us all the munchies.

    I hope that your problems will turn out to be simple to sort, and you get back into your running asap. And you will find youll come back strong after a rest, usually, (thats why marathoners taper isnt it?) so dont stress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Oryx wrote: »
    So far this week Ive eaten a 1kilo bar of whole nut, and two mega bags of malteasers, a cherry cheesecake and assorted crisps and junk. So dont feel bad, theres something in the air giving us all the munchies.
    Well there's a ridiculous amount of chocolate in the shops at the moment, silly Mother's Day and Easter! It's not my fault I have sweet feckall willpower in the face of delicious goodies...

    Meh.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Pfft you're ill, injured and stressed you're ALLOWED to comfort eat :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Just called my doctor to see what was going on... "We're still waiting on the rest of your test results, call us back on Thursday". :mad: :( :rolleyes:

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Just called my doctor to see what was going on... "We're still waiting on the rest of your test results, call us back on Thursday". :mad: :( :rolleyes:

    ugh. I'm sure every day feels like a week at this stage :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    littlebug wrote: »
    ugh. I'm sure every day feels like a week at this stage :(

    It really does, I'm really itching for a good run at this stage. I really hope I can get back on the road this week, there are some serious cobwebs that need to be blown away! Worst thing is it's not even that I'm injured, no dodgy knees, shin splints, hamstring tendons or anything which could do with the rest, it's purely the wait for the test results.

    I'm going to be an annoying bitch and ring them again tomorrow, I don't think non-runners really understand what this feels like.

    Really hoping to be able to do the 5k in UCD on the 27th, I've registered for it. No chance of a PB really, but it'll be nice to race again. 25 minutes and I'd be as happy as a pig in the brown stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Just called my doctor to see what was going on... "We're still waiting on the rest of your test results, call us back on Thursday". :mad: :( :rolleyes:
    So it's Thursday, I called again... they're still waiting on one result. And now I've got a cold too. FML?

    Starting to think I should rename my log Constant Inactivity :mad:


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Been thinking about ya and wondering if youd got back into it yet. I cant imagine what a headwreck it is. Hope you get the all clear asap and get to do that race on the 27th.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Lets set up a group kirby where we can complain and moan and watch endless father ted and get fat until we are able to run again. It might shoulder the burden for both of us!!

    On a serious note - chin up. What's this small dry spell compared to the rest of the year to come and the year after that and the year after that. You catch my drift.

    You know, as well as i do, that when you are back out on the raods for 2, 3 days this whole episode will have been largely forgotten.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    ULstudent wrote: »
    Lets set up a group kirby where we can complain and moan and watch endless father ted and get fat until we are able to run again. It might shoulder the burden for both of us!!
    Let's do it. I suggest we call the group "They've taken the roads in". :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭earnyourturns


    Can I join? What with my swollen, clicking knee.

    Like UL Student said, it's not the miles that you run in a day or a week that count. It's the miles that you run in year :) And I don't think there's a single runner out there who isn't all too familiar with the injury-recovery-injury cycle. Sigh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Can I join? What with my swollen, clicking knee.

    Of course! Sit down and have a nice cup of tea.

    One of the really infuriating things about this layoff is that I'm not injured - it's just my doctor being cautious. It'd be easier to understand if there was something that was at me every time I stepped outside...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Blueskye


    Any news yet RK?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Blueskye wrote: »
    Any news yet RK?

    +1
    I was wondering about you today too. I hope you're ok?
    Hopefully you'll be up and out again soon. I just passed you on the 1000 mile thread. Really.... you can't let an auld wan like me get ahead of you :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Still waiting to hear from my doctor, and my cold has now been dragging on for a week too and is just lingering. It's very frustrating. Tbh I think I can really forget about good performances in any spring races at this stage, and just concentrate on getting properly back up to full fitness by the time DCM training starts.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    ugh that's horribly frustrating RK. Take time to get over the cold anyway. I had about 5-6 weeks out last year and thought I would be back to taking walking breaks but I wasn't . Yes I had lost some fitness and I was a lot slower but it came back. You can make decisions on races when you start back again and see how you feel. You might be right back up to speed in a couple of weeks. (only joking about the 1000 mile thing btw... I know you'll pass me again in no time;))


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Well... good news at last :D

    As of this evening, I can run again :D:D:D:D:D:D

    Unfortunately due to a need to get some college work done this evening (and some rather uncooperative weather, it's absolutely pissing rain here), the run is going to have to wait until tomorrow morning, but still... YAY!!!

    My doctor said that all my tests showed up normal, so the faint while running was really "just one of those things" that can't be explained. He also said to take it relatively easy with getting back into running, to start with about 12-15 mpw and slowly build during April back to where I was. In terms of racing, he's suggested that I don't target a time in any races until May - so that basically means that there's no real point in me doing the Great Ireland Run. I'm registered for the Rás UCD on Saturday, but I'm just going to run it fairly easy.

    Happy and relieved kirby is happy. :) <(^_^)>


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,144 ✭✭✭Bally8


    Delighted to hear it RK:) Welcome back!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Blueskye


    Great news :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭RubyK


    Great news RK, you must be relieved to be getting back out there!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Great news, you'll be back to full pace in no time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,724 ✭✭✭kennyb3


    RK, just catching up on your log now, thats great news. had a stress test done myself recently which is bit weird as i had palpitations and breathing problems. great that everything is clear


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Glad you got the all clear RK. Was concerned. Im entered in the great run but have WAR the day before, so if Im there, Im plodding. We could always plod together and chew the fat. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Sub430


    That's a relief. Welcome back. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Well, I'm back :)

    4 miles this afternoon (9.10/mile pace), damn it feels good to be on the road again. Felt pretty much as tough as can be expected after nearly 4 weeks out, but such is life.

    I'm happy now :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,612 ✭✭✭gerard65


    Good news. Just take it a little easy for a couple of weeks and you'll be back to where you left off in no time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    gerard65 wrote: »
    Just take it a little easy for a couple of weeks and you'll be back to where you left off in no time.

    That's pretty much what my doctor was saying yesterday, to start off relatively easily and slowly build back to where I was over the next 3-4 weeks. I actually surprised myself with the pace I was managing today, I wasn't pushing it really at all and I wasn't too far away from the 9 min/mile pace that I was finding comfortable before all of this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 298 ✭✭earnyourturns


    Hooray! You're back in action!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Well, I'm back :)

    4 miles this afternoon (9.10/mile pace), damn it feels good to be on the road again. Felt pretty much as tough as can be expected after nearly 4 weeks out, but such is life.

    I'm happy now :D

    I actually saw you on your run waiting for a pedestrian light on the scholarstown road just before 2pm. I pulled up beside you, beeped frenetically and even wound down the window and shouted out it, but to no avail. You had an earphone in each ear and were in a world of your own. The people standing beside you must have thought I was some kind of weirdo :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    menoscemo wrote: »
    The people standing beside you must have thought I was some kind of weirdo :o
    Funny that :pac: ;)

    Sorry about that, I really do tend to get into my own little world while running! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Good to see you back RK :) And straight back in at a crackin' pace too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    Yay you're back! :D And glad to hear there's nothing wrong with you either (except, obviously, the running looniness we all carry deep inside...)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Well, despite being registered for the UCD Rás, I decided to just turn over in bed yesterday when my alarm went at 8am and my legs were actually a bit stiff from Friday's run! :eek: I don't trust my ability to run easy in a race situation, so probably for the best that I didn't go.

    Did another 4 miles this afternoon (9.09/mile pace), nice afternoon for it. A little bit of residual stiffness still there, but that's slowly going away. I feel like I've lost an awful lot of fitness over the last month and that's a bit depressing. Hopefully I can get back to where I was over the next while, can't see myself being race-fit in time for the Great Ireland Run though so I think I'll focus on something in May or June, and build base so that I'm in a good place to start DCM training.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    RayCun wrote: »

    Might be worth a shot, I've got unfinished business over the 5 mile distance after Raheny.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,048 ✭✭✭dolliemix


    Found your thread!

    Just reciprocating the encouragement you've given me! It's great that you're back and getting straight into it :)


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Good to see you're back in motion. Know exactly how you felt, frustrating as hell. Take it easy as you ease back in, you should be able to go a good pace in the Great Ireland Run, two weeks is a long time, I was surprised how quickly my speed came back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Another 4 miles today (9.04/mile pace). Lovely evening for it - cool and sunny, with a breeze that didn't quite rip through me as much as the wind did when I was coming home from college last night! Felt more comfortable than I did on Friday or Sunday, think I'm slowly getting back to where I want to be. Very slowly. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    5 miles this afternoon (9.04/mile pace), longest run since late February - shocking! :eek: Very enjoyable run, even if it did remind me of how far I have to go to get back to full fitness. At least I can have a few guilt-free beers in my friend's house later tonight, we're having a Sacrilegious Night - watching The Life of Brian and lots of Father Ted while eating steak and having a few beers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭racheljev


    ^^down with that sort of thing, careful now (sorry, just had to be said!:D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy! (One of my fav movies :))


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Good to see you getting back on track RK, are you going to run the GIR?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Good to see you getting back on track RK, are you going to run the GIR?

    Officially undecided, but leaning towards a no, I don't think I can get enough fitness back in the next 2 weeks to really do myself justice. It is tempting though, I did enjoy it last year.


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Well like I said up there Im doing GIR, and I wont be racing it, if ya want someone to hold ya back ;)


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