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Confessions of a Comrade Cailin

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭Oisin11178


    Nice to see you back running. Have you got a comeback race in mind?
    A few of us are getting a relay team for the belfast 24 hour race next year. Should be way more of us up there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    3.5 mins:1.5 mins x 8 Friday

    3: 2 x 6 times. Sunday

    Slowly slowly catchee monkey , I tell myself . this is going to take forever.:(

    Dont know how long it will take to get to any race distance so dont know what to aim for yet. Paid for Connemara as I hope to be at least at half marathon distance by then, if not further.

    wonder where they are going to host the 24 hour next year. mary Peters wont be finished in time.? eddie Gallen is going for another 24 hour in December in Barcelona.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    Tuesday: Walk 3' : Run 2' x 6 times. Felt fine. But will stick to this for the week to ensure I dont push on too fast and have to drop back in the next 2 weeks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    Wednesday
    Met a personal trainer in the gym, He suggested I start a "random" walking programme on the treadmill that involves some incline.
    I did a 30 minute walk at 6.5 kph constant with gradient rising up to 1.3 a few times , stepping at .4 and .8 etc on the way.
    Was much more stressful and quite sore where the running wasnt at all. I believe it was the walking uphill that got me in this trouble in the first place.
    this morning its very thickened and sore rather than swollen so I think I will stick to my own plan and build up the minutes running before I start going outside and introducing natural inclines.

    30 mins walk including minor inclines :-(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    Did go back to my own plan and was happily walk running 3:2.

    But unfortunately days of lugging rolls of fiberglass and squatting in small attic spaces for days has it bruised and sore again. Carrying bags of coal and dragging old carpets, doors, rowing machiens , lumber, and rubbish out of attic hasnt helped either and I fear I may have torn it a bit again.
    Guess I will have to wait another few weeks. Will see if I can get started on the bike and cross trainer next time. Sigh. ( reality...cries bitterly)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    Had a scan this morning. Still a lot of fluid in damaged area. Big scar there too so looks like the hole is filling in ? Consultant in January.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    Consultant says I can start back exercising and will review after mri in 6 weeks time.
    Methinks I better start on exercise bike and cross trainer and walking first. have got so lazy its proving difficult to make a start. Am too nervous about just going for a short run. After all this time its probably worse than starting from raw with non history of injury.


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


    Sorry to hear about your injury woes. Hopefully you'll get your confidence back and get back to running soon.

    I see you have put down that you are doing the full in Connemara. I doubt you are now, or are you gonna walk it? Maybe you'll come down anyway for the craic even if you are not running? We promise to go straight to the pub after this year, so there is no chance of you missing the fun!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    [QUOTE=
    I see you have put down that you are doing the full in Connemara. I doubt you are now, or are you gonna walk it? Maybe you'll come down anyway for the craic even if you are not running? We promise to go straight to the pub after this year, so there is no chance of you missing the fun!![/QUOTE]

    Id love to be able to even walk the half. But the crux for me is that its walking uphill that seems to have been the major source of my woes. If I could do the first 1/3 of the ultra Id be better off. Looks like I will be doing the massage on all you sweaty stiff types afterwards instead. Lucky you .:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭hot to trot


    New thread and new beginning

    You will find me http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=76755042#post76755042

    from zero to ???


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