Ain't nothing gonna break my stride....

career move · 30-06-2014 09:18AM

DOCO12 wrote: »

Great to see ya back and to hear the stretches are helping a bit

Thanks. The stretches are helping to keep me sane anyway if nothing else!

Pacing Mule · 30-06-2014 09:19AM

Great to see you back

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Dilbert75 · 30-06-2014 10:19AM

Damn. I was only back here to predict you'd be back under the name Mireya in your spiritual home of the TDAR forum. Ah well - welcome back anyway.

AuldManKing · 30-06-2014 11:22AM

Welcome back (even if I didn't actually realise you were gone

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career move · 30-06-2014 01:38PM

Pacing Mule wrote: »

Great to see you back .

Thanks

Dilbert75 wrote: »

Damn. I was only back here to predict you'd be back under the name Mireya in your spiritual home of the TDAR forum. Ah well - welcome back anyway.

Thanks and sorry to disappoint you!

AuldManKing wrote: »

Welcome back (even if I didn't actually realise you were gone )

Thanks (I think!)

RedRunner · 30-06-2014 01:39PM

Yay!:):):)

career move · 30-06-2014 01:44PM

RedRunner wrote: »

Yay!:):):)

I can't do smiley faces or thanks cause I'm a newbie but thanks for your messages and congrats on your shiny new PB at the weekend!

Dilbert75 · 30-06-2014 03:26PM

career move wrote: »

Thanks and sorry to disappoint you!

You know I only jest. As some quarehawk once said "the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing". Amid the disappointment and concern over The Beast, the main thing is that you can enjoy your running and be pain-free. If that takes a little while to come right, it'll be worth the wait.

pgmcpq · 30-06-2014 03:32PM

Persistent injuries are tough to deal with. Especially as it is often hard to get medical folks to deal with anything other than the immediate symptoms, and friends feel free to chip with "helpful" comments. I have lost count of the number of times I have said "ok, that's it"... but I still keep coming back. Look at the long term rather than the immediate race. After three years I am finally injury free (touch wood). Slow, a bit frustrated... but injury free. Keep the faith.

career move · 30-06-2014 05:12PM

Dilbert75 wrote: »

You know I only jest. As some quarehawk once said "the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing". Amid the disappointment and concern over The Beast, the main thing is that you can enjoy your running and be pain-free. If that takes a little while to come right, it'll be worth the wait.

The truth is I would never defect to the TDAR forum.

I just wouldn't fit in over there. My bike isn't expensive enough and I don't have enough lycra in my wardrobe

pgmcpq wrote: »

Persistent injuries are tough to deal with. Especially as it is often hard to get medical folks to deal with anything other than the immediate symptoms, and friends feel free to chip with "helpful" comments. I have lost count of the number of times I have said "ok, that's it"... but I still keep coming back. Look at the long term rather than the immediate race. After three years I am finally injury free (touch wood). Slow, a bit frustrated... but injury free. Keep the faith.

Thanks. Your dead right. As I've been reminded lately it's important to remember the bigger picture and no matter how bad it gets there's always people worse off.

Duanington · 30-06-2014 08:38PM

Good to see you back CM - love this log, hope that injury clears before too long but at the same time, it'll be ready when its ready !

tang1 · 30-06-2014 09:46PM

Great to see you back K, being injured is hard, i know. You'll be back stronger than ever when you get over it, be patient.

Runchick · 01-07-2014 09:23AM

Geez I really need to keep up with things around here, glad you're back! Best of luck with the injury recovery

career move · 01-07-2014 07:28PM

Duanington wrote: »

Good to see you back CM - love this log, hope that injury clears before too long but at the same time, it'll be ready when its ready !

tang1 wrote: »

Great to see you back K, being injured is hard, i know. You'll be back stronger than ever when you get over it, be patient.

Runchick wrote: »

Geez I really need to keep up with things around here, glad you're back! Best of luck with the injury recovery

Thanks guys

@Runchick you didn't miss much. Just a little hissy fit

Oryx · 01-07-2014 07:57PM

There I was, catching up, and you nearly give me a heart attack. Never do that again!

Someone put tape over her close account button, will ya??

Anyway... trust me when I say I know how frustrating injury can be. Especially for you with being under team pressure to perform. But shotgun will get over it if you can't race. Im like him tho, I trust in providence that you will.

career move · 01-07-2014 08:04PM

Oryx wrote: »

There I was, catching up, and you nearly give me a heart attack. Never do that again! Someone put tape over her close account button, will ya??

Anyway... trust me when I say I know how frustrating injury can be. Especially for you with being under team pressure to perform. But shotgun will get over it if you can't race. Im like him tho, I trust in providence that you will.

Haha sorry! Seeing the specialist on Thursday so fingers crossed.

I know there's lots of people on boards who have had to deal with far worse than me and are back training and racing. Makes me feel bad for making such a fuss

Oryx · 01-07-2014 08:10PM

career move wrote: »

Haha sorry! Seeing the specialist on Thursday so fingers crossed.

I know there's lots of people on boards who have had to deal with far worse than me and are back training and racing. Makes me feel bad for making such a fuss

Fussing is allowed. No one is dealing with this but you. It sucks and you're allowed to be cross.

career move · 03-07-2014 04:21PM

On Monday I think I went a bit mad with the stretching/strength exercises because I had REALLY bad DOMS in my right quads on Tuesday. I was determined that more exercises/ice and a hot water bottle was definitely the way to cure it so that's what I did and I had trouble sleeping Tuesday evening it was so uncomfortable. Wednesday it was as bad so I said I'd do some stretches and nothing else and it improved a bit. I had to see the specialist today so I didn't want to have two gammy legs and thankfully it was nearly better this morning. I looked up his details before I went. He was a Welsh junior international at cross country running, fell running, triathlon and duathlon and he represented Great Britain at triathlon in 06 and 07. Unfortunately he was unable to tell me anything that I didn't already know. Nothing obvious wrong with me and I need an MRI. Stupid me thought that I'd be able to get the MRI immediately but no I have to wait for the first free date which is the 23rd. Bit of a bummer! I was told I was good to cycle though and aqua jogging was also recommended.

When I got home I had an exciting email regarding the Beast of Ballyhoura (I haven't given up on it yet) I think it's a good course for me this year if I can make the startline because there is much less on foot than previous year's and way more kayaking/biking

2014 Beast Route Minimum Distances For Each Section.

Start Short Foot Orienteering 1km

Section 1.1 Kayak 20km
Section 1.2 Swim 600m
Section 1.3 Foot Orienteering 11km
Section 1.4 Kayak 13km

TA1 Kit/Bike Boxes

Section 2.1 Mountain Bike 50km
Section 2.2 Water Based Task 3.5km
Section 2.3 Mountain Bike 38km
Section 2.4 Foot Based Task 1km-5km
Section 2.5 Mountain Bike 28km

TA2 Kit Boxes

Section 3.1 Kayak 20km
Section 3.2 Foot Orienteering 25km

TA3 Kit Boxes

Section 4.1 Mountain Bike 27km
Section 4.2 Foot Orienteering 5km
Section 4.3 Mountain Bike 20km

Finish

So with renewed optimism I decided to head to the pool for some aqua jogging. Had a little google first to see if there was anyway I could possibly injure myself anymore but it seems a pretty safe form of exercise. It was suggested that while I was there I may even do some swimming! My swimming form has been likened to that of a three legged dog but never the less I decided to swim one length, jog for 2 to 3 minutes and repeat. Ended up staying in the pool for an hour and swimming 28 lengths (700m). Happy out now with my exercise endorphins.

Oryx · 03-07-2014 04:30PM

Mwahahaha. Shes swimming. Stage one of the darkside takeover plan complete.

career move · 03-07-2014 04:33PM

Oryx wrote: »

Mwahahaha. Shes swimming. Stage one of the darkside takeover plan complete.

Hahaha. It's better than you think .... forgot to mention I'm getting a coached swimming lesson tomorrow!!

Beef · 03-07-2014 05:10PM

This is an imposter. Like when the German homer Simpson showed up.

Dilbert75 · 03-07-2014 06:02PM

Oryx wrote: »

Mwahahaha. Shes swimming. Stage one of the darkside takeover plan complete.

Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly...

career move · 04-07-2014 09:14PM

Friday am:

Bike: 18k

Had to drop my van into the garage to get it tested and I cycled home. Pretty uneventful until I arrived home. I was messing around with my watch and I forgot when I pulled the brakes sharply that I had the power straps on so when I stopped I couldn't get my feet out of the pedals and the bike and I toppled over as one. I'm sure it would have been pretty funny to watch. Like something you'd see on 'You've been framed'. I fell on my bad leg but luckily my arm took the brunt of my weight and I just grazed my elbow

Swim lesson pm:

Things I have to practice when I'm doing front crawl
-slow down
-breath out fully when I'm underwater
-turn head more to the side to breathe in
-breathe every 4 strides
-make an arc shape when I'm bringing my arm forwards
-relax my arms
-keep my hand straight and my thumb to the side
-focus on the bottom of the pool when I'm swimming
-kick my legs more consistently and in a straight line
-use my whole leg when I'm kicking not just from the knee down

Oryx · 04-07-2014 09:31PM

^^^^ so not much then?

Dilbert75 · 04-07-2014 10:38PM

At least you have somewhere to start from K - have yet to work up the nerve to pay someone to make a list of my swimming shortcomings.

career move · 05-07-2014 05:56PM

A.M:
18k cycle to collect my van. No unpleasant incidents to report

P.M:
Pool. One hour aqua jogging with the belt on this time. There was another man in the pool aqua jogging and I was chatting to him and getting some tips. The time flew by while we were yapping. He had recently run the Dundrum 10k in 36 minutes and he does a good bit of aqua jogging as strength training so I was in good company.

Followed this up with 30 minutes practising my swimming technique. I felt a bit more comfortable in the water today.

career move · 07-07-2014 06:43PM

Sunday:

Rest. In keeping with my new motto 'sometimes less is more' I refrained from doing any exercise other than riding 3 horses

Monday:

A.M: 2 hours and 43k on the bike via templetouhy, templemore, rathdowney, errill. Nothing exciting to report other than my back wheel was a bit low on pressure before I started and I pumped a bit of air into it but when I was taking off the pump I did it the wrong way and left all the air out. D'oh. That meant I was short of time when I finished because I had to be in work at 10 so I didn't get time to do any stretches.

My left glutes and quads were a bit uncomfortable for the morning.....

To paraphrase Tolkien "the fate of my Beast hangs upon a thread, and it is, I fear, the very merest thread"

P.M: 90 minutes in the pool. Started off doing lengths. Mostly front crawl to practise what I was told in the lesson but a few back stroke cause they're my favourite. There was a little fish in the lane beside me with her dad bombing up and down. Made me feel like a tractor having a race with a ferrari so I went and got an aqua belt and did 60 min jogging. Finished off with 10 lengths swimming.

career move · 08-07-2014 10:20AM

Tuesday a.m

90 min flexibility and core

2 x (5 pull ups, 5 chin ups)
15 min stretching
pedestal routine + myrtl routine from wk 1 jay johnson vid
4 x (10 bridge hold 1sec, 10 single leg bridge both sides, 10 adduction lifts, 10 weighted squats 4kg/6kg, 10 weighted single leg squats 4kg/6kg)
2 x (5 biceps curl 4kg, 5 bicep curl 6kg)
1 x 10 triceps curl 4kg
2 x (20 push ups, 20 sit ups, 20 oblique sit ups, 20 jackknifes)

Tom Joad · 08-07-2014 10:45AM

career move wrote: »

Tuesday a.m

90 min flexibility and core

2 x (5 pull ups, 5 chin ups)
15 min stretching
pedestal routine + myrtl routine from wk 1 jay johnson vid
4 x (10 bridge hold 1sec, 10 single leg bridge both sides, 10 adduction lifts, 10 weighted squats 4kg/6kg, 10 weighted single leg squats 4kg/6kg)
2 x (5 biceps curl 4kg, 5 bicep curl 6kg)
1 x 10 triceps curl 4kg
2 x (20 push ups, 20 sit ups, 20 oblique sit ups, 20 jackknifes)

Planning on starting the jay johnson tonight - did it take the 90 mins to do they routine or are you including other stuff in the 90 mins?

career move · 08-07-2014 10:59AM

Tom Joad wrote: »

Planning on starting the jay johnson tonight - did it take the 90 mins to do they routine or are you including other stuff in the 90 mins?

Ya would definitely recommend it. I did everything in the 90 min. Well it might have been a bit longer including breaks. I'd say roughly 20 min to do the jay johnson stuff though

Ain't nothing gonna break my stride....

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