Am I Running Or Jogging?

Just a little one today to get a some consecutiveness going again.

Plan - 2 Miles Easy

I was a bit dead on my feet today and that hip problem I had back in November / early December has flared up again. I'm getting pretty enraged about all these injuries and things that keep piling up - I JUST WANT TO RUN! :mad:

Total: 3.2km in 18:30

Did some strength work afterwards. Time to foam roll and stuff and hope for the best I guess.

Plan - 3 Miles Easy:

Happy enough with today. Hip is still an issue, but in a background noise sense that I've become used to over the last couple of months. Felt better and stronger than I have in a while now. Won't get too excited until I can say that after a few weeks of uninterrupted running.

Total: 5km @ 5:40/km

10 mins on the bike after which seems to have a positive effect, and a little upper body strength stuff - I've been neglecting that something awful.

Run Commute 2:

Running in to work. Bad idea, I'm not a morning person so I didn't like this. :P Pace was slow and made slower by crowded footpaths and busy roads. I had to stop and walk a bit later on because my leg was sore (something didn't like so much downhill), but then was able to continue.

Total: 8.49km @ 6:09/km

Average pace came out exactly the same as last night, spooky! Doing these so close together was not a smart move - I will pay for this, I know it.

Firedance wrote: »

awww running in the morning is just the best thing ever! although clearly I am a morning person

I hope not, mind those niggles...

Hah, I envy people who are full of the joys in the morning but I'm just not and I doubt if I ever will be.

Niggles - it seems like I'm doomed to repeat the same mistakes forever!

I'll be cycling home followed by foam rolling for sure. I did foam roll last night but it was extremely half arsed if I'm honest!

A pretty dismal week of low mileage and easy paces. It's a balancing act between allowing my knee an opportunity to heal without losing all of my fitness.

Mon 15th: 3.2km @ 5:53

Wed 17th: 5.1km @ 5:49

Thu 18th: 60 minutes cycling

Sat 20th: 5km @ 6:00

Sun 21st: 4.5km @ 5:42

Surprisingly I felt very strong and fit today and it was a crying shame I couldn't keep going for another couple of miles. Next week will probably look a lot like this one. I might go wild and push it past 20km though.

Tue 1st: 5.2km @ 5:46

Fri 4th: 5.7km @ 5:44

Sat 5th: 7.02km @ 5:45

Sun 6th: 5.2km @ 5:48

A very extremely mono-paced week, also squashed most of the running into the weekend. Need to do better next week. Knee remains an issue. :mad:

Hey, thanks for the input Dub. I think it is caused by strength problems all right, but the problem is I don't know what to be doing about it. I have been trying to work more and more strength into my week, but it's a bit ad hoc and would probably benefit from a defined plan. It's so easy to find running plans online, but I've had much less success when it comes to finding info about a complete complementary strength program!

I had intended to see one about my hip, but that has finally resolved itself, thank god! My injuries tend to be very considerate, in that they usually take turns and don't hog the limelight from one another! :pac:

I think I'm subconsciously avoiding it because I'm worried they'll tell me not to run for a while, and then I'll just ignore them anyway but feel guilty about it. I'm not a very responsible person.

Aye, thinking about it, you are of course correct. Putting it off hasn't done me any good because I've made no progress in the last two months and am just standing still (at best). If I'd gone a month ago I'd probably be back at full tilt by now...

Can anyone recommend a good physio?

South Dublin. Bit dubious about going to a random one because there's no guarantee they know what they're doing.

Not far from where I work, much obliged!

This week's running doesn't look all that much different from last week's but it felt much more productive. I still squashed most of the running into the weekend (it suited me), but I managed the paces a little better and enjoyed myself more.

Tue 8th:

After being Mr Mono McPacerson last week, I wanted to focus on slowing the easy runs down so that I could do some faster stuff on another day and actually have some variation again. Partial success. 5.17km @ 5:54

Fri 11th:

This was to be my LSR (The 'L' part is pretty liberal at the moment but I'm very gradually building things back up on purpose). I didn't look at the watch at all from the moment I started it to when I stopped it again. I tried to slow down, but somehow just went at the same pace I always end up doing my easy runs at. Again. 8.1km @ 5:47

Sat 12th:

Determined to learn how to slow down, I told myself to pretend this was a recovery run. Go slow. Go really really slow. Every time I took a step I told myself "Not racing, slow down". It sort of worked, a bit. 5.4km @ 6:03

Sun 13th:

We were invited for 'Sunday lunch' at my mam's today. It turned out that Sunday lunch meant a starter of mussels, followed by a massive roast turkey with all the trimmings. Over two hours later, I could still feel it.

I went out for a 5k tempo run, excited to finally be injecting back in some pace (by my standards at least). It was going well for about 3.5km until the lunch decided that it had strong objections to the events that were unfolding and I had to ease off a little if I wanted to avoid being reacquainted with it! I still really, really enjoyed this run.

Splits: 5:15; 5:00; 4:54; 5:15; 5:20; (31)

5.1km @ 5:09 (26:18)

Garmin has informed me that it thinks today's 25:43 is my 5k PB. That, of course, is because it measured the distance 10 or 20 meters short during my actual PBs. :pac: