Arghhh nooooooo! Really? A cyst on my leg? A few days in agony and on antibiotics at the critical beginning of the 12 week training plan?
Yes. It is so. Injury has struck!
And so I have lost a week of precious training time.
Do I let this defeat me when there are still the best parts of 3 months left to train? Er, let me see. No.
I can no longer look for excuses (which is one of the biggest problems I find, keeping on track and not finding reasons why you can’t do it).
So my aim is now to get around the race in one piece and not perhaps getting a sub two, it may be too late – but hey I could enter another half soon after and get that sub two as there are tonnes all year round, so this is no excuse to give up now.
I’m starting the 12 week training plan from the start and will ignore the fact that I’ve lost a week. I will still build gradual – I learned the hard way that if you increase your mileage more than 10% per week you get things like a knee injury. I recollect my last half marathon training where I hobbled around the streets of Edinburgh (working at the Forestry Commission’s HQ in the days of being a web manager). I remember stopping to buy that spray on Ibuprofen stuff and a knee support. Was super painful and was purely the result of ‘overtraining’. Too much too soon.
Last night I was feeling better and decided not to let a week off running deter me and actually ENTERED the Swansea Half!
Today I got my running gear on and headed to the beach in Swansea Bay for 30 minutes (I will try to run most days now), but it was super windy – like blowing a GALE! So I ran around Victoria Park and then around the streets in St Helens on the pavement and did a round loop around Guildhall Complex and weaved a few side streets. This plus my hoodie and body warmer were just what was needed on a day like today. Roll on warmer weather.
Mm, and I will be making notes in my iphone of my runs (also logged in my watch, must download the runs to see progress soon). Today it says I ran 2.5 miles and averaged an 11 minute mile. I have progress to make.
My classic iPod is broken 🙁
I need to think about ordering one from my Next catalogue as running without tunes is no good man!
I remember the Scissor Sisters being good to run to and of course the Rocky theme tune! Will get a few new albums – they say that running on a treadmill whilst watching TV, reading or listening to music results in better or should I say longer runs…when the mind is busy, it’s easier to do the legwork. I ran both my half marathons in Cardiff to music. Although I did annoy one runner enough to deliberately elbow me and have a go for listening to ipod mid race, he said it was dangerous and that’s true when you are running on roads with traffic as you won’t hear them. Oh well.
See you soon people – how are you getting on with your training?????