Friday, 22 March 2013
Injury felt like a life time but...I am back!
Well after a year and several months of recovery, I think that I am back. The end of 2011 saw me suffer through a Sportsman Hernia after the Victoria Marathon. I tired to continue running but the pain was unbearable. I wanted to avoid surgery like it was the plague and managed to stay away from running for 8 months and some...not always...intensive Physio and core strengthening.
I would like to say that I am fully recovered but strengthening exercises are really difficult to keep going and stay motivated. I manage to get to the gym once a week or so and find that while there, it really is not that bad.
Not runing really paid off as I felt the pain subsiding over time. One problem though...being that I had been running 50 - 70 kms per week, when I stopped running my intake was not reduced. I managed to put on about 12 lbs and boy can I feel it now.
I ran very short distances in the second half of 2012. My running mates were also sidelined; one with knee issues, another with broken ribs, a fractured arm and just when that healed...foot problems. My running was very sporatic and I wondered if I would ever get back the desire to work as hard as I once did...would I get injured again. I was afraid to commit. Haphazardly I trudged along doing what I could.
2012 saw me enter the longest day 5km race, not to race but to have an excuse to eat all the awesome food that they serve there. Certainly Gord and Dean could say a few words on this topic.
As I neared Jan 2013, I really started feel stronger and the desire coming back so on Jan 1, 2013 I ran. On Jan 2, I ran. And so I ran for the next 4 days. I thought, "I am going to run every day for the whole year". Then I got busy, or so I told myself. I tired to mix a run or two with a gym workout and a couple weeks would go by and I found that I had not run at all!
Nearing the end of March, I have managed to go out running 26 times for total distance of 195 kms...not a bad average (32% of the days and 7.5 kms). However I am at 50% of my volume this same time period from 2011. I have some work to do. I have signed up for the Surrey International 1/2 Marathon in September. This shall be my motivation.
This month I have run 7 times keeping with my average but I have seen an increase in my distance, averaging 10km per activity, impressed myself! Today I managed a long Easy run, that ended at 17kms. My longest run this year. It felt great! No pain! I think "I am back!"
I would like to say that I am fully recovered but strengthening exercises are really difficult to keep going and stay motivated. I manage to get to the gym once a week or so and find that while there, it really is not that bad.
Not runing really paid off as I felt the pain subsiding over time. One problem though...being that I had been running 50 - 70 kms per week, when I stopped running my intake was not reduced. I managed to put on about 12 lbs and boy can I feel it now.
I ran very short distances in the second half of 2012. My running mates were also sidelined; one with knee issues, another with broken ribs, a fractured arm and just when that healed...foot problems. My running was very sporatic and I wondered if I would ever get back the desire to work as hard as I once did...would I get injured again. I was afraid to commit. Haphazardly I trudged along doing what I could.
2012 saw me enter the longest day 5km race, not to race but to have an excuse to eat all the awesome food that they serve there. Certainly Gord and Dean could say a few words on this topic.
As I neared Jan 2013, I really started feel stronger and the desire coming back so on Jan 1, 2013 I ran. On Jan 2, I ran. And so I ran for the next 4 days. I thought, "I am going to run every day for the whole year". Then I got busy, or so I told myself. I tired to mix a run or two with a gym workout and a couple weeks would go by and I found that I had not run at all!
Nearing the end of March, I have managed to go out running 26 times for total distance of 195 kms...not a bad average (32% of the days and 7.5 kms). However I am at 50% of my volume this same time period from 2011. I have some work to do. I have signed up for the Surrey International 1/2 Marathon in September. This shall be my motivation.
This month I have run 7 times keeping with my average but I have seen an increase in my distance, averaging 10km per activity, impressed myself! Today I managed a long Easy run, that ended at 17kms. My longest run this year. It felt great! No pain! I think "I am back!"
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