Having survived 39 and a half years with virtually no sports-related injuries of any description that I can recall, it's frustrating to lose the last two weeks of training time to a couple of injuries. Firstly, having completed a 17 mile run one Sunday night and feeling like a burst ball but otherwise OK, I was a bit dismayed to have to pull up after just a few miles the following day with my right knee feeling like it was ready to explode across Great Western Road. Fortunately a few days off and I was back in the saddle and making up for lost time quite nicely, thank you very much.
Then last Saturday morning, while pulling a training bag out from under the bed, I felt something go ping in my back and quite literally couldn't stand up. Took me 10 minutes to get upright and then I couldn't walk properly. Twice during the day my back and left hip locked up, sending shooting pains up my spine and leaving me doubled over in public places, unable to stand up straight or move from the spot for 2 or 3 minutes. Much to the bemusement of my fellow Co-op shoppers.
It's now Thursday and while the pain has largely gone, I'm still feeling a tightness and soreness as the day goes by. Running not an option and I'm starting to get concerned at how many more days I'm going to lose.
Somewhat more existentially, it's been another unwelcome reminder to me that I'm not getting any younger and I'm going to have to deal with the fact that my body isn't what it used to be - the situation no doubt exacerbated by the fact that I'm asking it do more than it has ever done before.
I should probably just be grateful that I haven't had more injuries before now, but it is frustrating to lose valuable days to a niggling pain.
Having said that, it was only this week that I realised that the marathon is on April 17, not March 17 as I'd been working to. Bingo. I've won a month. You'd think I'd have checked a little detail like that before now, wouldn't you? So even taking into account the couple of weeks of training I've just lost, I'm still net 2 weeks to the good. Swings and roundabouts.
Hey man
ReplyDeleteBeen wondering how the training was going. Sorry to hear that you've been hit by the lower back pain. I totally fucked my back this summer like that (on holiday of course) and spent a week lying in front of the tent in Corsica. At some points I could only stagger a few metres with someone holding me upright, spasms of pain leaving me unable to stand. And the same tightness. Hasn't gone yet, six months later although I've been running pretty regularly seeing as how you guys got all our snow. Nowhere near 17 miles, but I can do a happy 7 miles in just over an hour. Maybe we'll get organised for a run some time? Feel like coming over to France at any point????
Take care and stay focused. Push yourself, but not to the point of collapse.
David
Howdy David - reading these comments back to front (newest to oldest) so had no idea who thrawn pop was. Hence the vaguely cagey response! Anyway, defo up for a wee organised run sometime. Maybe the Paris marathon? You up for a proper big run? I'm going to do the Edinburgh half marathon later this month and try to do a decent pace coz i reckon I can run a lot faster than I did in London, just because of the sheer volume of runners.
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