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Pushing my boundaries and making my physio rich...
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mate is gone back to Australia - 3 days of non-stop eating and drinking, great fun but Im not going near a weighing scales for a while
Got to the gym this morning, 40 mins running on a treadmill at a pretty fast pace [intended doing 20/25 mins, but felt good, so kept going] and then did 25 mins of weights.0 -
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Damn - I must have missed the couple of boardies meeting in the park this morning by literally minutes
I did around 20k anyway - which is longer than I have ever gone before. So Im chuffed.
Avg HR: 137 bpm
Max HR: 157 bpm
I got a small issue in my right knee after a few KM's, so I slowed down a tad. But Im totally happy, that all I wanted to do was a long slow run anyway
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Have small issue with right knee [confirmed by physio last night]. Its not that serious, but will only get worse and worse if I ignore it - and mess up connemara plans [and beyond] in new year. So I better sort it.
Long story short is that the advice I received from physio is that need to do silly exercises on it a few times a day for a couple of months and cut back on serious stress on knee. [that would be long runs or going too fast].
Damn
I dont know about the two 10k's [marley park & aware] and the 5k [jingle bells] Im entered in now. I will see how we go with exercises over a few weeks I guess.0 -
With my knee issues I had a quiet week. I was in the gym 3 or 4 times, focusing on weights and doing some cardio. I mixed around the cardio stuff, doing bike one day, treadmill one day, rower one day and the cross trainer another. At all times I was able to go for 15 to 20 mins with no bother, and then the knee starts to bother me, so I stopped.
I went for a swim on Friday, and it was fine. So I thought to risk it this morning [after going on a monster piss up last night!!].
This morning I went for a proper run for the first time since last week. I did 6k at a pretty slow pace, running from my place to my mums, as I had to go up there for a couple of things Around 3 to 4k mark I started to feel knee [only a small bit] and around 5k mark it was quite sore.
Avg HR: 130 bpm
Max HR: 158 bpm
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Quiet enough week, as Im being a good boy with my knee issues..
Went to gym on Monday, and again this morning.
A good session on rowing machine this morning, was in a heap after it [around 2350m in 10 mins [slowing down for last 30 seconds], dont know if thats ok or sh1te - but I was wrecked after it, and that was the goal!]. But importantly the knee was perfect after it. So that could be the machine of choice for next while, I will see how many meters I can do in 10 minutes, or maybe how far I can do before collapsing 0 -
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tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »The big question is do I run the Marley Park 10k next week &/Or the Aware 10k a couple of weeks later or what? [Already knocked jingle bells 5k on head]
If you're okay for short runs, why are you choosing between two 10ks and definitely not doing a 5k?
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I read the replies to my post on Friday morning and it was a bit of a face palm moment. You are all correct, of course.
I just really [REALLY] wanted to do my first 10k, and wanted to do the Marley Park one, as I grew up near there and the Aware one as its a brilliant cause. But to do so, and run though pain [and maybe feck up knee] would be plain stupid.
Bah, now I understand why people always say the hardest thing for a runner is being injured and staying off it.
Anyway, tonight I did basically the exact same run as Thursday night [except in reverse, to keep things interesting]. Wet and freezing, never have I been more glad I can look like a complete plonker with my running tights, as they are solid gold on nights like this
I did a fraction over 5k, in 31 minutes odd. Again, I did not feel my knee at all until right at the end, where it was not really sore, per sae, I'm just super conscious of it, so it just started to feel "different". I would have stopped then anyway, but I was basically at my front door, so its all good.
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Interesting day yesterday.
In the morning I went for a quick blast of weights in the gym, knowing I would have a busy day.
Had loads of shopping and random messages to do thru the day
Later on in the day I went and experienced yoga for the first time, at a 2 hour session at yogadublin.com - I did not know what to expect and I really enjoyed it to be honest. In the class itself, there were 12 girls and 2 guys. I was able to do everything right up to the end, when she started putting legs behind heads and what not - those last couple I was a dismal failure - but men were not designed for that action, as millions of teenage boys discover every year
Im a bit stiff today, but not too bad at all. The area where I have the most pain are my ankles [legs are just plain old stiff], which is odd. But they were used and abused with all manner of stretches and movements - so I guess thats to be expected. But it remains odd
No pain and no gain and all that
Im supposed to be going to Landsdowne Road today for the rugby, looking out at the snow I think Im mental for even thinking of going0 -
God almighty I hate this snow
This morning the main roads are not too bad, but the pavements and the back roads are a potential venue for the next series of ice road truckers!
I have had to make do with the gym this week. I have done a similar workout to this one below 3 times this week now.
Last night I ran 5 miles on the treadmill, 3 fast miles, 7 to 8 mins a mile [fast for me!] and 2 slower miles in-between [10 mins odd a mile].
Also doing 30+ mins session of weights, to try and get an all body workout.
Jesus running in the gym is boring, give me things to look at as Im running around town or running around the phoenix park any bloody day. But Im not risking limb to do it
Aim to get to the pub later and see the ladies and gents from this forum in a good old fashioned, "who are you again, whats your real name, whats your boards name again" night out 0 -
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[HTML][/HTML]tHE vAGGABOND wrote: »Between the gym being closed early due to no water, and not wanting to run on dangerous icy roads I have been reduced to running in my living room along to wii fit..
Oh how the mighty have fallen
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So I have largely been idle since early November, and the 20k run. What was happening was that after 5k to 6k my knee's were getting sore. It was more of a stinging pain right at/under the knee cap, than the knee buckling under me or anything like that.
The first physio I went to was not amazing, in hindsight, as he was letting me run and gave me some very basic exercises to do. After a few weeks it seemed just the same to me, so I changed guys.
This new guy explained things better to me, and told me to stop running and changed the exercises I was doing, and a couple of weeks later it does indeed feel better. Its quite handy that its Christmas now, as Im sure I would have been doing next to no running anyway, so I get a couple of weeks to get better, and get back into it in the new year.
So what happened I hear you ask.
Well, if you remember my story, 7 months ago odd I was over 20 stone [a fraction under 128kg] and bone idle, unable to climb a few flights of stairs to my gaff. I am now just a shade off having lost 5 stone, being 15.1 stone [96 kg].
As I was going to the gym and getting more and more into exercise, I started couch to 5k. But quite quickly into the program I was running fast and running slow, not run and walk [as you asked ask to, on c25k] - so I was really getting into it, and running more than I should have really.
About 6 or 7 weeks into the couch to 5k program I was running 5k on a treadmill in the gym, a few weeks ahead of schedule. I think its a 9 or 10 week program, and only at the very end should you run 5k in one go.
Next I started running out and about in public, and quickly started running 4 to 5 nights a week, and again very quickly I was doing 30k a week on average. At the weekend I would go to the phoenix park and do a long run. Those long runs became longer and longer, again pretty quickly.
So what I did, basically, was do too much, too quickly. Some muscles [and ligaments] developed excellently, and others did not. The ones which I did not develop properly, caused issues. If it was not going to be this one, it would have been another.
So the Patella ligament, under my right knee cap was getting sore, that was the cause of my pain. What the second physio explained to me was that it was tangled up [where it should be straight] [or frequently on internet, they explain it as it being blistered or use some kind of spaghetti reference!]. Its also frequently called "runners knee" - http://www.runnersmedicalresource.com/injuries06.html
So he showed me where the pain was coming from, as part of his treatment he did acupuncture to my thigh, and on the left it was fine, no drama. On the right, when he put the pins in certain places it was like he was putting a cattle prod to my leg, serious pain. So clearly the muscle all the way up the right leg being tight as hell, and the cause of knee issues. So the whole upper leg needed to me sorted out.
For the last few weeks I have not run a step, but have been doing upper body weights and on the bike and cross trainer in the gym 3 or 4 days a week odd, to keep up some level of fitness and also ensure the knee is getting better [as right when things were worst with knee I could not too do either for too long, and before I saw this new lad I could not do either too hard for too long without it starting to be a bit sore]. I did 35 mins on both bike and cross trainer this morning [working off a *A LOT* of booze from last night!]. No issues.
So hoping in early Jan I will be back at the boards AC weekend meetups, and getting training on some hills for the conn half 0 -
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