{"id":4953,"date":"2015-02-04T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2015-02-04T20:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T04:46:17","slug":"training-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2015\/02\/04\/training-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t done this in a while… posted\u00a0something other than an Instagram image! I suppose I felt compelled to vent about my current training setback. And vent, I shall:<\/p>\n

My Los Angeles Marathon training was going well considering I had just seriously started at the beginning of the new year. I went from 10.3mi in December, to doing 2 back-to-back run workouts during the\u00a0first week with a mileage of 16.4mi, to 5 run workouts on the third week (30.9mi). Motivation was high! Unfortunately,\u00a0on the fourth week, when I was slated to have the most mileage, I pulled\/strained something on my lower right leg\u00a0as I was doing a flat 6mi run workout (I ended up doing only 3mi that fateful Thursday, 22nd Jan).<\/p>\n

The injury? Well,\u00a0the jury’s still out (am too much of a wimp to go and have it scanned because I know that the doc would just say to rest it!) — anyway, it could be Achilles tendonitis or\u00a0possibly\u00a0peroneal tendonitis. It\u00a0felt like the\u00a0same pain I had\u00a0days before the 2013\u00a0LA Marathon, but on the other\u00a0leg.\u00a0I was foolhardy back then, chalked it up to phantom pain, went ahead and ran\u00a0the LA marathon and finished it with a bruised\/discoloured left fibularis brevis. Hah. This time, after feeling the pull, I was cautious and I\u00a0RICE’d my leg as soon as\u00a0I got home. When I checked it\u00a0the\u00a0next day, I was glad to see that it did not bruise!\u00a0I continued RICE-ing it for the remainder of the month (read: 9 days) but knew I’d pause<\/em> my recovery since I had to run a half marathon on my sis’ birfday.<\/p>\n

I was feeling great leading up to her race (OK, I lie: I wallowed and it involved eating dark chocolate-covered almonds for mood enhancement). On race day, I survived running with\u00a0sis\u00a0on her\u00a02\/1 interval for about 9 3\/4 to 10\u00a0miles when the familiar pain returned. I was delusional in thinking then that the injury wasn’t too serious and it would heal itself in a week. +_+\u00a0Still, I finished the race by walking\u00a0gingerly for about a mile, then did a speed walk\/limpy run gait for the last 2 miles.<\/p>\n

Long\u00a0story short (too late), I only have myself to blame for this injury. I started experimenting with my nutrition — consumed only one packet of\u00a0gel during my longer runs, added more\u00a0hill workouts than usual with\u00a04,721 ft total elevation gain, and ultimately just did too much too soon, running 85 mi all\u00a0in January.\u00a0I keep telling myself that it’s not like I went from zero miles to 85, but essentially, that’s what I did (the 10 total in December didn’t count since I wasn’t consistently running).<\/p>\n

Blah blah blah. Whingeing whinge winge.<\/em><\/p>\n

At least I finally found the motivation to get on my trainer.* I figure I’d be spinning for at least another week or two and will get back to running on week three. Next week, I’ll also be back in the pool, so that should be a great way to get more cardio workouts. Minel, my ultra-running sis, strongly recommended\u00a0that\u00a0I\u00a0skip my February race altogether — a back-to-back trail race\u00a0of 21km and\u00a05km on the same day — and\u00a0I know I should, BUT… Ugh, I have a feeling I’ll be doing it anyway.<\/p>\n

One thing is certain: I won’t be racing LA. *sad face* There’s no (healthy) way I’m going to get my speed and mileage by then. +_+<\/p>\n

*On a twistedly silly note, I did an equivalent of 6.66mi on my trainer. Muahahaha<\/p>\n

\"spin-04Feb15\"<\/p>\n

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I haven’t done this in a while… posted\u00a0something other than an Instagram image! I suppose I felt compelled to vent about my current training setback. And vent, I shall:
\nMy Los Angeles Marathon training was going well considering I had just seriously started at the beginning of the new year. I went from 10.3mi in December, read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[120,519,331,282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4984,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}