I've been battling loads of little niggles and it's getting to my motivation. It's quite hard to get up at 5am when everything hurts when you step out of bed.
Over the last week everything has been getting into trouble and calling for help. My left foot has progressed from hurting under the foot, to hurting on top of the foot. There’s also some pain under the ball of the big toe. The right achilles was not happy early last week, and then it was the calve, followed by the shin being really tight during track on Wednesday. Then it was the bone/outside of the right foot along the 5th metatarsal that was calling out to stop. Now, as of this morning, it’s the tendon at the top of my right foot that joins on to the bottom of the shin. Getting a bit pissed off with it all really. I guess I’ve been training too hard for too long.
I’m in new shoes; I’m doing a lot of icing and taking a lot of ibuprofen. Trying to stick to trails. Cut back mileage to just over 100 miles rather than trying to hit 140.
Lesson’s to be learnt? Maybe my easy runs were getting a bit too fast? Maybe I didn’t replace my shoes quickly enough when the mileage crept over 450miles? Maybe I’m not at the point where I can train for a marathon for 26 weeks and should cut the next training schedule back to 18 weeks? Maybe I was just lucky I could hold on to that level of mileage for so long without these little things getting painful enough for me to notice? Maybe I need to lose about 5 or 8 lbs to that the impact on my system is less? Maybe I’m just going through a bad couple of weeks and need to buck up, take a couple of days off here and there, get some extra sleep and stop whinging about every little thing?
Maybe I’ve got to the point where my engine is finally stronger than my body so instead of my lungs or heart being the bottleneck, it’s my body that has to break… my easy runs were definitely speeding up considerably… I should learn to run like the Japanese and run my easy runs very very slow for the next couple of weeks to see if that helps… easy 10 tonight… I’ll try and take it as gently as possible and get off my land, stick to the path.
Boring boring blog.
