so... x-rays on monday. bone scan tuesday. bone scan involves getting injected with radioactive stuff that goes through your system and attaches itself to your bones. Then they take a scan looking for this radioactive stuff and you get an entire body scan of your skeleton, and also a couple of scans of the affected area. After the injection, you have to come back for the scan about 3 hours later so it does sort of take just over half of a day. Turns out my skeleton is fine and I have no stress fracture. Which means that whatever I have is either tendon or muscle related. If this is the case, then rest and ice and ibuprofen and cross training should fix it up in, like, a week... right? whereas a stress fracture would pretty much rule me out for 4 to 6 weeks at the least. So, as it's not bone I'm all thinking about london again. And icing again. And having to get back down to racing weight again (10 days not running and feeling a bit depressed will put 5lbs or so on you... cookies and muffins and pizza and the like).Goal One - get to the startline in london without an injury (fix this injury completely, not do it again, not get another different or compensatory type injury)
Goal Two - get to the startline in London with the best fitness level I can be in (cross train, and get back running as quickly as possible - without triggering the previous injury)
Goal Three - get to... racing weight (really cut back on calories but not on nutrients... any empty calories are just gone for the next 3 and a half weeks)
Goal Four - run a pr in London.
This is, therefore, what I'm going to do... ice like a crazy ice loving maniac. 20minutes every hour. Ice bath after every run that starts or ends at home. Almost 100% trail running. Cross Training loads... as in weights, as in busting my lungs and heart on the bike.
Gym this morning - put in a solid 2 hours on the exercise bike to try and get as close to the same workout as a long run (body used to burning calories for that long). I'm going Ice like an idiot every evening. Bike again at lunch.
1,500 calories a day until I drop back down to 151. Then 2000 calories until I drop to 148. I'm going to write every single bit of fuel consumption down between now and London. Back to getting to bed early, and waking up at 5am.
I guess this is my knee jerk reaction to getting injured and feeling like everything was out of my control whether I wanted it to be or not. Now I want to control everything. If I can get to London and be able to run and run well, then this'll all be worth it. And it's not like I've not lost all the training... 2,500 miles in 5 months - all that work can't just be gone and lost. I've kept up the exercise bike work for the last 2 weeks. The couple of pounds I put on can be gotten rid of - probably by sunday - with a tiny bit of discipline.
