So I accomplished another goal over there ------>. I am officially over 1300 miles for the year. I'm at 1312 as we s
peak. I would have more but the injury fairy has found me again. More about that in a second. That leaves only one goal left to accomplish, keep my weight in the 150's. I weighed myself this morning. 158. So far, so good and again with the marathon training that's a-coming, I should be fine. I'll weigh myself on Dec. 31 and see if I can check that one off as accomplished. So it should be 10 out of 12 goals accomplished. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.My Cross Country season ended well! My girls finished 7th and my boys 4th in the s
tate. I had the #1 overall girl in the state and the 3rd and 4th boy. Not too bad for my first year. Would I have liked to have done better. Of course. Any coach that says he's fine not getting first place is lying. You always want the best, but it can't always happen. We accomplished a lot this year and 6 of my 7 runners (boys) got PR's in the state meet. I can't complain about that. I truly think they did their best and I was extremely proud of them. So season successful. Can't wait for next year. I've got a great up and coming boys team. I need to recruit some girls but they could be very successful too.You may have noticed that I haven't run at all this week. What's up with that?? Well, I'm injured. Again. I have really killed this "stay injury free" goal this year. What is this, the 3rd or 4th time I've been injured? I think I'm getting old. Anyways, this time it was shin splints. I started having pain in the front of my lower left leg at the end of last week. I decided to run 5 miles on Satur
day to test it out fully intending to do my long run of 16 on Sunday. It hurt at the beginning of my run, but went away pretty quickly. However, only an hour after I ran and all that night, it was killing me. I iced it for a long time Saturday night and then made the choice to skip my long run. I don't like skipping them and I'm already climbing so it was going to be hard to get back up to speed, but I didn't want it to hurt more. Sunday and Monday it was pretty bad. But I've been icing every night and it feels a lot better now. I could probably run today but it's such a busy day that I'm going to wait. I haven't decided if I'm going to run tomorrow or wait for my long run. I adjusted my long run schedule so I can get back to where I was in three weeks. I'm just going to have to up it each week instead of doing the same distance for two weeks each time. I'm planning to run 14 this Sunday. I hope my injury days are done at least until after Disney marathon weekend. I'll keep you posted.That's about it for now. Hope everyone has a great week and a very restful and happy Thanksgiving.
Keep runnin',
Albert
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ReplyDeleteLook at this during the extra ten hours you have this week because you're not running. Or wait until you're too injured too often and you have to hang up the sneaks.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the miles this year - that's impressive!
ReplyDeleteWay to go with the cross country team as well. You did a great job for your first year and next year will be even better I'm sure!
Watch those legs. I thought I was having shin splint problems, but it turned out to be the beginning of a stress fracture. Keep up the icing and resting them as you need to keep those legs as healthy as you can!