Fall Running Thread

[rocknrollgirl]

That sounds great RnR. I'd love to hear more about this endurance challenge. It sounds tough!

Of course you know I am on the injured reserve list at the moment, but I fully intend to get back to running just as soon as I am able and hope to be posting on this thread. I'll be reading anyway!

Emily,
I must have missed the injury. What happened?

[emily_in_nc]

Emily,
I must have missed the injury. What happened?

Oh, I think I posted about in Thread Drift. I have a sore right Achilles tendon, or is it soleus, or both? Not sure, but it hurts walking down stairs and anything faster than a walk. It came on after I added speedwork to my running a week ago. It seems to be improving slowly, but no running for awhile. We're having a really rainy period here, so it happened at a good time, if it had to happen. I had hoped to do a local 5K next Saturday, but that is not going to happen now.

[rocknrollgirl]

Oh, I think I posted about in Thread Drift. I have a sore right Achilles tendon, or is it soleus, or both? Not sure, but it hurts walking down stairs and anything faster than a walk. It came on after I added speedwork to my running a week ago. It seems to be improving slowly, but no running for awhile. We're having a really rainy period here, so it happened at a good time, if it had to happen. I had hoped to do a local 5K next Saturday, but that is not going to happen now.

Oh, I am sorry. Had you been running consistently? I usually back off speedwork if I have had a period of inconsistency. I waited months after my surgery before adding any in.

I hope it heals quickly.

[emily_in_nc]

Oh, I am sorry. Had you been running consistently? I usually back off speedwork if I have had a period of inconsistency. I waited months after my surgery before adding any in.

I hope it heals quickly.

Thanks! It seems to be a bit better today in that descending stairs is less painful, so hopefully I am on the road to recovery.

I had been running pretty consistently. But I had recently broken my pinky toe in a vicious encounter with a chair leg, so I'd had to take three weeks off. And after starting back slowly, I'd gradually increased from 2x a week to 3x (just 3ish miles each time, though). In the interest of full disclosure, my Achilles was a tiny bit tender for a couple of weeks prior, but not enough to bother me running. I figured it was just all the stairs I have to do on a daily basis (we're in a 4th floor walkup, the yoga studio I go to 3x a week is also on the fourth floor, etc). I wanted to do a 5K event on the 24th, so my DH suggested adding some speedier intervals to last Saturday's run. I have never done speedwork in my life, and I thought it went rather well until the next morning when I woke up with the Achilles pain. I later read that a soleus strain can refer pain to the ankle and cause pain descending stairs, so it may be that rather than Achilles tendinitis.

In any event, I shouldn't have done the speedwork while I had any tenderness AND so soon after the broken toe. Lesson learned!

[rocknrollgirl]

Speedwork can be tricky. I have found that in my case ( not a life long runner. started as an adult). that it needs to be introduced very gently and with discretion. I actually do most of mine on a small hill on my road. The hill adds difficulty with me having to do too much else, and I read somewhere that the angle that your foot strikes the ground is lessened, so it can be easier on knees etc.

That being said, it is NOT something you want to do with a sore calf or Achilles.

We got a great run in today. 1:10 in the woods on hilly trails. It was 27 degrees and clear so perfect trail running weather. My legs were tired from yesterday's mt biking which was a hard session. I asked my hubs to hill all the technical trails yesterday to work on skills and he obliged. Painfully so

So two hard days back to back topped off with a lovely yoga session after running. Now I need to get some more calories in and grade some papers And vacum and put the laundry away

[emily_in_nc]

Speedwork can be tricky. I have found that in my case ( not a life long runner. started as an adult). that it needs to be introduced very gently and with discretion.

I am with you on only beginning running as an adult. I have begun and stopped running more times than I can count in the last, oh, six years, but I never seem to progress all that much before something else gets in the way and I stop, so I always seem to be starting over.

I thought I was pretty easy on my speed work, but apparently it was too tough for my achilles, since it was already just a bit tender. Lesson learned for sure. I have no idea when I'll be able to even do a slow jog again. Hopefully sometime in 2015 at least! ;-)

Glad you had such a great trail run. 27 degrees though, eeek!

[rocknrollgirl]

Glad you had such a great trail run. 27 degrees though, eeek!

See now here is where the perfect yogi parts ways....I do not do well in the heat. So I am just approaching my time of year. You will hear me gushing when it is 5 degrees outside. I am a winter girl through and through.