My legs hurt... boo hoo...
Wednesday 14/02/07:
Brief post during the ads tonight folks - E.R's on!
Out at 6am this morning, on another lovely fine day. Plan required a 35min easy recovery run. Just as well really cos thats about all I felt capable of... My legs were rather stiff and sore and didn't loosen up much during the run. Just as well yesterdays session was such a good one - it made todays not-so-good one a bit easier to digest...
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
Easy paced run: 35mins (6km)
Brisk walk cooldown: 5mins
So I got thru the session but it was a real plod and there were lots of little niggles from the legs. Saving grace was knowing that I had a massage tonight!
Sure enough, when I saw Marianne she went to work on my glutes and legs and it was definately my lower legs - calves and shins - that caused the most pain tonight. My right calf in particular was rather knotty and she worked on it for rather a long time! Moooooooooooooooooo!
We're only going to leave it for 2 weeks till my next massage and I'll have one a week after that too, just before the Forest HM. While I'm increasing my milage quite substantially, I want to keep the maintainence up. Its working well so far...
Tomorrow I will be using Em's trick - what she calls a "cheats rest"! Want to give my legs some rest after the massage but plan calls for a 40min interval session. SO I plan to do an evening run instead and this will fit in nicely with Courtney being back at gymnastics - I will have an hour to kill while she is at her class from 6-7pm. Means I get to run in a different area from usual and saves me sitting on the hard bleachers for an hour listening to the other Mum's gossip and gloat! Will be different doing a PM run again tho, haven't done this since gymnastics finished at the beginning of Dec. last year.
Friday's session is another 35min jog, so doing that on Friday morning after running Thursday night shouldn't be a problem. Going to have to juggle the weekends running around too, but I'll blog about that tomorrow night...
Back to the TV now... Bye!
Brief post during the ads tonight folks - E.R's on!
Out at 6am this morning, on another lovely fine day. Plan required a 35min easy recovery run. Just as well really cos thats about all I felt capable of... My legs were rather stiff and sore and didn't loosen up much during the run. Just as well yesterdays session was such a good one - it made todays not-so-good one a bit easier to digest...
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
Easy paced run: 35mins (6km)
Brisk walk cooldown: 5mins
So I got thru the session but it was a real plod and there were lots of little niggles from the legs. Saving grace was knowing that I had a massage tonight!
Sure enough, when I saw Marianne she went to work on my glutes and legs and it was definately my lower legs - calves and shins - that caused the most pain tonight. My right calf in particular was rather knotty and she worked on it for rather a long time! Moooooooooooooooooo!
We're only going to leave it for 2 weeks till my next massage and I'll have one a week after that too, just before the Forest HM. While I'm increasing my milage quite substantially, I want to keep the maintainence up. Its working well so far...
Tomorrow I will be using Em's trick - what she calls a "cheats rest"! Want to give my legs some rest after the massage but plan calls for a 40min interval session. SO I plan to do an evening run instead and this will fit in nicely with Courtney being back at gymnastics - I will have an hour to kill while she is at her class from 6-7pm. Means I get to run in a different area from usual and saves me sitting on the hard bleachers for an hour listening to the other Mum's gossip and gloat! Will be different doing a PM run again tho, haven't done this since gymnastics finished at the beginning of Dec. last year.
Friday's session is another 35min jog, so doing that on Friday morning after running Thursday night shouldn't be a problem. Going to have to juggle the weekends running around too, but I'll blog about that tomorrow night...
Back to the TV now... Bye!
posted by Vicky @ 2/14/2007 09:48:00 pm
5 Comments:
At Wed Feb 14, 11:10:00 pm,
TD said…
I lost interest in ER when Dr Green left the scene, but there are still some cutie doctors to be seen.
Amazing that so many of us are having problems at the moment with our calves - as per Eddie's post, Ewen's post, and my own (I have a calf problem too, although I didn't mention in my last post). And now you too Vicky. Massage seems to be the answer if we can stand the pain!
I met a couple of Kiwi-became Aussie runners over the weekend and I really must complete that post on NZ that I have been promising.
At Wed Feb 14, 11:44:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
Calves are my bug bear as well, they get lot's of stretching these days.
Hmmm, a nice relaxing run or sitting around on a hard bench with other mum's, yep, run sounds like the way to go. And then you can strut back into the gym feeling all smug and pleased with yourself :-)
At Thu Feb 15, 01:50:00 am,
2P said…
Yeah but at least its the good hurt associated with a comeback and a great run the day before ;-)
At Thu Feb 15, 12:14:00 pm,
Ewen said…
Woah! That 'moo' scared me!
At Thu Feb 15, 03:47:00 pm,
Spark Driver said…
The must have some killer ads in NZ.
I regularly watch a NZ show on pay TV. Police Ten 7. You live with some "interesting" people.
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