If you tuned in to my last blog post, you saw just how injuries can and do get to each and every one of us at some point. When you train hard, unfortunately, you are constantly walking the line between injury and health as you push the limits of training. The best thing you can do is to do your best preventative efforts to keep injuries at bay to the best of your ability. This includes things like stretching properly, strengthening adequately, proper nutrition, and training smart. A part of training smart is to listen to your body. When you feel fatigued for multiple days in a row, it might be time to give yourself a rest day so that your body can complete the regeneration processes. If you don't, the body will continue to break down and that's when injuries are destined to get you. That's not the only way injuries can get you though. Sometimes, it's just a freak incident that is out of your control.
My injury occurred from having a lapse in good training judgement for just a few days. Sometimes, that's all it takes to have problems creep in. Fixing the issues takes longer than if you just keep them away from the beginning.
The good news is that over the last two weeks, my rehab has been going extremely well. I felt pretty darn good by Saturday and so I decided I would give the 10 mile tempo run a try. The plan was to do keep going so long as I was able to maintain a solid tempo run pace and so long as I didn't have any discomfort in my knee. Much to my liking, I started the tempo run and was able to hang on to Kimi for the entire way. We smoked the 10 mile tempo run under an hour. I was a bit shocked I was able to hold it together for the entire way.
Last week, I managed a total of 50 miles for the week. This is still much below where I'd hoped to be at this point, but it is much more reasonable than some of the prior weeks had been. Starting the year, I had a goal of 3000 miles. If I'm going to get there, I'm going to have to start hitting some solid miles pretty soon since I have a lot of ground to make up.
This week's goal-
Keep my streak of consecutive days run alive,
2 hard workouts
2 weights days/rehab days
55+miles
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