Tuesday 29 October 2013
I've entered an event......
Not a lot to say really......
I'm seeing the physio weekly and haven't been for a run for over three weeks. I've been trying to get out on my bike regularly though, and 'in' on my windtrainer.
After driving people mad with my to-ing and fro-ing, pondering and lamenting over the events I might enter, I have finally made some progress.
Rotorua Half Ironman Team - I've pulled out. Turns out the girls have their first gymnastics display that day, so instead of racing the event, I will be racing between supporting Tom in Rotorua, and cheering on the girls in Te Puke. The bike leg was the only one I could count on being able to complete with a running injury and no swim training, and I can't say I'm weeping over not having to train and race for a 90km road ride.
Tarawera - happy to let it die a natural death but Clare may have sorted us a relay option.......
Nov 16th - MTB skills training in Rotorua.
KidsCan Santa Run - 2-3km in a Santa Suit on December 4th.
Come join me....
https://www.facebook.com/events/208915285953743/
Strangely content with a mindset change from poring over training plans for a 60km ultramarathon, to hoping I can do a 2km fundraising run in a little red suit. I wonder if I have sneakers that will match?
Friday 18 October 2013
Windtraining
For anyone who doesn't know, wind training is when you pop your bike on a special roller system in the garage, so when you pedal, you don't actually go anywhere. It turns your bike into an exercycle so you can get your training session done without leaving home.
Personally, I think part of the point of training is actually to leave home? But anyway, two mornings a week, Tom gets up at 5am to go swimming and I wake up. I've tried for weeks to roll over and pretend I'm asleep, but actually I'm just lying there not wanting to get up so I've decided to do something worthwhile with that time. Seeing as the girls are still sleeping, and I can't leave home, I have my bike set up on the windtrainer. As a windtrainer novice, I've learned a few things over the last couple of months.
1 Start in an easy gear. Otherwise, when you try to do a set on a harder gear to 'challenge' yourself, you will want to vomit.
2 Have a fan. No matter if it's winter and you're in the garage, you're not actually moving. It's amazing how warm the body gets when there is no wind chill factor.
3 Have a towel. Because even if you don't sweat, like me, chances are you will sweat on a windtrainer.
4. Wear as little as possible. Comfy bike shorts and a sports bra is more than enough as your body hits high temperatures. It's the only time my muffin top is ever exposed in training, although sometimes the sight of it disturbs me and I pull the waistband of my shorts up and pretend I have abs.
5 Snot and Sweat. Cycle gloves have little terry towel absorbent bits. Left for sweat and right for snot. On the road, snot can be snorted as long as no other cyclist is immediately behind you. Husbands will frown on this practise on the garage floor beside the workbench.
6 Ensure the bike is firmly connected to the windtrainer. Ejecting from the windtrainer while spinning at 90rpm only inches from the workbench with all manner of tools, equipment and broken toys waiting to be mended, can only be distastrous.
Personally, I think part of the point of training is actually to leave home? But anyway, two mornings a week, Tom gets up at 5am to go swimming and I wake up. I've tried for weeks to roll over and pretend I'm asleep, but actually I'm just lying there not wanting to get up so I've decided to do something worthwhile with that time. Seeing as the girls are still sleeping, and I can't leave home, I have my bike set up on the windtrainer. As a windtrainer novice, I've learned a few things over the last couple of months.
1 Start in an easy gear. Otherwise, when you try to do a set on a harder gear to 'challenge' yourself, you will want to vomit.
2 Have a fan. No matter if it's winter and you're in the garage, you're not actually moving. It's amazing how warm the body gets when there is no wind chill factor.
3 Have a towel. Because even if you don't sweat, like me, chances are you will sweat on a windtrainer.
4. Wear as little as possible. Comfy bike shorts and a sports bra is more than enough as your body hits high temperatures. It's the only time my muffin top is ever exposed in training, although sometimes the sight of it disturbs me and I pull the waistband of my shorts up and pretend I have abs.
5 Snot and Sweat. Cycle gloves have little terry towel absorbent bits. Left for sweat and right for snot. On the road, snot can be snorted as long as no other cyclist is immediately behind you. Husbands will frown on this practise on the garage floor beside the workbench.
6 Ensure the bike is firmly connected to the windtrainer. Ejecting from the windtrainer while spinning at 90rpm only inches from the workbench with all manner of tools, equipment and broken toys waiting to be mended, can only be distastrous.
Physio
So, I've been to the physio today.
It was better than a stage show.
For the record, my chosen physio is highly recommended by a good physio friend, and a number of friends who use his services all completely rate him. Even Tom reckons he's worth the money. I have now experienced first hand, the magic of being truly 'physio-ed'.
He wobbled my legs, wiggled them, rotated them, pulled them, pushed them, on angles and planes I hadn't even imagined. And then, in a moment which should be punctuated with "Eureka" he said "Do you feel that?" I was completely oblivious but trying to look intelligent, which obviously he's used to because he repeated the movement. He holds my knee firm to the physio table where I am lying on my back and gently pulls my foot upwards (hyper extended the knee). Left leg and I look politely interested as it slowly moves up a little. Right leg, and hey presto, there's not any resistance, the foot just flies up.
An injury to a P-something in the back of my knee, alongside weaknesses in something and my hamstring, which aren't pulling my leg forward as they are supposed to after each step. So the ITB is having to do the work which is then hurting in my knee.
I find that quite magic, that in less than 5 minutes, he's discovered things about my body which I haven't even noticed in many years of living in it. That I've taken thousands of steps, on hockey fields, soccer pitches, roads, trails, and didn't know my hamstrings were crap.
Treatment: "Exercises and I'll see you next week. Don't go for a run." Or maybe he said "No running." That might sound like the same thing to you, but I feel there is an important difference in the two running statements. So, I have been very sensible and have not put on my running shoes, found a trail and "gone for a run". However, there may have been a touch rugby game which we didn't have enough girls for, and that may have involved some running..............
It was better than a stage show.
For the record, my chosen physio is highly recommended by a good physio friend, and a number of friends who use his services all completely rate him. Even Tom reckons he's worth the money. I have now experienced first hand, the magic of being truly 'physio-ed'.
He wobbled my legs, wiggled them, rotated them, pulled them, pushed them, on angles and planes I hadn't even imagined. And then, in a moment which should be punctuated with "Eureka" he said "Do you feel that?" I was completely oblivious but trying to look intelligent, which obviously he's used to because he repeated the movement. He holds my knee firm to the physio table where I am lying on my back and gently pulls my foot upwards (hyper extended the knee). Left leg and I look politely interested as it slowly moves up a little. Right leg, and hey presto, there's not any resistance, the foot just flies up.
An injury to a P-something in the back of my knee, alongside weaknesses in something and my hamstring, which aren't pulling my leg forward as they are supposed to after each step. So the ITB is having to do the work which is then hurting in my knee.
I find that quite magic, that in less than 5 minutes, he's discovered things about my body which I haven't even noticed in many years of living in it. That I've taken thousands of steps, on hockey fields, soccer pitches, roads, trails, and didn't know my hamstrings were crap.
Treatment: "Exercises and I'll see you next week. Don't go for a run." Or maybe he said "No running." That might sound like the same thing to you, but I feel there is an important difference in the two running statements. So, I have been very sensible and have not put on my running shoes, found a trail and "gone for a run". However, there may have been a touch rugby game which we didn't have enough girls for, and that may have involved some running..............
Friday 11 October 2013
Stolen Blog
Turns out supergenericgirl has my injury. So I don't need to bother to write about it.
http://supergenericgirl.com/2013/03/13/this-pain-in-the-knee-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/
What she said.
http://supergenericgirl.com/2013/03/13/this-pain-in-the-knee-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/
What she said.
Thursday 10 October 2013
Injured!
Within hours of creating my new super snazzy training plan. I'm injured. Brilliant. Serves me right. What a crappy way to start. I was doing better BEFORE I had a training plan. I was all excited about these goals I was going to achieve, heightened motivation, a real determination, so as a result, now I'm even more disappointed. If I had known I was about to fall, I wouldn't have climbed the ladder to the roof.
I've got flat feet, and some womble at ASICS changed their footprint this year and they don't fit me anymore. After months of uncertainty, my old shoes finally wore out completely, and I've been running in cheap shoes without stability control for months. Since March actually.
Thought process: "Those dastardly shoe corporations, with their emotive marketing strategies, I've wasted a FORTUNE on stability control shoes for years, because look, I've been running in these ones for months and I'm just FIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!"
My knees been sore for the last few weeks, tender till I'm warmed up then niggly towards the end of a run. I'm doing more K's so thought that was natural and I'd soldier on, toughen up and get over it. But last night's run, we went out to Otawa, doing our usual rough run over roots and brush. It's hard going and can be jarring, particularly on the downhill, where I slipped a little on a mossy tree root. We were at 9km, a shorter run because Clare wasn't feeling so well, and I was getting these sharp stabbing pains with each step. Managed to finish the run, drove home and nearly rolled out of the car because I could hardly move it. So sore after my shower that I could barely get up from the ground and had to find some drugs, which I hate taking.
DR Google said something about an ITB, weak glutes and hamstrings, overpronating, blah blah blah.
So I rang a friend. He works at Fisher & Paykel. I see you're struggling to make the connection, but he's just one of those capable people who knows pretty much everything and you'd trust with your life. He's SO amazing, he gave up a successful physio business to do some business-y scholarship overseas, and now, what he does for a job is beyond my intellectual understanding. Anyways, I rang Johnmolloy. (And you might think his name is John..... Molloy, but they're actually amalgamated and he's called Johnmolloy. I'm sure it's a long story but I can't actually remember it.)
Gosh, I'm waffling tonight. I think it's the anti-inflammatories. I'm not good on drugs which is why I try to avoid them.
Anyway, the general gist that I got from Johnmolloy:
1 See a really good physio and get a whole lot of exercises to fix all the weak muscles in my body. Booked.
2. New shoes a good idea, but not as good an idea as some strengthening. (Now I need to change all my workouts to include 10 mins exercises and stretches.)
3. I can still run, within my limits. (It was too blimmin sore to run, think I'll be avoiding that for a while)
4. If biking feels good, go for it. (Biking it is)
5. It's a common runner's injury.
DID YOU HEAR THAT!!??? It's a runner's injury. I'm a runner. Johnmolloy said, so it must be true.
I've got flat feet, and some womble at ASICS changed their footprint this year and they don't fit me anymore. After months of uncertainty, my old shoes finally wore out completely, and I've been running in cheap shoes without stability control for months. Since March actually.
Thought process: "Those dastardly shoe corporations, with their emotive marketing strategies, I've wasted a FORTUNE on stability control shoes for years, because look, I've been running in these ones for months and I'm just FIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!"
My knees been sore for the last few weeks, tender till I'm warmed up then niggly towards the end of a run. I'm doing more K's so thought that was natural and I'd soldier on, toughen up and get over it. But last night's run, we went out to Otawa, doing our usual rough run over roots and brush. It's hard going and can be jarring, particularly on the downhill, where I slipped a little on a mossy tree root. We were at 9km, a shorter run because Clare wasn't feeling so well, and I was getting these sharp stabbing pains with each step. Managed to finish the run, drove home and nearly rolled out of the car because I could hardly move it. So sore after my shower that I could barely get up from the ground and had to find some drugs, which I hate taking.
DR Google said something about an ITB, weak glutes and hamstrings, overpronating, blah blah blah.
So I rang a friend. He works at Fisher & Paykel. I see you're struggling to make the connection, but he's just one of those capable people who knows pretty much everything and you'd trust with your life. He's SO amazing, he gave up a successful physio business to do some business-y scholarship overseas, and now, what he does for a job is beyond my intellectual understanding. Anyways, I rang Johnmolloy. (And you might think his name is John..... Molloy, but they're actually amalgamated and he's called Johnmolloy. I'm sure it's a long story but I can't actually remember it.)
Gosh, I'm waffling tonight. I think it's the anti-inflammatories. I'm not good on drugs which is why I try to avoid them.
Anyway, the general gist that I got from Johnmolloy:
1 See a really good physio and get a whole lot of exercises to fix all the weak muscles in my body. Booked.
2. New shoes a good idea, but not as good an idea as some strengthening. (Now I need to change all my workouts to include 10 mins exercises and stretches.)
3. I can still run, within my limits. (It was too blimmin sore to run, think I'll be avoiding that for a while)
4. If biking feels good, go for it. (Biking it is)
5. It's a common runner's injury.
DID YOU HEAR THAT!!??? It's a runner's injury. I'm a runner. Johnmolloy said, so it must be true.
Wednesday 9 October 2013
Training Plan
Well, I spent hours yesterday sorting a training plan. I used to love training plans, researching different things I 'should' be doing, setting up my days with a variety of sessions.... then within a couple of weeks they would be discarded, empty of any actual sessions to match those planned.
But, I've managed to maintain some actual training over the last month. Windtraining excepted, where I missed 2 out of 4 sessions over two weeks, but that was never going to be a winner was it. I'll blog about the torture of windtraining another day.
Anyway, I spent hours on this plan. Googling different ones, considering what my goals are, and then exploring ways to use my Garming. Check out this work of art.
Pink bits are bikes I've done. Blue bits are runs I've done. Yellow and purple bits are my new workouts planned, mostly imported straight from the Garmin training website. So, I can click on those runs and it tells me this:
That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO cool. And it will upload to my watch, and my watch will tell me what to do!!!!!!!!!! I'm envisaging this Army Major type voice screaming "Warm up over - 2 minute interval fast pace, GOGOGO!!!" and "You're going TOOOO SLOOOOW! Think this is a picnic???" and then after 2 minutes a lovely soothing voice "oooh, well done, now you can have one minute slow jog for a little rest".
It's going to do wonders for my training. Maybe. If only it could actually run for me too.
But, I've managed to maintain some actual training over the last month. Windtraining excepted, where I missed 2 out of 4 sessions over two weeks, but that was never going to be a winner was it. I'll blog about the torture of windtraining another day.
Anyway, I spent hours on this plan. Googling different ones, considering what my goals are, and then exploring ways to use my Garming. Check out this work of art.
Pink bits are bikes I've done. Blue bits are runs I've done. Yellow and purple bits are my new workouts planned, mostly imported straight from the Garmin training website. So, I can click on those runs and it tells me this:
That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO cool. And it will upload to my watch, and my watch will tell me what to do!!!!!!!!!! I'm envisaging this Army Major type voice screaming "Warm up over - 2 minute interval fast pace, GOGOGO!!!" and "You're going TOOOO SLOOOOW! Think this is a picnic???" and then after 2 minutes a lovely soothing voice "oooh, well done, now you can have one minute slow jog for a little rest".
It's going to do wonders for my training. Maybe. If only it could actually run for me too.
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