Yeah, I feel good, back on the road with wind in my hair. I also did the 3 sets of stairs by Santa Monica canyon. Stretch deep after, took my time. Awesome day.
I iced my ankle and took it easy for the rest of the day, this is my week off and I am taking full advantage of it. :)
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I have been on this roller coaster ride of “yeah, I think I am ok now to start running” and “oh, I am still not 100%”. Last week, went to see the doctor for a return check up. She said my peroneal tendon is healing but not complete, she also said that resting means, no activity! I took it to mean, as long as I am not running, I am resting, so the spinning, lifting, walking doesn’t count. I guess I was wrong. :(
My doctor did admit that even if she would put me in a walking cast for two weeks, she can not garentee that I would hit the ground running. In fact, I would probably need rehab after that. I strongly oppose this suggestion and we agreed on a alternate training schedule.
As is, I am working with a modified training schedule for February 1st marathon since I have been off of running for about three weeks, the doctor asked me to cut the mileage further down to 50% for two weeks and if I feel ok, do 75% for a week. If I am doing well with that, continue on with my regular training. But if at anytime, the pain returns, I must scrap the marathon idea and sit out for the next one. I was VERY disappoited at this news for a few days (hence, no posting). This can not happen to me two marathons in a row, I just can’t accept it!
I restarted running on my treadmill both Saturday and today, just slow short runs. I felt good on both days which is encouraging. I just have to take it easy and NOT overdo it to send me right back to where I started.
A year ago, I would not have even thought about running a marathon, now… I want it so bad, I can taste it! I see the problem with training for a marathon, the journey is so long, anything can go wrong. I am certainly not the first person to sit out a race, I just didn’t think it would happen to me. Arrogant, huh? The bright side of this story is, this has made me very humble, it’s like learning to walk again. At my peak condition, I wouldn’t run anything less than 5 miles, it was not worth getting dressed for. Now…I am grateful to run 2 with no pain. Funny how perspective changes.
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I was ok with not running the race due to my injury. I went out there on Saturday to meet up with my club members who are running the race. To show support, to wish them luck, ran a symbolic mile with them. It was all good.
Then the news came Saturday late night, due to the raging fires that were burning all over Southern California. The Pasadena Marathon official was consulting with AQMD (air quality management district) to see if it is safe to run. The temperature raised to 92 degrees in Pasadena on Saturday, they were predicting about the same on race day. Between the road closure due to fire, race participants unable to even pick up the packets on Saturday at the Expo. The race officials sent email to all participants at 4am Sunday morning to cancel the race.
I feel the pain for all my friends at the running club, I know how disappointed they all were.
Who could have predicted this?
Ran gingerly, trying to pay attention to the injured area to notice any wierd sensation. I felt fine. Told myself to only do 3 miles, the mind goes right back to where I left off three weeks ago as far as mileage is concerned. I have to reconciled the body with the mind and just be grateful to be back running.
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I am really feeling the effect, I have been off of running for three weeks. I think my heel is healed, there are certainly no pain. What I have is stiffness and tightness, and this general sense of restlessness and discomfort from lack of workout. It’s really affecting my mood too, I am just cranky.
I have decided it’s time…starting next week, gradually build back my mileage to pre-injury. I am only 11 weeks away from my next marathon. I got to get a move on.
This is the Pasadena marathon weekend, if I hadn’t gotten injured, I’d be running it. Making a new personal benchmark of my first marathon… I wish all the runners at this race best of luck!!!
For the first time in three weeks since my injury, I went to LA Leggers Saturday meeting place. Today is the day before the Pasadena Marathon, so my group is only going to do one mile to loosen up, we would attend the club meeting to discuss the LA marathon situation after.
People asked about why I was missing in action for weeks, we hang out a little bit then went for the one mile run. The mood was very light and relaxed, everyone talked and joked around. I felt no pain in my left heel and ankle, the run stretched me out, it was just what I needed. I know how much I miss running, but I didn’t really FEEL it until I went out there today. I was so happy to be out and moving, like I was meant to be.
The meeting afterwards were attended by hundreds of club members, we were encouraged to run the Surf City Marathon instead of LA because of the date change. Surf City will hold the space open for the Leggers because our club has been a big supportor over the years of the race. We will have to modify the training a bit, since the race is February 1st and LA was originally Feb 16th (now moved to May 25th). People had different opinion about whether to boycut LA and have everyone register the San Diego Rock N Roll. It was a good meeting.
I feel like now there is a course of actions laid out for me, I need to slowly get back to my training. I created a customized training schedule for the remaining days left until February 1st. It feels good to have a plan, now the challenge is to hold back and not get hurt again. :)
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Disturbing news about the LA Marathon. For 23 years, LA marathon had occurred on the first Sunday of March every year. In September, Frank McCourt (who owns LA Dodgers) acquired the rights to operate LA Marathon. They gave in the City’s demand that the race be moved from its traditional Sunday in early March to the Monday Presidents’ Day (February 16, 09)
The calendar change was designed to address complaints form religious leaders, who blamed race-day road closure and traffics congestion for making it difficult for their congregations to get to church. I mean, are you kidding me? Who runs marathon on a Monday? In addition, President’s day is NOT a holiday for a lot of people, I for one, have NEVER gotten that day off but I was willing to take a vacation day to run it.
So to add insult to injury, it was announced yesterday, that the race day will be moved AGAIN to May 25th, 09. Need I say more? My running club – LA Leggers, one of the official training programs for LA Marathon, has about 1300 members training for this race. We are in peak training season, so now…at the end of February; we have no race to run. Is this lovely? Angry emails started to circulate last night amongst the members.
I took action quickly this morning, and signed up for the very limited space Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach. The race allows 15,000 runners but only 1,500 are to run the full marathon because of the bike path route limitation. I figured most people are going to scramble to find a race to run in the area, I better get on it. Forget about LA, if these people don’t know how to respect the runners and all they care about is their political agenda, I want no part of it. I hope they go bankrupt, as it stands, they were in financial trouble (I wonder why), and they didn’t pay the elite runners who won the race two years ago. Can you imagine that? Runners that run as a business, run to win money, they won the race but didn’t get paid. Those people are already boy-cutting the race; they are predicting the race participation will be down by 30 to 50%.
I still have yet to hear the backlash from this idiotic move from our club officials as to what are all the people going to do. No one can maintain peak training condition for three months. Should be interesting, I’ll keep everyone posted. :)
Meanwhile, check out the Surf City Marathon link.
I did about 2.5 mile on it, keeping my ankle straight, I feel ok. It’s good to work up a sweat. No pain on the left foot, yeah!!! :)
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Leisurely walk, did a little shopping and browsing along the way, had brunch. While we walked back, I was feeling the tightness in my injured ankle and heel, so we slowed down. It’s nice to walk together, we got a chance to really talk and re-connect, we both are so busy working all the time. When it comes to my workout, I am usually very focused and goal-oriented, hence, tend to leave him behind and do my own thing. One of the unexpected benefit of getting injured, I got a chance to slow down and see different pictures. Good Saturday. :)
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This is my resolve and acceptance of not running Pasadena Marathon, a goal that I have had for 5 months. Life goes on, so do goals. My new focus for now is healing and get well so I can pick my training back up and continue running with my running club. LA Marathon is about 3 months away, so I will have plenty of time to continue building my running base.
I also printed the training schedule from my running club for the LA marathon, I marked my calendar. Having something real and new to focus on feels good.
For now… I am going to go take a walk around the neighborhood and take it easy. This is also a new concept for me…”resting”… :)
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