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A week in training – being injured
Leading up to the southerns, my calf had been tight for a few weeks, I foam rolled and stretched but on the morning of the race, my shin was very sore. For the first time in forever I considered dropping out (I didn’t). After the race it was sore but not excruciatingly painful. Sunday = SLR but when I woke up my leg was killing me so I ditched the SLR and iced and rested (R.I.C.E) At this point I still didn’t know what was wrong, I thought it was most probably shin splints. I decided not to run this week to see how it was and to see whether I would be ok to race at the School Inter-counties. On Monday I began to get quite paranoid as I thought it might be a tibial stress fracture because it was so sore, even when I walked. I still don't know what it is but if it has not calmed down by next week I am going to go to the physio. Monday Swim 2.6km 40 lengths front crawl relatively fast 10 lengths arm pulling 20 lengths of alternate arm pull and front crawl 2 lengths cool down breaststroke Core work: (20 leg lifts, 50 crunches, 50 russian twists, 1:00 plank) x2 Tuesday Gym – am 20 minutes cross trainer (resitance 14) (20 lateral pull down) x3 Step machine – 10 minutes Rowing machine – 1500m Leg press x50 Swim – pm 2km swim 40 lengths front crawl 20 lengths arm pull Wednesday I was sad not to be able to go to training but it would have been a bad idea. Swim – am 2km 20 lengths front crawl 20 lengths alternate arm pull and front crawl 16 lengths arm pull 4 lengths breaststroke Gym- pm 20 minute cross trainer (resisatce 14) 150 reps adductor – 25kg 100 reps- 30kg Core work (1:00 plank, 50 weighted Russian twists, 50 crunches, 25 leg lifts, 1:00 plank with foam roller) 10 minute row Step machine Stretch Thursday Trial run day for Saturday 5 miles at an easy pace I planned to go on a short, easy run in one of my free periods. It turned out to be the complete opposite as you may have seen on my instgram. Beth,Alice and I went together and lets just say it was a run full of mnay laughs – aimed at me mostly. I slipped when trying to jump across a bog and fell straight in, I wqas coated in stinky mud; it was disgusting. My shin held up ok, it was quite sore towards the end of the run but I chose to run on satursday (in hindsight I would’ve chosen not to) Pm- Dance Friday Swim – am 2.6km 30 lengths front crawl 10 lengths alternate arm pull and front crawl 30 lengths arm pull 10 lengths breaststroke Saturday Race day – South East Inter-county Schools XC I really shouldn’t have raced, I should’ve listened to others, but I wanted to try and I also wanted to support Beth and Alice (+my mum was taking) The race went quite well, I placed 15th out of 74. I know that if I were in top form I could've placed in the top 10 or at least top 12. My shin and knee didn’t bother me too much when racing but after it was sore, no where near as bad as I thought it would be. I took ice packs with me so on the journey home I iced my shin to reduce inflammation. Sunday 2 mile recovery run- am I took it very slow. I have to say I didn’t enjoy it than much; slow, short runs are not my thing. Dance show – the rest of the day It was good fun, after months of working on our dances, we finally performed them. I was completely exhausted at the end of the day, hence the lack of blog post last night. I pretty much went to bed straight away after dinner. This week I am not going to run either (i hate injuries) I hope everyone had a good week! Imogen xx
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