Thursday, May 3, 2007
Injury - again!
Eighteen weeks is not enough time to train for a Marathon when you haven't been running at all. Most training programs I've found prefer that you have been running 25-30 per week for a few months before you start the 16-18 week training for the Marathon. So once I started researching how to train for a Marathon I quickly understood that what I want to accomplish is somewhat unreasonable and that I'd be training at the verge of injury. Well, this has turned out to be the case. Week 3 I strained my right calf and had to take 3 days off. Last week my right calf and hamstring were bothering me and I had to take it easy for a few days. Yesterday I pulled my left hamstring while on a 'tempo run" (3 miles at a pace faster than my target race pace this weekend). I had to take a taxi home! So, I'll take a few days off with ice, aspirin and stretching and hopefully be able to make the race this weekend. Instead of trying to go out at 8:50-9:00 this weekend I'm going to go out at ~9:30 pace and just try to finish!
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