No pain, no gain.
Week 8 of 18
21km | Easy
I had 21kms on Uncle Hal's program this morning and following Flash Duck's advice, I elected to just run laps of Centennial Park. This would enable me to bail out and head home should my ribs give me too much trouble.
I had a good day yesterday with the ribs giving me only a little pain here and there. I woke this morning however very uncomfortable.
I put this down to taking an anti-inflam before bed last night. Whilst this enabled me to have a good nights sleep, it probably allowed me to sleep in positions that I shouldn't have - so in turn it i guess it aggravated the injury.
Anyway, I was determined to give a long run a go after a successful 15 min run on Friday night and a trot with Jackson last night.
So the plan was 6 laps of the walking path (about 3.6kms) and to call it quits if the pain gets to much. I started pretty slow and ran a conservative pace for most of the way. I bumped into tri-girl Ellie80 after about 45mins who was making her way down for a run with the girls. I said to Ellie that it felt like I was running with a stitch - and that was pretty much how it remained for the rest of the run.
I ended up completing the 6 laps in a slow 2:09:03 and was sweating like I'd just spent 2 hours in a sauna.
As CoolBlogger Fem_Physique said the other day in a comment on my blog - no pain, no gain. Now aren't her achievements an inspiration for head-down-bum-up hard work ! Yikes !
Hopefully I'll be able to resume my full program this week with little disruption.
Mood: ---> 
I had 21kms on Uncle Hal's program this morning and following Flash Duck's advice, I elected to just run laps of Centennial Park. This would enable me to bail out and head home should my ribs give me too much trouble.
I had a good day yesterday with the ribs giving me only a little pain here and there. I woke this morning however very uncomfortable.
I put this down to taking an anti-inflam before bed last night. Whilst this enabled me to have a good nights sleep, it probably allowed me to sleep in positions that I shouldn't have - so in turn it i guess it aggravated the injury.
Anyway, I was determined to give a long run a go after a successful 15 min run on Friday night and a trot with Jackson last night.
So the plan was 6 laps of the walking path (about 3.6kms) and to call it quits if the pain gets to much. I started pretty slow and ran a conservative pace for most of the way. I bumped into tri-girl Ellie80 after about 45mins who was making her way down for a run with the girls. I said to Ellie that it felt like I was running with a stitch - and that was pretty much how it remained for the rest of the run.
I ended up completing the 6 laps in a slow 2:09:03 and was sweating like I'd just spent 2 hours in a sauna.
As CoolBlogger Fem_Physique said the other day in a comment on my blog - no pain, no gain. Now aren't her achievements an inspiration for head-down-bum-up hard work ! Yikes !
Hopefully I'll be able to resume my full program this week with little disruption.
Mood: --->
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on Sunday, February 04, 2007 at 9:33 AM.
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hey gronk - good to see you out there - I'm glad that the ribs held together ok - good on you for managing 2 hours plus some with a stitch! i would have gone nuts!
You got it done Gronk. Out for a long time too, which, in one way, is good.
I think you have the right mental aptitude for 25 laps of a 400m track ;)
Thats why the park is so good. Heaps of variations to run and you are still near home. Glad the ribs were ok mate.
Man, that's tough, doing 2 hours in pain. Knowing you can push through that should make the business end of the marathon seem like a breeze.
And ... Go Jackson!
Nice work mate - good to see you are getting on top of those ribs.
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