Training Log Archive: schnitzer

It took a late Friday night watching a movie to finally bring my cold out.

Left hamstring tender today, both top and bottom after yesterday's run. Also slight pain in the left knee after approx 5mins of running. All this at a snail's pace. All in all enough to say I'm officialy injured.

Hamstring a little tender but generally ok to stretch it out.

Been reading up on my log from when I had a similar thing last year, working out how I may have got it working again. Interesting.

Hmm, I haven't exactly been starving myself. Not worried as I remember it was the same when I came back from Portugal. Quite literally full of s**t for a few days so back to just being metaphorically that way now thankfully.

Awful. Mostly.

A few minutes warming up then the idea was to push fairly hard, see how the left leg and right calf would respond to the hard, fairly flat surfaces. Just like the races at the weekend I never really got to hard, steady felt like max. Gasping for breath, leaking from the nose/throat and holding off a stitch pretty much the entire run.

I don't, unlike the rest of the family, have a cold but it's obviously in the system and I feel a little better about the lack of pace at the Närke events. Elisabeth was ill before even the first race and the boys, 1 by 1 went down with it as well. 2 are better now but the other 2 are still ill.

My left leg is still not working properly. A bit disappointed because usually all I have to do to fix myself is a few sit ups and some stretching. No problems with the hamstring but the gluteus area and knee are not happy.

On the positive side it's not proper pain, mostly just a lack of coordination. In comparison the cardio problems made the run significantly less enjoyable than anything that was happening with my left leg. Just got to keep going with the exercises and keep my fingers crossed.

The best thing was no problems at all with the right calf. It feels like problem solved which is great. However having had problems in that area for years I won't open the champagne until it works over 15km at 10bpm higher HR.

Tired after an evening working in the club hut cafe but this needed doing.

The usual story. Left hamstring stretches feel 'uncomfortable' and twist me up, left glute stretches loosen me off.

More general core coordination/strength session.

1 minute balancing after each core exercise.

A proper stretch of the hip flexors before a first run through of a new glute-centric core routine I've researched.

10 weeks to go until the O-Ringen and time to place the focus 100% on training. I don't really have to worry about the Jukola much as the club is not sending a strong team and unlike last year I'm already in a fairly good place to be given a long leg. Similarly some or all of the Ravinen 3-days and whatever informal Summer Series events I can get to can be considered training too.

Apart from the already discussed priority of sorting out my left side and the obvious one of getting better at running x days in a row I can't get away from this weight/fat issue. Improving body composition is just such an obvious and fairly easily achievable way of increasing running speed and decreasing the chance of injury.

I had a goal last year of getting under 83kg by the O-Ringen and almost made it. Actually I ended up going under 81kg at one point last Autum. So aiming high (or is that low) let's try and shed 6 kilos in the 10 weeks and go under 80kg.