Well another week has past and the only real changes has been with the weather. Finally we are getting our Spring and this week we are going to hit 18C. The mornings are still cool which is perfect for running and the afternoons are warming up nicely.
Not a whole lot of change with my leg/foot injury, still just holding on. I have had a few sessions with a PT and things were looking really good at the end of last week so I got back on the bike and did a 1:30 ride on the trainer then went for a 5k run. This was the first time that I had bike or running shoes on in over a week and things went well. I was testing out a new power meter that I had bought earlier in the week and wanted to see what it would give me for watts. The unit is the Polar 600 and it measures watts from chain tension so I was curious to see its consistency. I did two 20 min time trials and was consistently at 300 watts. Not having done any real exercise in over a week, this was a good wake up, especially heading out for a run afterwards. I felt strong and my time was OK at 24 min, and after a good stretch everything still felt good, just a little bit tender which I fully expected. On Sunday I decided I would go out for a 10K run at a slow pace just to get back in the groove and it turned out to be a horrible run. For some reason my breathing was way off and I found myself taking short breaths and feeling winded. This was running in my endurance zone so I should not have felt this way. Oh well, I continued on and it wasn't until the last km that my foot started to twinge, then in the last 200m I had a couple jolts of sharp pain. A good stretch afterwards and some ice didn't seem to help a lot. This morning was the same thing as last week, mild pain on the outer muscle of my lower leg and pain on the outer side of my foot.
As I have mentioned before, Florida 1/2 Ironman is getting really close so I have some decisions to make with respect to my training. Do I hit the swim and bike hard and stay off the run?, do I forget about Florida and rest and get ready for the next event? I really want to do Florida but not at the expense of losing a couple more months. I might even go to Florida and just do the swim and bike, I have the trip booked anyways and it would still be a good experience to get those distances under my belt. I'm a little up in the air right now.
Hopefully I will be back to a full schedule soon, I find the busier I am, the happier I am. I love chaos. If things are slow I tend to make stuff up and it drives my wife crazy.
I watched Ironman Arizona yesterday on a webcast and was a little excited thinking that I will be doing this race in November. The 25mph winds on the bike was a little unnerving though. But what a finish! Imagine racing for 8.5 hours to have 4 people finish within 2 minutes of each other. Sorry to hear Randy's son, Anders, had to pull out after a terrific swim and bike with what looks like the same injury as I have. He's young, he'll recover quickly...hope he is feeling better soon!
Hope everyone's training is going well,
Scott
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