First time out on the rough stuff for over 4 months today, it felt like the first time ever. Just a quick 2.9m/1500' up Buckden Pike, an out and back up and down the gill which is the shortest route. Legs felt a bit trashed and my left ankle is remarkably unstable.
First track session for nearly 3 months today, 8x300 off about 1.45 recovery, with 3m recovery before the last 3 reps. I was hoping for circa 60s, but it didn't happen.
62,63,63,61, stopwatch malfunction, 64, 65, 65.
Probably not a session real athletes would like due to the long recovery times, but i kept the quality high.
Nice one.
We generally do 300mtrs with 100mtr walk/jog recoveries.
Typically something like 2 x sets of 5, with a 400mtr jog between the two sets.
We also have a winter session on the roads which is 20 x 300mtrs with only 20second recoveries.... one of, if not the worst session we do.
Are you wearing a support/brace on your ankle? It is recommended that one be worn for 6-9 months after an ankle injury - they do not "support/brace" the ankle but help provide increased feed back to the Central Nervous System so that it can react more quickly and appropriately to any dodgy movements or positions.Originally Posted by mr brightside
You're absolutely right Mike, i should be doing, and for those exact reasons. The unstable ankle isn't the right one i rolled at fairfield, it's the left one that has been affected by posterior compartment syndrome. I'm doing a few sessions of soleus strengthening each week, but really i wasn't expecting it to be so floppy on the tussocks. I'll probably use a luekotape stirrup this weekend.
I just walked the 100m and stopped for 30s of soleus mobilisation exercises in the shade of a convenient tree. It's surprising how quickly your recovery time seems to tick away!
Oh yeah, and the college had had someone drive a grader over the track so it was like running on a beach. The top half inch was very loose, but maybe it will sort out the problem of potholes that tend to occur on it.
Last edited by mr brightside; 08-09-2023 at 07:00 AM.
This is very true.... and it ticks away quicker the further you get into a session!
Almost all rep sessions I find seem shorter in time than they are, I still find it hard to believe a rep of carr bridge drive takes me 1.50s, it feels like 30s less. It reminds me of Einstein's theory of general relativity, in which time moves at whatever speed the observer dictates. Very much like the hourglass in professor slughorns office in Harry Potter, which trickles away variably in accordance with the quality of conversation, the quality of the training will dictate the passage of the time.
I love a bit of quantum mechanics on a hot evening, this is perhaps the subject of the next big today's thread. It'll sit well beside 'Taoism in fellrunning'.
Yesterdays route was too rough really, i don't recall it being that bad, i crocked my right ankle again but it hasn't done anything serious.
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4.8m/1360' or something like that, up to the trig at Middle Tongue, which is suffering from weathering. It was hard to keep going on the moor, both on the way up and on the way down. It looks like a nice grassy cruise on the descent, but it's quite lumpy and technical. Never mind, i've survived and i've bagged the hardest trig that you can do from Buckden, just a mere matter of Birk's Fell next week and that's them all done. Hopefully the combination of thursday track and sunday fell will suit my requirements more; i didn't feel as though tuesday Harriers and saturday parkrun was enough.
Last edited by mr brightside; 11-09-2023 at 01:08 PM.
A cooler evening tonight, 8x300 off about 1.15 rests with a 3m rest after 5.
Times were...
64, 63, 64, 63, 63, 63, 62, 62.
Far better consistency than last week with no tailing off at the end. I was talking to a coach who was there with his runner; he was doing 6x half mile off 2m rests, which sounds to me like 6x800. The coach was adamant my phlegm issue I still have with my lungs is a bacterial infection, and advised me to revisit the docs.
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