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Tag: Recovery
May 8, 2013
Mississauga 10k Race Report
Surprise! Date Event Goal Time Chip Time Gun Time 2013/05/04 Mississauga 10k 1:07:00 1:03:39.4 1:05:59.0 For almost every race I’ve done, I publicly obsess about my race prep, goals and strategy. There are usually blog posts, social media posts and the requisite picture of my gear all laid out. This race was a very different story… I registered to run the Mississauga (full) Marathon way back in October 2012. Months later I also volunteered to be a pacer. However, as you probably know, I finally succumbed to an ongoing injury a month ago and I pulled out from pacing. However,[…continue reading]
May 7, 2013
Preliminary Diagnosis: I’m An Idiot
A lot of people have been asking me about my injury. I know a lot more now than I did when I had to stop running a month ago. I’ve gone through a battery of tests and seen a few specialists and I think I have a preliminary diagnosis: Posterior tibial impingement, compartment syndrome and tarsal tunnel syndrome. Let me go through the whole story… The Meandering Trail to Diagnosis The major symptom was that I felt numbness and burning in my calves and feet, particularly my left calf and foot, after running about 2km. I had a long[…continue reading]
January 31, 2013
Overtrain Train Wreck
You’d think I’d have learned by now. I went through this just a few months ago! I was so proud of myself that I ran 43km over 5 separate runs. It was my first real week of true training since the Goofy Challenge. But, I paid for it. By the end of Sunday’s 10 mile run I was struggling and suffering. I got hit with all the symptoms of the classic overtrain. I didn’t see it at first. On Monday after the run I was cranky, moody, tired and restless. And sore, really sore in my calves. I felt motivation[…continue reading]
