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I had a nice morning jaunt (3 miles @ 7.30s, got lost only three times) around tiny city of Maastricht, NED. Achilles was today way better than I could expect based on the self-caused pain due to yesterday's adventure to get here (lots of walking and sitting in various forms of transportation). This day will be spent by sitting and listening to various presentations (on interesting topics of course), but I'll meet the empty streets again tomorrow morning.
And yes, this does not suck.
Today: 3 miles @ 8.00 pace.
At first the achilles was a little too stiff, but I decided to give a try and run (the whole) 3 miles. After 1k striding started to feel easier, but left leg felt still relatively stiff. At the traffic lights around 1.5 miles I had a exclusive chance to do some stretching which - of course - helped. Then I conquered some mud, cold water, more mud and many many cyclists with no lights. And I was the only one smiling in the cold dark evening. To make it clear - it didn't suck.
It's a long long way to travel (and wishes that the old glute/hamstring pain is gone) before I'm back. But I think that there's a chance. Nice.
Sunday I did a bike ride during which it started snowing. It means that the Sun is away for the next few months. Nice. Then I steared NYC marathon online and wore my Grapevine shirt just to remember where my mind was wandering (in US that is).
On Monday I had a day of passive rest since I travelled to Tampere and back. The real reason was to give some slack for the achilles. Today, just 40 minutes ago I ran 4x400m + 1x800m with walking rest of 200m (on slightly slippery road and 25F...). Operated achilles was ok if you don't mind the stiffness. Yay!
Baby steps, baby! Yeah!
After winning a 5 day long but uneven battle with sore throat and cold I returned to the more or less continuous streak of core training. In order to keep things interesting, I walked with Lil' D and sweetie for 45 minutes on Wed and on Thu I repeated that and added 15 minutes.
But today I walked to the indoor track, changed my shoes and gear and RAN. Well, I ran and walked, but still this is the start. I did 200, 400, 800, 400, 400 and 200 meters (@ extremely easy pace and smile on my face) with walking rest of 200 meters. Achilles is darn stiff but it's not hurting. In order to get some sweat going I spent 20 minutes on Concept2 (a rowing machine). Now I gotta remember the baby steps. Luckily, the stiffness will keep me alert (I hope). I'm still far from decent running streak, but it's a start.
What a fun morning!
Marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon, marathon and Grapevine!
I'm slowly transforming into a bike snob. I bought a brand new bike for commuting.
Of course for a REAL bike snob buying a low budget Kona is nothing more than a pitiful act conducted by some wanna-be. The best choice for sure would be fixing your own bike. I don't care, since I had my reasons:
- My old faithful Marvil is giving up and I'm sure that his future will be close to taking care of my commuting during the winter - in snow and on ice.
- Next spring Lil' D will be ready for some bike trips (in addition to baby jogger) and I DON'T want that he would have a crash course of Finnish cursing caused by me pedaling the heaviest Marvil around while he's enjoying the scenery from his bicycle seat.
The recovery is going good. Only thing is that core workouts in a repeat mode are loosing their edge. Where's the scenery, where's the smell of pain?
And good luck to Mark B. and Ben I. at Chicago on next Sunday! Kick ass!
I'm ready to kick some asphalt - now!
But no. The recovery is still in progress. The old pain in the achilles is gone and that's freakin magnificent! The skin and "the wound" are still sort of stiff and I'm only able walk at really really pedestrian pace. Accordingly, I have to drive my silly ass to work and back (roughly 2.5 miles). Next week I'm allowed to start biking (not with cleats, though) which helps my mind.
Soon, it's kick-ass time.... Berlin 2011!!!!
I had a chance to see how does the scar look like. Of course as a nerd I had to take photo...
