Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Left knee thingy
Despite effusive praise of last weeks 5km comeback run, the top of my tibia in my left leg gave me quite a bit of grief during and afterwards. Some Goggling and a timely CoolRunning thread initially had me thinking that I had gotten a stress fracture (funny thing to do after 2 weeks recovery). However, I had a similar experience back in December, and got through it by switching to grass exclusively for my training runs.
Deciding not to risk anything, I put my feet up for a week (as one does when their house is on the market, and you are trying to keep it permanently immaculate). Booked in a podiatrist visit for yesterday, but a series of cancellations curtailed my trip to the city, and have had to take a rain check.
However, today I decided that based on past experience (I successfully ran through it in December), it was not going to be too big a risk to test it on grass. And like last time, grass brought no pain at all. My layman's diagnosis is that a stress fracture would have given some pain, so hopefully it is something more mundane. Will continue with the grass running whilst ever it yields no pain. Planning to get new orthotics and some professional advice on shoe selection - because I'm not spending enough money at the moment.
For the record, I churned out 6 km in just under 26 minutes - very comforable, although a couple of silly low 4:00's which was unnecessary. Not a fan of dew, as my feet were soaking wet after about 30 seconds. Would have gone 8km, but I was reminded early on in my run that being unable to use my right hand, my toenails were at the point where they would be confiscated from on-board luggage - added to the wet conditions and an early finish made sense.
Checked out a cool rental property in Bondi Junction today - literally 100m from Centennial Park. We're putting in an application - fingers crossed.
Deciding not to risk anything, I put my feet up for a week (as one does when their house is on the market, and you are trying to keep it permanently immaculate). Booked in a podiatrist visit for yesterday, but a series of cancellations curtailed my trip to the city, and have had to take a rain check.
However, today I decided that based on past experience (I successfully ran through it in December), it was not going to be too big a risk to test it on grass. And like last time, grass brought no pain at all. My layman's diagnosis is that a stress fracture would have given some pain, so hopefully it is something more mundane. Will continue with the grass running whilst ever it yields no pain. Planning to get new orthotics and some professional advice on shoe selection - because I'm not spending enough money at the moment.
For the record, I churned out 6 km in just under 26 minutes - very comforable, although a couple of silly low 4:00's which was unnecessary. Not a fan of dew, as my feet were soaking wet after about 30 seconds. Would have gone 8km, but I was reminded early on in my run that being unable to use my right hand, my toenails were at the point where they would be confiscated from on-board luggage - added to the wet conditions and an early finish made sense.
Checked out a cool rental property in Bondi Junction today - literally 100m from Centennial Park. We're putting in an application - fingers crossed.
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You're right - you'd have pain running on any surface with a stress fracture. I hope it's nothing serious.
Have you been doing any hammer or HJ training?
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Have you been doing any hammer or HJ training?
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