Dan,

Nice week, sir, nice week.

For me, it's been an absolute sh*tfest, and I'm really bummed. To make a long story short, I've been dealing with patellar tracking issues for the past couple weeks. Talked w/ the sports medicine doc and he asked me what changed: when this all started, it was a change in shoes. I stopped using the shoes, and there was minimal improvement, but now, I can't get things back to normal.

The major problem is that my gait's all fcked: I'm favoring my good leg until thing loosen up, usually not until 5 miles in. The doc and PT said it was okay to train thru, but after a botched tempo attempt, I simply said screw this and took a few days off.

Week total: a suck-*** 29.

My PT and Sports Doc thinks this is a 2-3 week injury, but everything I've read puts it longer. Anyone know anything about this injury? Right now, I'm going to PT 3x a week and Xtraining by doing pool running 2 hrs. per day.

Also: on the off-chance the docs are right and it's 2 weeks of downtime, how much fitness will I lose if I cross train hard?

Ack, this sucks!!!! Please keep me motived with your kickass weeks of training!

Great week, Dan. That's amazing and right on time for the marathon. I take it that 11 miles easy is 90 minutes of running?

Tusca, tough break, but I think those 100-mile weeks aren't going to leave you as quickly as you think.

I might as well post mine, since I just ran a big 5k PB. I even ran 30 miles on Wednesday/Thursday, just like the big boys.

AUGUST 13 ? AUGUST 19

Monday ? off
Tuesday ? off
Wednesday ? 4k am, 16k pm with 8k rosedale tempo in 31:12 (15:41/15:31), felt a little awkward but ran very strong
Thursday ? 6k at 3 pm, 21k at 7 pm, very tired afterwards
Friday ? 6k
Saturday ? 13k, five strides, felt recovered
Sunday ? 5k in 17:44, splits of 3:32, 10:33, 14:11, rusty start without strides, ran very strong, good kick. 800 m time trial in the evening in 2:26 (73/73).

85 km

http://This message has been edited by aurang (edited Aug-20-2007).

Nice race Aurang.

Dan- what marathon are u currently training for?

M- 5.5m
T- 5.5m w/ 2x1M and 2m at HM pace
W- 5.5, felt tired
R- 5.5, tired, new born up all night
F- 5.5
S- Planned 5k, got off course w/in 5min. Me and another guy ran hard for 15min and then tempo'd back to finish line in about 22min. Figure we got about 4mls in. short cool down.
S- rest. lack of sleep and allergies really had me worn out. took an ok nap. hoping to race another road mile next saturday.

Get better Tuscaloosa.

M-8.25 miles easy 6:56 avg
T-6.25 miles easy 6:39 avg
W-10.25 with 4 mile tempo 5:39 avg, felt a little fatigued.
R-10.25 easy 6:39 avg with 10X~150m sprints incorporated.
F-off
Sa-3 mile warmup, then 10K race in 34:17. Took it out easy gauging to make sure I won this one; so wasn't set up to do anything special so finished it as a strong tempo effort. cooldown for 12 miles total.
Su-14 miles easy 6:53 avg, cut 20 short due to possible dehydration issues.
Total for week: 61 miles
--Volume still blows, but overall running much better and feeling decent most of the time. I still felt weak in the second half of the race despite never putting in a hard effort, so clearly I'm still recovering and need to be careful how hard I push it. Recovery time from workouts still LONG.

congrats Hubitron

I officially rename this the fertility thread.

Su: 16, first 11 at about 7:30 pace and last 5 around 8:00 pace. Is it obvious I ran the first 11 with a friend who is way faster than me? Took me about 2:00.
M: 4 recovery on treadmill
T: 9, with 10k tempo run at 6:15 pace. On tempos of longer than 4 miles, I am trying to run at goal HM pace.
W: 6 recovery
Th: 4 easy with strides
Fr: 6 easy
S: 4 a.m. with 2xmile, 5:48 each (goal 10k pace); 5 p.m. with last mile in 5:48.
Total: 54

My Saturday track workout got messed up. I had to cut the morning session short due to kid issues, so I wanted to get a third fast, 10k effort mile in and therefore finished the afternoon run with it. Racing a 10k next Saturday the 25th, but weather is suppposed to turn very hot and humid by the weekend. I was planning on running it hard, but if it's that hot I will run the first half slower than 6:00 pace and see how I feel.