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Apr 3/02 — Carlene: ITB trouble
April 1, 2002 Mar 18 - Off (drive home from London)
Mar 19 - Bike 30 min. Clyde spinervals tape - bike odometer at 1000K
Mar 20 - Club run. Do hills. 8 x 500 m. Approx 11K
Mar 21 - Off (snow storm)
Mar 22 - Off
Mar 23 - Bike 30 min. Clyde spinervals tape
Mar 24 - LSD run. Approx 18.3K
Run 29.3K, Crosstrain 60 minMar 25 - Off (massage)
Mar 26 - Bike 45 min, Intervals spinervals tape (snow
storm, sore foot)
Mar 27 - Club run. Tempo effort. Approx 5K
Mar 28 - Off
Mar 29 - Bike/Run brick. Bike 45 min, Intervals tape, run 3K
Mar 30 - Off
Mar 31 - LSD run. Approx 20.8K
Run 28.8K, Crosstrain 90 min*********************************************
Well, the weather has lead to some changes in my schedule over the past 2 weeks. In particular, the various snow dumps we have had caused me to replace some running with biking and move some of my runs around. Overall things went pretty well though. I am particularly proud of my hill run I did March 20th
where I managed to hang with the gang (including my coach) and do 8 x 500 m hill repeats. WOO HOO!My long run March 24th was a bit odd. I had some ITB pain in my right leg towards the end (on a big hill) and got stuck running a lot in the mud at the side of the road due to traffic. I also got a blister on the top of my left foot, just down from my big toe. My
sock was all bloody and stuck to my foot. EEW! I felt both horrified and pleased. I guess I'm a real runner now. Then I developed a small pain on the top of my left foot. I didn't think anything of it at first - I thought I had bruised/irritated the foot due to walking funny from the blister. Well... I have been very careful with my running this week trying to get rid of this foot pain. It isn't budging.Sunday I switched to different shoes for my LSD run in the hopes that would help. During my run I got to enjoy the start of spring and it was WONDERFUL. Birds flying around, plants poking up, snow melting, even the occasional bug here and there. I completed my long run, again getting ITB problems from the big hill on my route. I am stretching diligently because I am
sure that my 1/2 marathon in Kentucky will have some hills to deal with and I want to get this ITB stuff under control. As to my foot, although it doesn't feel any worse after my long run, it doesn't feel any better either.I am off to the chiropractor this week and hopefully he will have some insight on this. (He is also a runner, coach and has a Masters in Sports Physiology.) In the meantime I am putting Myoflex on my foot, being nice to it and icing some (although
there isn't any swelling - just some pain).That's the news from Kanata. Talk to y'all in 2 weeks!
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