Yesterday when I woke up I just wanted to go back to sleep and stay in bed all day. My calves were sore, I had a headache and I was still tired. I couldn't go back to sleep though so I got up at 7:30 am and had breakfast. I seriously thought about not going training this morning because I was kind of scared that my body couldn't take it and I'd get into overtraining again (been there, done that). But after being up for a while I felt better and better and the only thing that could have held me back was my calves. I wanted to try a new workout today so I wasn't sure if it would be hard or not. But I did know that my calfs would hurt a lot because it involved a lot of jumping. Well, I wanted to give it a try so I got changed and headed out to Woolston Park at 9am. I used the 10min jog there as a warm-up and when I got to the park I started with 15min of running exercises such as knee lift, jumps, etc. I then did about 10min of tapping. This is supposed to help your muscles move faster. For example you stand in the skating position, both feet next to each other and then tap a line in front of you with the heel of your foot, put it back next to the other foot, tap the line… as fast as you can for 10 sec. The reps are really short but you have to do them as fast as you can. I did 6 different exercises (running on the spot as fast as I could, arm swing, touching line sideways…), each for 10 sec and repeated the whole thing three times. I couldn't do all the exercises I wanted to because my calves hurt too much and I didn't want to get an injury. After this I did some skipping for about 10min (both feet, one foot, backwards, "running"…). All in all it took me a bit more than 40min and with the jog there and back home it took me exactly an hour. In the afternoon I didn't do much. I put some Axa Nova on my calves to make them feel a bit better for training in the evening (didn't work though), went to the mall to buy a few things and watched German X Factor. I wasn't exactly looking forward to go training because I knew it would be tough with my sore calf muscles, but it turned out to be ok. After the 15min warm-up and some stretches we did 2 x 5km. I didn't really feel my calves but with a couple of laps to go in the first 5km, my hamstrings started to hurt. The second 5km was a bit harder than the first one, but we still didn't skate too fast. With about 10 laps to go my thighs started burning and I started to feel really tired (and hungry), but apart from that it was ok.
This morning though I could barely walk when I first got up. My calves were on fiiiiire… It got better after an hour or so though, reason enough to do my long run today. Yesterday night I wasn't too sure if I should do my long run today, but now I'm pretty positive about it even though I know that my calves will hurt like crazy again, but tomorrow is rest day so it doesn't really matter. I just hope they won't hurt anymore on Saturday, cos that's when the Southern Regionals are on and I don't really wanna have sore calves for that as it's already hard enough.
At 1:20pm I went for my long run. The sun was shining and it was about 14 degrees, so I really looked forward to it. But of course the sun got covered by a huge cloud 20min into my run and stayed away for the rest of it and because it was pretty windy too I got quite cold. In other words, it sucked.
I thought my calves would hurt but I didn't really feel them. All I could feel was my shin muscles from yesterday and they hurt pretty bad. However, I kept running and did two laps around Hagley Park. So with the run there and back I covered 18,05 km in 1 hour 40min. It was still a good run even though I didn't feel as good as I did on my last week's run but you can't always feel good so that's ok. I'm gonna rub some Axa Nova on my calves and shins again tonight and hope they'll feel a bit better tomorrow.
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