If it’s not one thing it’s another!

UGH! This is not the post I was hoping to write, after basically taking 10 days off other than a bit of swimming to get my back and hip straightened out and parking any real notion of training while taking my boys on a weeks vacation including 15 hours spent walking around Seaworld and San Diego Zoo and Safari Park over 3 days I throw out my knee while messing about with my boys in the swimming pool. Nothing major but major enough to mean I skipped this Sunday’s scheduled 4 hour brick and spent several hours wrapping it in ice, thank you Moji!

With Vineman in two weeks, the fitness is seeping out of me and the weight creeping on, not the solid month of training that I hoped June would be and not a good start to July.

Post Vineman I have a week’s downtime after which I start a 17 week plan to get me to the start of Ironman Arizona.

Hopefully in one piece!

Twingered!

It was nothing special, simply standing up did it and I felt it pop. My lower back just slipped out of alignment…ugh. The last time this happened was a few weeks before the Santa Clarita Marathon last November so I knew what was needed, some TLC from my friendly Chiropractor unfortunately she had retired! So after a couple of conversations with a friend in the know in terms of local resources I had in hand the numbers of a local Chiro and a Physiotherapist. With only four weeks to go till Vineman I don’t really have the luxury of time and I know it would be a fine balancing act between the final weeks of training, some therapy recovery and a decent race.

I have a pretty good health plan through my job so I decided to go to both and be pretty aggressive in treating it…if nothing else it would give me a insight into what the two disciplines thought. To get to the Chiro I needed a prescription so a quick trip to the Urgent Care clinic took care of that. So here are the conclusions:

Physio; poor flexibility (shocker!) in hamstrings, quadriceps and back forward and back, hips vertical balance is pretty good but they are weak, I have a series of follow ups next week to get into the therapy

Chiro; poor flexibility (again a shocker!) in hamstrings, quadriceps and back also rotationally. Leg muscle development is unbalanced, all quads (from running and cycling) interesting question was I pusher or a puller on the pedals and did I like climbing…hence the over developed quads and under developed hamstrings. My spine is out or alignment in the T6/7 and also around the L4/5 area, again a follow up next week in terms of the therapy

The good news is that with all the prodding and pushing I got yesterday afternoon it feels a lot better but it’s not right yet so the rest of this weekend will be easy and each day will be filled with the stretches given to me and most likely an easy week next week… more news to follow Monday and Tuesday.

Sixteeen and Scooby Doo!

Backed right off the pace just to get it done without any further twingery;

Spent the afternoon chasing the meddling kids around Universal Studios;

So starts vacation proper, well after a quick trip to the gym…

Twingered!

Twinge + Injured = Twingered!

My knee…actually my left Quadriceps tendon is sore. It’s been kinda sore all week, I had a pretty fast 6 miler; 46:42 on Tuesday, it was only +30 seconds off my 10k PR pace. I laid off the weights Tuesday lunchtime and had and easier run on Wednesday; 6.2 miles; 51:52  and Thursday was on the bike for an hour. Today I woke up late and had to double up at the gym at lunchtime; treadmill 6 miles; 48:01 minutes and then core and weights…slightly extended lunchtime, but hey I worked for the man for 13 hours yesterday. 

I have had it taped with KTTape since Tuesday and have iced it when I can, no NSAIDS; I would sooner know about the pain than mask it.  I am early enough in my plan that a day or two off won’t be a drama…and that’s what I am going to keep telling myself!

Tomorrow I have a 16 miler, then we; the fam are off to my company’s annual picnic so no relaxing there. Sunday we head to San Diego on vacation so expect blogging to be a bit spotty and from my iPhone.