Well folks, its been a hot minute since I have written on here about running. Well, in March, March 4th to be exact I got injured. The outer part of my foot was so sore I could hardly put weight on it. I waited a week, ran again, re-injured my foot even more. I waited another week, ran again and re-injured it again. At this point I could hardly walk. I was hobbling around like a potato and rubbing my foot on a golf ball twice a day, stretching and foam rolling. Which thank goodness cured my injury but at this point I knew it was time for new runners. But as one would guess this happened at an optimal point in my life, exams were coming, I got a cold, one week turned into three, by the time I got new runners it was time to prep for Europe and to be honest I was slightly demotivated as I knew the first run would be a wee challenging, to say the least.
Alas, after my European adventure and a week of the post travel cold and jetlag I got back on the horse (or the sidewalk I should say). WELL my allergies are angry as it is, my lungs are angry that I have allergies, and my bowels are getting used to a healthy diet again so yah know. The first run wasn’t bad but it wasn’t awesome either.
Now, when I had the injury I did workout. I did upper body strength, endurance workouts and body weight training. BUT nothing compares to the motion of running for my lungs. Running is one of those sports that to me is hard. Its harder than doing a 3 and half minute free skate, its harder than synchro, and its hard to stay motivated because there are literally no external consequences. You are literally the only person who knows you didn’t run.
Its hard. That is what I will say. My lungs are the type that MUST at least twice a week run so they don’t lose full ability to run at their fullest capacity. As you may or may not know, running has a totally different effect on my lungs than biking, circuit training and the 30,000 steps we did a day in Europe!
My first week back and up to now have honestly been really hard. Little did I know, after reading some Pinterest blogs, that running in the heat can take your body weeks to get used to. So I don’t feel too bad that my time has slowed down by a full minute.
I have now started a new Nike running plan on my sophisticated app because frankly, its pretty boring to the same monotonous run day after day so these include benchmarks, recovery runs, and long runs. Ah exciting times I lead in my life. It’s the little thing folks. I hope everyone has enjoyed this fun update and stays tuned for some more.
ps. featured image is my new mode of running transportation the Mizuno Wave Rider 20 runners in the fitting shade of blue
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