well it's been a while

yep it surely has been a long long time since i last blogged.
November last year.
well teh recovery sure wasnt fun, karen did let me start running 1min at a time. yep walk 4 and jo 1 x5....
took me ages to get anything resembling fitness back-then a slight setback in april with my back meant another month off and me lying on the floor for four days :(
still having pain in the hip which is rather annoying but when i do i just back it off.
Am basically running 4 days per week, sat and sun and tues and thurs with elliptical trainer on another day (or when my hip is too sore)

anyway have been back racing which is awesome, which is HARD, which is why am I doing this, which is this is awesome :)
not racing well of course.
jells park did the 6km in just over 30mins with 5 enforced walks,
balnarring just about killed me 4kms in just over 20mins
flemington 10km in 47:3x which i was super happy with-walked a few times after 8kms as i wasnt quite fit enough to race it-feet were aching which has happened a lot so now have domes in my shoes totry and alleciate the neuroma which is causing nerve pain in the toes!!

ballarat 15km with sore feet, i knew not to race so I ran with a friend and ran not too hard, went through the first 10 km in about 51:30ish and then decided to work a bit harder in the last 5km and was pleased to bring it home in iunder 25mins .. 5 mins slower than last year but hey i survived :)

on holidays now

oh here you go. this was a real jojo moment at school the other day. Went to walk out of the room and my foot slipped out from under me(a la banana peel style) honestly thought i was going to fall flat on my back but managed a kinda roll thing so i just landed sideway on my hands ina crouched position. it did hurt but it was funny. can believe the boys didnt see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

anyway feel like im starting to get back into my running a bit now. still about 10s per km off my training pace but a month ago i was about 30s off

was happy with tuesdays set of 1km,800x4 in 4:11 and then 3:18-3:27 for the 800

thursday 1x400,4x300 x2
90, then all 66-68 set 1
88 then 66-68 allowed to go faster in the last and pulled out a 61s which made me happy

but that set was faster yet felt easier than last week

looking forward to racing at brimbank

oh and stu and i had a nice dinner to celebrate 4 years on thursday... he's a good lad- it did take him a while to come to the party though :)

mwah mwah

The year in review

ok i plagiarised a little from Em's blog here and decided to review after reading hers.

By the way for all of you who think my spelling is all over the shop, its not my spelling,it's just my typing, i was quite surprised when i went to spell plagiarise that i wasnt quite sure how to spell it i actually went and checked it first.(and if i wanted to be grammatically more correct I could be, but OMG it would take me longer than thoughts just spilling onto the page!!!)

ANyway my year in review
Running
-beginning of the year was awesome
adult pbs in
400(65.1) gold at masters
800 (2.34.76)bronze at masters-and ran with a limp due to achilles
1500 (5.29.x) silver at the masters(and the event which caused the achilles.d'oh)

then got a gold in the 800 at the national masters(sounds better than it is though)

then the first of a few setbacks
injured and on cructhes due to my achilles. came back way too quickly
raced sandown (48 ish -only been back running couple weeks after 5-6 weeks off)
raced 15 kkm-did a pb 70/71, other races were here nor there

youyangs 15km racee, took a major tumble at the 12.5kms and still have not very pretty scars on the knees
then the half mara-pulled up limp the wed before, rested acouple of days and had the most painful run of my life. my feet were numb and aching and had to wal every few mins. missed my pb by a minute 1:44.x
raced the Tan knowing i shouldnt have-was limping in the warmup-had to stop and walk twice, still managed a pb, just 17:18
then the MAJOR setback of the year-diagnosed with the stress fracture of the hip(Karen later downraded to a stress reaction but treatment is identical so whats hte diff)
12 weeks off runnnig, started 3.5 weeks ago

LESSONs LEARNT
twice i ignored my body and twice i ended up on cructhes.
If limping into the stadium when walking-DO NOT RUN
If limping in the warm up and the pain is getting worse not better, DO NOT RUN

-no brainers really

-if i dont run, i get VERY fat. have put on 4-5 kgs in the 12 weeks downtime.

goal for next year- they dont have to be pbs, but i want to race the 400/800 at the states and run as well as i can
and please please please PRETTY please stay INJURY FREE


ps am on a detox, and seriously these cleansing tablets sure as hell cleanse the system.................. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

another 30mins and Happy New Year

yep got up and went for the run this morning.
30mins in blocks of 7.5mins. felt fine but some slight discomfort at the end. not limping or anything-just aware of the left hip(as i have been after hte elliptical)
rather than panic i headed onto the internet to check it out. Apparently it is quite normal to have some slight discomfot when comning back from a stress fracture, i noticed a few articles which described 'phantom pain' or the brain is thinking the pain there and another who said basically you become hyper alert to that site.
Im not overly worried and will mention to Karen. it onl lasted for a bit and wasnt pain.
so wouldve done just over 5kms but it felt better than last time so whilst i was still happy to have my walk breaks, i am getting there-SLOWLY

the PLAN
Stu says i will mainly be training with the 400m runners when i come back with a few slightly longer reps but no more than 600s. Given that i wont really have a base nor time to build one, we are going to probably have to work on shorter sharper.
i will only be racing the 400s and 800s at states this year.

i checked out Ems blog from 2007 to see what was probs next on my program(sorry Em-a bit of stalking there-lol)
after the 4x7.5mins for 3 non consecutive days and then the 3 x10mins(which i start next Tuesday) it appeared she did 4x10min and then 3x15mins and then was pretty much back to doing other speed and stuff, so i have my fingers crossed that im only two-ish weeks away from starting reps.

oh and i bought another Garmin-YES another garmin, as i killed hte last one by leaving it charging for about two weeks

am quite broke i have to say, been overspending a bit
-will need to tighten the belt a bit and hopefully also lose weight so the belt isnt quite so tight.... d'oh

happy New Year
NO resolutions for me, just try to enjoy my running, run some pbs, stay injury free, manage my back as best i can, and of course just enjoy the other things-and maybe buy a doggie :)

..its almost like real running

yep 30 mins of running today. im almost like a real runner! 4 lots of 7.5mins and it felt better than te last few times too. We went to Gellibrand park which is near the airport, nice soft ground small rolling hills but gee it was hot. i just went out and back-stu continued on with his group and apparently he and someone else had to jump over a snake that ACTUALLY reared up a bit, i woulda got BITTEN for sure......................... lol
then went out to lunch, dd my rehab
This is a hard hard exercise.(easier in shoes)
you get up onto you toes and then do squats in front of the mirror. the other one(i cant quite manage) is on one leg, up on the toe and then calf raises. i can do a one legged squat and tehn about 5 heel raises so i am at least getting better i suppose.
My physio always tells me i wont be able to do them properly at first

oh yeah spent ages at the stupor market, i love wandering aimlessly around just looking at EVERYTHING and hten when we cam home stu made us a crushed ice vodka thingy

and past for dinner which is my absolute fave fave dinner -yum yum yum

.hmmmmmm

am back running a bit
last set was 5mins jogging 1 min walking x5. ummm i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fat and unfit its not funny

hip wasnt sore but it wasnt fabbo today so i put hte TENS machine on it which seems to have helped a lot.just paranoid probably

tomorrow is 7.5mins at a go with 1min walk so haf hour f running is becooming more like it.
Have taken a rest day as my leggies were tired. have trained for 5 consecutive days(on the elliptical and bike on hte alternate days
am going on a detox on 2nd jan. have bought the detox thing-i was patient and waited 4 days til the sales so it cost $65 instead of $110
woohoo

and went on a shopping spree yesterday. bought a new doona plus a new quilt set plus new sheet set amongst other things...lol-like i didnt spend enough over xmas

and stu bought me an ipod nano which is pretty cool
and how funny is this.........................
we were at Myer shopping before xmas and stu shoves some perfume under my nose and i went ewwww yuck that's horrible. Turns out thats the one he had bought me so he had to slink off to hte shops the next day and buy a different one. LOL, i felt pretty bad when he told me.
Anyway the Docle and Gabbana one is much nicer

anyway i have lost my blog feeds. Em is the only one i recovered so please send me your feed addresses either on here or through facebook
Ta
hope you all had a great Chrissy and New Year

unfit fatty boombah

well teh good news is it is more running than walking now.
woohoo have progressed to 2min walk/3min jog and thursday will be 1 min walk/4 mi n jog

OMG i am soooooo unfit, the first two jogs i felt shocking -after that it was fine, its like my body has to remember that i even LIKE to run.
Putting on 2and a bit kgs in the down time certainly hasnt helped though-a january detox is definitely on the cards

am on holidays which is making the rehab easier. after my run/walk today, i went to the gym and did 20mins on the bike followed by a weights session with all my rehab exercise about to be done in 5 mins!

im contemplating trying spin, i know i cant stand up or put it in heavy gear but it may make it SLIGHTLY more interesting.
anyway ill see how it goes.
i will post before but happy chrissy if i dont ... and also im having trouble getting into bloglines which is bit of a bugger

..ive been a bad little BLOGGER-ETTE

yep havent been blogging, havent even really been reading them (sorry guys)
been in a bit of a wasteland of work and reports and feeling a bit srry for myself. Been having a terrible ime with the back. slightly better now-althouhg i did have to get up in the middle of the night to take an anti inflamm two nights ago

anyway after 83 days of not running, Karen has given me the all clear to start my program
day 1 and 3
4mins walk, 1 min jog x4 yep a whole 4 mins of jogging.

oh well its a start. and after 83 days off, it is inevitable that all running fitness is gone. Not sure that i couldve run 10mins even had i been allowed.lol

and im allowed to start water running in 5 mins lots(up to 15 mins)

anyway she seems happy and thinks thst i should be back doing repos by the start of feb which still gives me a chance to be back for the state masters(not necessarily runing well however.....)

i will start blogging again and also reading them now that im on holidays..... YAY