First week of my taper…great time for a little injury. Wednesday night I had an hour & fifty five minute Z2 run on the schedule. The run went great, I got a ton of miles & didn’t feel like I was pushing myself. After my run one of my wheels (right foot) didn’t feel right, as the night went on it got progressively sore & stiff.
Thursday morning I woke up to it being painful to walk on. There isn’t much swelling & no bruising so I think its just an strain. As to what caused it…I’m not totally sure but I have a couple ideas. In the end though I think it comes down to just a the number of miles I’ve put in training for Ironman.
Coach said to take it easy and not to do anything that caused pain. Thursday I did very little waking and used some ice without much change in how it felt. Friday its a little bit better but still far from good.
All-in-all I think I’ve been really lucky when it comes to injures over the past year of training. My body doesn’t always feel great but I think there was only one short period that I had much of an injury that held me back.
My focus right now is getting back to 100% but fingers crossed that this weekend I can comfortably get back on the bike & in the water.
Ironman Canada…15 days away…
While having a little extra down time this week I did come across a couple of great online videos:
Wheaties viral webisode campaign, “Fuel. Win. Evolve.” (Includes Olympic triathlete Hunter Kemper)
http://www.wheaties.com/evolution/index.html#/episode5
MC SpanxeX “Performance”
Its dumb as hell but cracks me up every time!
