I am sorry I didn’t post my feed back yesterday….. I was a little emotional and feeling frustrated, sad and pretty down. I wasn’t sure where to start tbh. My focus, drive, determination and willingness is all 💯 there. I have done so well up to now to be injury free I know ! The thought of not being able to run gives me anxiety.
Yesterday was tough, not the mileage, not even the route but purely from pain and discomfort. Not fully hitting my goal pace each rep, because It felt my leg was pulling back. Runs and distances I have done so many times should have felt so comfortable😏 Lou was brilliant, she kept asking if I was ok and if I wanted to stop, I said no I will know if it comes to that and it didn’t …. But I just couldn’t run like my usual self. I have an appointment next week, hoping the physio might be able to free up something of help in some way.
Any how I still done the full session and I know not every day can be a good day 😊
Sorry to hear this. But well done on the run. I’m going to tweak the training slightly over the next few weeks and it will be a lot more easy running. That should put far less strain on the hamstring and I would avoid too many hills as well if you can. Keep it really slow, even focus on HR if that helps. I know sub 2 is a big goal at HHM but I’m confident even if we only ran easy between now and then you could still achieve that. And then after that the focus is the ultra. So we don’t need to be smashing out speed sessions right now. Save that for after the ultra when we can look at different goals. The focus right now is keep everything easy, to protect the hamstring and glute. You might find you can run more, so long as you don’t push too hard. But obviously we will readjust things depending what the physio says.
Coach Simon 🍊
