Set off at 9.30am for my first slightly longer 5.5k run of Week 1 in juju’s plan. Much later than my usual run time, but being up until 2.30am with my poorly elderly Dad resulted in me sleeping in this morning. Despite being overcast, it was surprisingly hot and humid.
I seem to have so many body niggles going on at the moment that it’s almost funny. Was most concerned about the right knee niggle, but as long as I stick to running straight on smooth surfaces it thankfully copes ok for now.
I decided to stick to but extend my normal 5k pavement route. Set off slower than normal (I’m trying to embrace my inner “slow and steady” snail), and seemed to find a fairly steady comfortable step rate with my own music on instead of a Podrunner episode. I’m already on my second set of Bluetooth earphones, so was a bit disappointed to find this new pair kept cutting out about every 10secs initially - leaving me wondering how Runkeeper was ever going to let me know when I’d run the right distance! After about 10minutes this annoyance stopped, and they went back to working perfectly. So it looks like my earphones had toxic 10 issues today! 🙄
As I went up the hill and past “gnome corner”, I sadly found my gnome pal still absent, and no sign of a postcard from him pinned up for me... Am still hoping he’ll reappear soon! 🙁
Got back and invented a new tweak on a favourite smoothie recipe (orange / banana / frozen pineapple / coconut / ginger / milk / yoghurt....yum😍). The original recipe I’d found was called “Feel-good Pineapple Smoothie”. So I made extra smoothie to share with our team who are nursing annoying injuries at the moment sallenson , Oldfloss , limberlou ... I’m calling this one “Feel-good IC Recovery Smoothie” and sending it over with health busting / healing wishes. (Alternatively help yourself to some of my husband’s leftover wine in the background, guys. Sometimes only alcohol will do!) ❤️❤️❤️
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Ooh 5hat smoothie looks good. Just adapting it to a vegan version in my head.
I’m going to add turmeric next time, to make it more yellow. The original had no yoghurt or milk in it (or banana), so it was vegan. Here’s a link to the recipe. (This site also has great carrot cake and apple pie smoothies! I’m sure you can use nut or soya milk in them. I just use cow’s milk as it’s cheaper.)
Thanks Bridget. 😊 Starting at a slower steady pace made 5.5k feel little more effort than 5k. Are you going to make a start to the 10k plan this week too?
Can I do the smoothie and then the wine afterwards please?
Glad you got out did your stuff.
I feel utterly and completely sh*te at the moment. Knee still too sore to contemplate anything. I had a great niggle-free C25K and now every wheel has fallen off. The gloriousness of Led Zeppelin has given way to the complete awfulness of Black Sabbath and It's getting me down.
All I want to do is go out and run while my life is vaguely sensible enough to accommodate it. And I can't. And it's rubbish.
I’m not clicking on like...that’s a big DISLIKE!!! 😔😔 Yes, you’re definitely allowed smoothie then lots of wine after it! 🍷🍷🍷 Are you able to get out to see that Physio again to see what they advise? Always good to get an expert’s opinion.
I’m feeling lucky because I can get away with running still, but am paying careful attention to the dodgy knee. Because I see a Chiro and Sports Therapist regularly for my spine, I’m never long between available advice anyway, which can be handy for my other bashed up body parts.
Although I’m running, I’ve barely been able to rock climb or do weights at the gym since last year, due to an annoying and painful tendon problem with one wrist. So I’ve kind of been on a different IC for months. Sometimes the best we can do is to adapt while things improve. I decided to try running, as that works with a useless wrist! If your Physio thinks the knee needs rest, then I’m sure there’ll be something you can do instead for a bit. Running isn’t going anywhere. You can pick it right back up again at anytime. It’s not worth causing yourself longer term problems by pushing things with an injury. (Good advice I’m sometimes no good at following myself...)
I agree it’s rubbish. Easier to say than do, but try not to get too down, Stephen. This will only be a temporary blip. Perhaps see what the experts recommend then take it from there.
We need Oldfloss to give you some of her wonderful insightful and inspirational advice at this point...❤️❤️❤️
Last advice from the physio a couple of weeks back was to rest it for a couple of days. Then i did a 3k and a 5k. Both fine. Then the 6k on sunday crippled me again.
And the advice here has been across the gamut of options from "rest it", "find a physio", "don't rest it".
So no idea really.... Spending another £50 on a physio appt that seemed less than stellar last time seems a bit daft.
Wow, £50 sounds quite steep for just a half hour Physio appt, unless that’s a dearer first appt fee. I pay £50 an hour for the Sports Therapists, and £35 for 20-30mins Chiro. I know it all gets really confusing when you’re getting advice from multiple people. (I pull my hair out with confusion when my Chiro and Sports Therapist disagree on treatment or exercises... They all have different ideas.)
All I can suggest is that if you felt confident in the Physio you saw then go back once more, tell them what’s happened, and see what their new response is. (I still laugh that the Sports Therapist who eventually miraculously fixed my back from chronic pain originally told me I’d pulled a muscle when I first saw him telling him I’d got tennis elbow. A week later he agreed with me that I’d got tennis elbow! I stuck with the guy and eventually he did wonders for me, but I was really dubious after that first appt! I guess we aren’t always that easy to diagnose, so sometimes they need more feedback about how injuries respond.)
If you didn’t feel confident in this Physio’s knowledge then see if you can find recommendations locally from anyone you know who does swear by a great Physio / Osteopath / Sports Therapist who treats them. (In my experience of all these types of guys, including even my current Chiro, although they have a different approach to injuries and treatment, the good ones tend to cross over quite a bit in how they treat things anyway, and what’s most important is that you find a good one who you do have confidence in.)
Because there are many different reasons we can have problems with knees etc, without finding some sort of expert to examine yours and give their opinion after seeing you, you shouldn’t really listen to the rest of us nattering on about whether rest or no rest etc worked for us. No one can properly diagnose you on here, so we may offer you completely the wrong advice, though with the best possible intentions.
Hope that makes sense. Good luck, and let us know how you get on. ❤️
I tend to forget the other free option is to get an appt with your GP for advice and ask to see a Physio via them. Some GPs now even let you self-refer without going to the GP for free Physio at their surgery (or wherever they have contracted Physio’s to treat their patients) for new problems - ours does. Perhaps ring and ask the receptionist at yours? GPs have been trying to make fast referrals for Physio more accessible recently to try to avoid patient’s acute problems getting worse before they get advice or treatment.
I tend to forget because I pay privately for my spine anyway (the NHS can’t afford to treat people with longterm musculoskeletal problems, and don’t usually offer the type of hands on treatment I find helps). I also have limited expectations from NHS Physios, from past experience. But it’s a free option, and you may be lucky.
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Actually i can use soya milk and soya yoghourt (which is really nice BTW)
Tips for improving pace, please 😮
Found my pace 😁
Burghley, and not a horse in sight!
Help! Am rubbish turning off my run on my Garmin, and it's making my average pace slower:
Intervals, trails and happiness in the fog with my dog 😀🐕🏃♀️
