Monthly Archives: April 2011

setbacks

Posted by maan on

i’ve had this nagging pain on my right knee for a while. i can’t go running for more than 2 kilometers without hurting… so i guess i’ll have to shave a few weeks off my training for milo. or worse… that i might not be able to run milo if the pain persists.

to address the pain, i put ice on my knee after running. also, i went thru a hellish PT session with my sister last week. ITB and calf release are not so fun, but it’s like an initiation of some sort. jai was all for the release, i was like ‘no im scared’ la la la. my right knee and calf were so sore, i had a hard time driving the following day. lol but it’s all good. we’re doing dry needling and another round of ITB/calf release the next time my sister is available, hopefully this week. i’m so not looking forward to that, but i have no choice.

but anyway. it’s just hard to get my head around the fact that it’s possible i won’t be able to run milo. i’ll probably accept that in the weeks to come, after all there will be more marathons later in the year. but still. milo is milo.

17 weeks

Posted by maan on

There’s nothing like planning for a race to get any runner hyped up.

I’m not known to be a fast runner. In all of my races, I just aim to finish them with a decent time, or within the cutoff (in particular, TBR, Milo and T2N). It shames me to admit that I have never really pushed myself to the limit. I mean, I know what I’m capable of, but I haven’t exactly reached that tipping point.

No one has ever seen me cry after a race, because I haven’t, and that’s what’s bothering me. I’ve seen my friends running these races with tears in their eyes, during or after the race, for whatever reason. Wonder why that hasn’t happened to me before. After doing two marathons, I thought maybe doing a 50km ultra might make me cry, but it didn’t, not even to the point of wanting to cry even if I forced it. WHYYY.

Funny how not being able to cry after a race still bothers me. Haha. We’ll see after Milo.

17 weeks of training with tempo runs, speed work, long runs and cross training awaits…

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The past 4 hours brought back memories of April-July 2010: the reading materials I went over, the core training programs I read and tried not to do (hahaha), the music I listened to over and over again (like this one and this one), crossing the finish lines, the congratulatory high-fives and hugs I got afterwards… One year seems nothing at all when you think about it. Mabilis lang pala talaga.

Gosh, so much has changed, but I still feel the same. I mean, it feels like I’ve gotten nowhere. (insert quarter life crisis crap here)

ANYWAY. I have already plotted my schedule for the next 17 weeks, it was hard, but I guess following the whole schedule is way harder. Now if I could only give the same kind of attention and focus to other more important things in my life I’m sure I’ll get somewhere 🙂