Well, the leg appears to be doing slightly better. I visited an Active Recovery therapist twice last week and once this week. I have another appointment tomorrow and I’ve been pretty pleased with the status. They massage and stretch different areas of the leg and they also perform heated electric stimulation on the hamstring. The hamstring hasn’t been hurting as much and we are still working on the calf and achilles tendon. It appears those have been over-compensating for the hamstring, so they have been pretty sore.
I was actually able to get in some good mileage last week. I can tell my overall fitness has suffered from the reduction in miles for the past few months, but I’m hoping to get a better guage of where I am within the next few weeks. Here’s my breakdown for the last month or so:
You can see I took a rest period at the beginning of December. I then realized complete rest wasn’t doing much good for my leg, so that’s when I decided to get in a few miles and started looking at active recovery.
I have yet to make a final decision on whether or not I’ll be running Boston. I did find out that I am able to defer my registration until 2011. Basically, I would lose out on this year’s registration fee. I have really been looking forward to a rematch with Boston, but I want to make sure I’m 100% before attacking it again.
I’m nowhere near 100% right now, so it will largely depend on whether or not I’ll be able to continue to increase my milage, increase the distance of my long run and incorporate speed work into my runs. At the end of January, I’m hoping to have my long run at 14 miles and my weekly mileage in the upper 40s. To put it in perspective, at that point in my training for my last two marathons, I was at 18 mile long runs and my weekly average was in the mid-60s.
More to come over the next few weeks, but I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I know a lot of you have already started training for a spring marathon. Good luck, stay injury free and keep getting in the miles!
