Now heading into our fifth week of training and its amazing how the distance clocks up. We had a combined running distance last week of (57 + 28) and lets just say both our legs were knackered at the weekend.
This weekends running was tough not so much because of the distance but it seem to pore rain when Emma went out for her long run and the same happened to me, to say we were soaked would be an understatement, thank goodness there was warm food and lots of it when we got home.
This week will see us step it up a notch again, Emma has to hit 13km on the long run furthest she's run for months. My training actually drops back a little but have to add in some cross training so will go for a swim and a long cycle with the lads on Saturday.
Unfortunately since the last post I've badly injured my shoulder swimming in preparation for Ironman Galway (an old dislocation problem) thankfully this injury hasn't affected my running. I took a trip to the legendary physiotherapist Dr Marie Elaine Grant, who's helped me out. As I wasn't behaving myself and doing my homework I was given a firm telling off for not doing enough maintenance exercise on the eternal rotator cuff, which is a group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder or in simple terms keep it in place and not slip out or dislocate…ouch!!
Aside from that the other big change is we got a foam roller yesterday in Argos which helps massage sore legs after long runs and is an important ingredient to our recovery plans.
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