Maybe it was the snow, maybe I’ve been pushing to hard? What ever “it” was I can’t look back. I was in my 5Th week of training for Boston and what started out as an annoying pain in my shin is now a stress fracture. Last Sunday Steven and I ran 16. I felt great! Until the last mile and my right shin started hurting again. Long story short, I was told to stop running for three weeks. That means if I heal I will have 6 weeks until Boston. I should focus on just getting there and doing the marathon. I’m not going to lie, it is mentally tough. I really felt I was running better than ever and a 3:30 marathon was definitely a possibility.
This week I still did what I could of p90x, yoga, upper body weights and abs. I swam on Wednesday and again this morning. I head to fitclub(of course its gorgeous out) and started by doing 15 min of pool running the therapy pool. Then I started my swim set:
4×100 odd free even back
13x[100 @ 1:55, 2×25 @:35]
50 free
2x [4×75] pull/swim
The hardest part of the 13 100’s set was the 25’s. I was trying to sprint the 100’s and coming in too soon. When I slowed down the 100’s I then sprinted the 25’s. I got the work out from the swim planner ap I downloaded on Steven’s iPhone. You enter the distance you want your work out to be , and presto you’ve got a workout. You can change the warm up if you don’t like it , or the main set. It’s a great ap.
