Week 11 - Climbing the wall - Day 77 of 112

I think I have got that annual.

Just about to go off to the Western Baths for a swim as I start some sort of plan to keep me fit whilst I am off my feet. By the end of this I will have webbed feet just like Patrick Duffy if my memory serves me "The Man from Atlantis". The rest of the day has been spent climbing the wall as I am unable to go for a run. It is very difficult to take at the moment. Normally I would be happy for the rest but generally this comes after I have run a marathon not before. As every day goes by it is hard not to think that I am loosing fitness. I know that this is unrealistic and it will take about 2 weeks of inactivity before I start to lose fitness but         it's none the less hard to take.

I am trying to force myself to rest for as long as possible and I think that for the rest of the next week I need to take it carefully. The problem is that once I start to recover I need to build up the muscle without having a relapse. Trying to judge how far I can take a run is going to be the difficult thing. I guess that will mean slowly building up the length of the runs once I am able to run again. I have a raft of strengthening exercises that I have got from the net so I will not be short of ideas. Rather worringly I woke up this morning to find that the left hamstring muscle has now come out in sympathy for the one that was sore on Saturday. It feels like someone has given me a dead leg on the left handside of the hamstring. It's bloody spreading! Ice and compression, ice and compression, 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off, ice and compression and so it goes on..........

Back from the swimming pool and have that endorphin buzz again. Ahhhh that feels better. Swimming went well and it has little or no impact on the hamstring. Took my pulse at the end of 14 mins of swimming and it was at around 120bpm. It was not a quick pace but was surprised as to how well the breathing was under control. Will try and get another session in tomorrow morning and build it up from there. 

Numbers - 14 mins  - 24 x 30yards