Track, Week 9: The onset of Injury

Total Miles: 12
Time biked: 2 hour

Sunday, 3/2
Took the day off, but managed to go to the beach and such in Oregon. It was really beautiful there. My foot hurt throughout the day and such. Its really getting quite annoying

Monday, 3/3
Spent most of the day traveling back to Pasadena. Ran out of my apartment around 5. Did an hour super easy, mostly around the infield. The foot didn't hurt too much until later. Then it hurt like a bitch.

Tuesday, 3/4
Spent much of the day considering whether I should really do the race simulation workout I had planned for today. Decided yay. Did 1000, 700, 500, 300. Planning on the fact that I'll do this workout 2 more times and increase the distances steadily. Ran the 1000 in 2:40, then 1:53, 79, 43. Mark and I ran the workout at an even pace, which is fine for now. We'll practice more of the change of pace stuff later. Afterwards I kinda felt shitty and wanted to puke. Probably more from dehydration than from the workout itself though. Anyways, today I also took some better precautions with my foot and had andre wrap it for me and then iced it afterwards. I've also been doing track workouts in trainers for the past few weeks. Not exactly my style, but I don't want to irritate the damn foot anymore. With that in mind, I think we should all get a visualization of the sinister son of a bitch.













The pictures aren't the greatest, but it should be pretty clear that on the left side left foot, where the toes kinda start growing out of my foot there is a red spot (not on my itty bitty pinky toe itself). Anyways, a bruise on the bottom of my foot over there seems to have pushed up the left side of my foot enough so that it rubs and has give me a bad blister. And before anyone says anything, I don't need new shoes. This was definitely caused by the 3k race at Pomona. So to combat this I'm gonna spend the next few days on the bike just taking it easy. Although, for now I still plan to race the 800m at Ben Brown this Saturday. Wish me luck, I really think this might be an ok opportunity to P.R. if it get in the right race, etc.

Wednesday, 3/5
Biked in the gym for 1 hour. Legs felt fine after yesterday so I added in some harder sections. Spent a while warming up at 100 rmps on the lowest level. Then steadied out around 120 rpms for most of the workout. My foot felt like it was swelling a little towards the end, but it didn't really hurt much.

Thursday, 3/6
Biked 60 minutes had a few kicks of harder effort in the last 1/2 hour. No real pain. Had andre tape me up before and iced afterwards. The swelling really seems to be going away overall.