Injured again

This is kind of a neverending story. Until last week I was quite thinking of taking part to the Rome Marathon, in mid March, just to have it as a trial / long run. Now I abandoned that idea and I’m not even so sure about London either!

After a few weeks I was training well, a few days ago I started to feel some pain on my right foot. Now it got much worse and I’m currently limping when I try to run, sometimes even when I walk.

Diagnosis is plantar fasciitis, which I already had 3 years ago and I know very well.

The strange bit is that this time it took just a few days to come to this stage, where I can barely run. Now my only hope is to heal it ASAP!

Second week of training

This is what I could consider the second week of focused training, after about 1.5 months of just running.

Next Sunday I’ll take part to the first Cross Country race of the year, about 50km away from Trieste.It will be a long distance cross, thus just about 10km. In this week I’ve tried to schedule some training in order to be still kind of fresh on Sunday.

That was 3×2000 reps on Tuesday (which turned out to be 2×2000+1500 because of some nasty dogs on the path)  and 8x hill reps today, Thursday. I’ll have then another 2 days of easy run before the race.

My only concern, now, is to keep my groin healthy. Hopefully the physiotherapy is doing its job

Back to training

OK, I’ve been away for a few weeks, but that wasn’t cause I’m lazy, but just because I’ve been away from serious training for so long!
Fortunately the new year is bringing along some good news and, although my injury is not completely over, I feel much more comfortable with training and I could finally start with some speedworks.
I decided to try it in the last week of december. I started with some long hills, that turned out really well, and finished the year with a long fartlek session (1000 hard – 1000 easy).
After that, my first nice training with my best running mate, Mike, was on Wednesday: 10 by 400 meters, with a really short recovery in between. Great satisfaction, since it was possibly the first time I was running easier than him.
Yesterday, 6th of January, last official day off from work, I was left alone and made up my mind with an “easy” progression on the usual hilly loop of S.Andrea.
Today I’ve finally started my physiotherapy treatment, after about 1 month of doubtful diagnoses. This will last for the next 2 weeks, but hopefully I’ll be okay after that!
Tomorrow I’ll try out some longer reps (2000m). I’m really glad I can keep you updated again