Just a little patience
I’m nowhere close to saying “I’m back,” but for the first time since my ITB issues started three months ago I have some confidence with my running. I said the same thing in my “It’s a long tunnel” post a week ago, but after looking at my Daily Mile stats this weekend I realized how long of a journey this has been. It hasn’t felt all that long — I guess with my son’s birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas all mixed in, I was pretty distracted for a while. Plus I was relatively content to take a running break after not having one for a while.
I have no idea where things are headed the second half of this winter and early spring. I don’t need to have plans or a come back race planned right now. I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and see how I feel week to week before I decide anything.
Above are my miles from my peak week in marathon training when my problems began to what I did this week. As you can see, I had three weeks of steady decline until the marathon — much more than I wanted — then a spike on marathon week and then some extremely low mileage as I kept doing a little bit to get to 1,000 miles for the year.
It’s very refreshing to see things starting to go back up in the past few weeks. This week I hit 13.1 miles — completely unintentional to hit the half marathon distance, but still cool nonetheless.
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You're definitely dedicated and regimented. My stats don't look like that at all. I have some huge gaps. As Brandon said on his blog, its nice to have people to talk to and share with during this recovery process.
Patience is a good thing!! Your dedication really is amazing. I bet it is also kind of nice to not have specific goals/come back plans right now. Just doing it and listening to your body!! Happy that the knee is feeling good.
I have been having hell w/ my IT band and low back lately. Seems the attempts long fast runs have done it. I picked up a foam roller with some spikes on it, looks like something out of a S&M movie but it seems to be helping big time. I have a 1/2 on Sunday scheduled and seem to be facing my first race on injured parts.
Those IT bands are a bugger to recover from it seems.
Happy to hear that recovery seems to be coming along well for you. I'm cautiously optimistic myself at this point. Hopefully we'll both be seeing those dailymile stats on the rise again soon!