Tag: Medical Issues

Slow but hopeful!

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Physio appointment went well this morning. There’s been some improvement since last week, and I’ve been advised that I can start building up the distances again as long as I take regular and extended walk breaks. I’m so happy and excited about that – bumbling along with walk breaks sounds like a really lovely way to get back into it, especially as the weather seems to be improving again.

I’m still plodding along with my game-making as well, which has really played a major role in taking my mind off my training break woes over the last few weeks – it’s meant I’ve not been sitting around being anxious about the whole thing.

Patience

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I had my long-awaited physio appointment yesterday. I’ve been advised that I still shouldn’t run more than two or three miles (*waits patiently for next week’s appointment and hopefully an update to that*), but it is really nice to be able to get out on the roads again. I did a mile this morning and it felt great, and I’m planning to walk-run parkrun tomorrow and see how it goes.

With just over seven weeks to go till the marathon, I am really hoping to be able to get a 14-miler, 16-miler and 18-miler in for the remaining long runs. If the physio still says no long runs for another two or three weeks then I could maybe cut that down to two… but we’ll see. It’s important to me to have a fairly long taper as I feel that’s worked better for me in the past, but at the moment it’s still sort of all up in the air.

As my last long run recedes into the past I do also feel a bit anxious about losing fitness, so I’m going to have another serious look at cross-training options.

One more day!

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It’s been a busy week and so waiting for physio day has gone a lot more quickly than I expected. I think whatever happens, I’ll just be glad to have a bit more certainty about my next steps and what I can salvage out of the remainder of marathon training. Things are continuing to improve so I’m hopeful.

Really excited about the idea of getting back out on the roads again. Hope it’s soon 🙂

Sunday dozing

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I’ve been on the sofa making my game most of today. Geth was out doing the long run route from my 2021 marathon training block this morning, and I have to say I feel pretty envious – I really want to be back out there, and my legs do feel like they’re improving. I don’t want to risk anything until I’ve seen the physio, though. Four more days.

I’m really appreciating a bit of quiet at the moment. I’m sleeping better and feel very settled in what I’m doing. Just need to get the aches and pains sorted and everything will be golden 🙂

Slight wistfulness but cracking on!

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It was absolutely the right decision to delay the release of my current big game project to the ParserComp competition in June rather than rushing it into the Spring Thing festival this week, but I do feel a slight wistful pang that I won’t be entering the Thing this year. I’ve been testing a couple of other people’s games, so I still feel like I’m contributing in a small way. I’m also looking forward to playing all the entries once they become available. In the meantime, I’m getting on with my (much smaller) game for this year’s TALP jam, which will be my focus for the next month.

Speaking of wistful pangs, it’s hard not to feel like my marathon training is on hold at the moment. My leg hurts a little less during gentle exercise than it did yesterday, and that’s great, but I need to be patient and let it heal properly. I’m doing all the right things… I think.

Decision made-ish

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I went out for a planned two-mile out-and-back run this morning. Sharp pain in my hamstring from the off meant that I was being overtaken by old ladies hurrying for buses; by half a mile in, it was less sharp but still painful, so I turned around and went home. I’ve booked a physio appointment for next week. I feel like it just won’t get better if I don’t stay in recovery mode.

In the meantime, I’m thinking about getting an inexpensive exercise bike to try and keep my fitness up with lower-impact exercise until my leg is better. I’m starting to feel like I’m going to be undertrained for this marathon, but it’d be better than not being able to do it at all.

Some enforced rest-ish days

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I’ve been running through a knee twinge for the last couple of weeks. When things like that remain twinges, I have always found that continuing to run as planned is not a problem, provided that I’m careful and do some extra stretching to target the area in question. This week, however, the twinge has become more than a twinge – it’s hurting quite badly and is causing me to hobble – and so I know I need to take some time out from the training plan so that it doesn’t get any worse.

I’ve got the Sheffield Half Marathon (my ‘halfway point half marathon’ for the current marathon training block) in eleven days’ time, and I don’t want to be dragging my leg around that, so I’m going into rest/recovery/mini-taper mode until then. I’ll just be doing short slow treadmill bumbles, gentle walks, parkrun volunteering, and lots of foam rolling – because that’s what’s worked for me in the past when I need to get rid of aches and pains while keeping my fitness level intact.

I’m really disappointed to have to take some time out when I’ve been sticking to the plan so well for nine and a half weeks, but the most important thing is getting rid of the knee issue so that I can get going again.

‘Moving day’

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Geth was able to pick up my new laptop on Friday. I’m spending the weekend setting it up and getting settled with it, which really does feel like moving house (I spend 90% of my waking life on my laptop so it sort of is where I ‘live’!). I’ve still not decided what to call it though.

I’ve got to the stage of my treatment course for Zombie Eye IV where I don’t have to take dilating eye drops anymore, so I’m looking forward to being able to enjoy the shiny new screen properly!