Week 9 Wrap-up

Well this is going to be a very quick wrap-up. It was a quieter week last week. Lower on the kilometres to help me get over the stresses of Run Melbourne. I actually had pulled up pretty well. Felt a little sore when I ran on Tuesday morning - a tad stiff on my first run after the race but otherwise it was fairly smooth sailing. My body seems to be coping quite well with the training so far. Which is not something I had expected going into this whole experience. I fully expected my body to start developing injury after injury. I've been really good about stretching after runs and looking after myself so perhaps that's paid off.

On Tuesday evening I had a visit to the physio. I'll be going there every second week now for a general sports massage now that my ITB is basically all good. I thought this would be an easy session where I get a bit of a rub-down and then walk away with freshly spruced up legs. Not so! The physio started massaging my calves. I've never had my calves properly massaged before. There was a spot near the outside back of the calf on both legs which is incredibly painful. I learnt this when he first brushed over it and then decided the site was worth a little further inspection. His usual trick is to apply pressure to a spot and hold it for a while. Usually the pain subsides after a little while. In this case, it wasn't going away at all. It was tight and sore and angry. At one point he eased off on the pressure and then went straight back in for more pressure! I yelped in pain, swore loudly and almost jumped off the table! I remember thinking that it must sound like a torture session to anyone out in the waiting room. They had to have heard me. Anyway, both legs were sore in the same spots and he wasn't helping to make them any less sore, (and in fact if anything he caused them to be noticeably sore for all of the next day) so eventually he decided to leave them alone since they hadn't been giving me any trouble before I went along.

That's about all really. I'm actually a bit concerned at the moment because I'm feeling a bit achy and tired today. Hopefully a good nights sleep tonight can banish whatever I've got. That's the plan anyway. It's a big training week this week and I don't want to be missing anything due to illness.
Week 9 distance covered: 52 km