Good news - finally

After yesterday's post I was feeling pretty annoyed at my back (L4/L5 I am looking at you). But I was keen to get some training in for the day and by the time I got home my back was still feeling pretty good, so I went running.

My reasoning for going running was something like this, it is feeling good, the physio is saying it is healing well, you might just have to suck it up a bit. Besides if I was keen to do exercise it was either go running or go water running and do you know how cold the Swan River is at the moment. Running it was.

My plan was to go out and run for at least half an hour. No targets, no plan, just go and run continuously for 30 minutes. Get back to the process of running, rather than the process of pretending to run while feeling sorry for myself. Good walking warm up, good walking warm down, running in between. Simple.

And that is pretty much what happened. Once I got running I felt okay, still a bit sore, but when I focused on the pain I realised it really was muscular rather than my back. I kept checking back and each time I did the pain was still isolated to the muscle. I decided I could live with that for now.

I got to the 15 minute mark and was still feeling okay so decided to keep it going for another 5 minutes and make it a 40 minute round trip. In the end I got through the whole 40 minutes unscathed.

I had a very nice stretch last night and this morning I have been good. No worse than I was before my running. Success in my book.

To say I was pretty friggin stoked with the run would be a mild understatement.

Still early days and I certainly don't want too push to hard too early, but at the moment this means that Busso is definitely a go.

I have 4 and a half weeks to get as fast as I possibly can. Game on.
After my success of last night, getting myself down to the pool this morning was still a struggle. Especially given that this morning must have been just above freezing (okay about 13 degrees, but it felt a lot colder). But get down there I did. It was a classic Wednesday session. I don't think anybody came out of our lane feeling anything less than smashed. It looked like this:

5 x 400m
5 x 300m
5 x 200m
5 x 100m

The turn around time for each distance got progressively quicker. With the 400s we were getting a reasonable amount of rest, by the 100s we really weren't getting any rest at all. Solid in an ouchy kind of way.

Still certainly the kind of session that you come away from feeling happy to have completed.

For the first time in a long time I am feeling positive about training.