Back on track?!...

I've been away for quite a while. Sorry about that, I tend to avoid sharing bad news...

As far as running is concerned, the last six months were a bit of a roller-coaster really. January started off rather well, or so it seemed, but then probably I just overtrained with cold weather and got myself a nasty tendinitis. On doctor's advice I got off my running for a few weeks and as a result I indeed got a pain-free foot, but also a seriously swollen ankle! Go figure.

One problem led to another and almost three months later, after a number of doctor visits and scans, I've been diagnosed with an insufficiency in the lymph system on the right leg (the dodgy one.) Quite fitting, considering the name of this blog (if you're wondering, one of the symptoms if "heavy legs"!) I couldn't have guessed. Not serious at this stage but nonetheless. Long working days, sitting for long hours behind the terminal, do not help at all.

The good news are, exercising is the best way of keeping the swelling at bay.

So I resumed the exercise! And things aren't going bad at all! Apart from a freak sprained ankle while playing volleyball, I recovered some of the fitness of last year and I'm now again putting in the long runs. So much so that, together with some friends, we decided to take part in the next Brussels marathon, on the 4th of October! No overambitious goals, just finishing in one piece, anything below four hours is a bonus!

I'll be posting the training progress every now and then. Hopefully this time I'll manage to complete the program and stand at the start line on race day! Cross your fingers for me.

Happy new year!

Will this be marathon year?

No, it's not a new year's resolution. It would be nice though.

Hmm, it will be nice!

Back on running

Long time no hear (post)! I've been away from this log but I haven't stood still. Luckily the body is holding up well and I'm now shaping up for things to come.
That summer injury was really a pity, I'm in nowhere near the shape I was in last June. Build up again you'll say.

On a humorous note, I think I understand whom I got the heavy legs from. Call it geographic proximity.

Go Haile!

The great man does it again! 2h03'59", did anyone doubt it?!

New gloves, err... shoes

Now I know what I want for Christmas, a new pair of gloves shoes!

Berlin

This year's Berlin Marathon is approaching rapidly! I wish I would run this one, get another glimpse of Haile (the odds are he's going to break the record again, would you bet against it?) but the way things are at the moment, I won't be racing any time soon.

The rupture in my right adductor is as good as healed but my lower-back is giving me a bit of trouble right now. Lack of activity I would say. Just in case, I'm going to order a decent chair at work! I still two more sessions with my physio for the leg trouble but the treatment is pretty much rounded up.

To make matters really exciting I managed to catch one of those nasty colds, apart from sleeping there isn't much I feel like doing. It will be a week or two before I start trying to get some of the pre-June fitness back.

Oh boy, don't you love Fall?!

Save Miguel!

Save Miguel and help put a cork in pollution!