Sharla's Log

[Scrap]

When you come over bring your gear

[Sharla]

Hope you keep posting, they';re fun to read.

From the tone of your posts you seem dissatisfied with the trainers for a while, and it sounds like they've taken you as far as they can. The break may be good for you, and a fresh start in a new place in a few months may be exactly what you need.

Thanks Bomp I think it was time for a change and I've probably known it for a while but just not faced up to it.

In reality being honest with myself about it finally can only be a good thing!

When you come over bring your gear

Will do thanks Scrap! I'm really looking farward to it actually -

At the very least i had planned a lot of quality time with my wobble board, light weights for my back, stretching and some resistance band work over the next couple of months -

I wanted to turn up with half decent posture after all the free advice you've donated me over the last couple of years!

[Scrap]

Seeing whats happening is and showing are a little bit diffirent I think you will enjoy.

[sourpuss]

That sounds incredibly frustrating. Best of luck to you.

[Sharla]

Seeing whats happening is and showing are a little bit diffirent I think you will enjoy.

I think i will - i just hope i'm intelligent and/or observant enough to see and understand what you show me!

I can shock myself with how easily I can't see the forest for the trees sometimes!

I'll try not to embarass myself or frustrate you though!

That sounds incredibly frustrating. Best of luck to you.

Thanks sourpuss

I think things will work themselves out one way or another eventually though and after chucking my initial sooky la la I'm really happy to be moving on now!


Still in the midst of trying to write up my new training program. I'm a bit nervous that I might be biting off moer than I can chew choosing to do the full marathon at relatively short notice.

My intial attempts to build the kms relatively quickly had me hobbling for a couple of days 2 weeks ago. I had to ease off.

Not I'm thinking I might have to train the long run with a long cross training session - say about 4 hours - and just gradually up the proportion of time that I spend running.

I'd like to run the marathon in under 4 hours but I think if I'm cross training for half the session with cycling and/or swimming then it's less specific with less shock to the joints and going a little over time might pay off.

It also means I have an excuse to eat 2 of those little energy gel thingies and I LOVE the chocolate ones.

Plans for the rest of the week are not set in cement. Monday morning I did a long warm up followed by 5 X 600 m intervals with a 300 m walk break between them.

My warm up is now a 5 stage warm up as discussed in the conditioning thread:

1) walk - about 20 mins
2) static stretching
3) dynamic stretching
4) sport specific exercises (in my case long strides, but kicks, knee highs, sidestepping)
5) another short walk or light jog

This is a little time consuming but I have to admit I don't think I've been getting as much muscles soreness since I've started including it.

Monday night I cycled to Judo but it had been called off because the University had to redo the floor in the gymnasium so i went home to nut out my training program instead and I'm still struggling with it!

I am considering putting a session with treadmill/track intervals, weights and plyometrics into one workout like I used to and doing that twice a week to cover a lot of key conditioning work in one session.

I'm hoping that won't reduce what i want to get out of it since it's not like I'm trying to mix up endurance and strength or things which are totally different?!? I did this for a while earlier in the year and it was hard work - probably too hard to do more than twice a week - but I think it was good.

[Sharla]

Right well I've been crap at maintaining this - probably because my training has not been as good as I'd hoped lately but I'll try to remember the main points.

Judo is great but I haven't managed to get there very much lately .

Trainings for people at my level (utterly clueless ) are combined with the whole group on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Last Monday as I mentioned training was called off because the floor needed fixing.

Wednesday I planned to go but miscalculated how long a lab job was going to take and started it in the afternoon. I thought it would only take an hour but took 3 hours and was not the sort of thing I could get away with pausing halfway. My bad time management is just ridiculous!

Friday i went and it was good. Only thing I have to admit to is that while I've always hated breast guards and thought they were crap and unneccessary I take it all back now!

Since going on the pill I haven't gained a lot of weight but what I have gained has pretty much gone straight to boobs that previously didn't actually exist.

I used to be able to get hit in the chest without even noticing - no I'm wishing we had a Judo equivalent since depsite the fact that I was only working with a fairly small girl practicing hold downs when they got us to do a drill changing over from one hold down to another in a clockwise direction it was just pure nipple cripple hell!

So Ok I admit it - breast guards do actually serve a purpose for women who actually have some amount of cleavage - unlike myself when i'm not on the pill!

I can't really remember my cardio sessions for early in the week now - damn - need to log more often. Did a ten km run on Friday morning.

Basically I haven't been able to train as hard as I wanted to because i was getting knee pain again despite running on soft surfaces with new shoes. I actually put it down to my back.

Saturday was a physical day but not really training wise. I intended to train but left it for the afternoon partly because I wanted to let my knee calm down from the day before. Then I ran out of time because I had to attend to grocery shopping, bridesmaid duties (for my bros wedding since I ran with his fiance) and cleaning someone else's house for some extra cash. It was only meant to take 3 hours but took 6 because it was so dirty - they paid me double time though.

On Sunday I did a fun run with an old running buddy and her new apprentice. It's funny - i started my friend running and originally she just didn't even think she could ever run more than 20 mins.

When her personal trainer tried to get her to do it she threatened to throw her in the river. She said I would ask her too nicely so she couldn't get that angry with me otherwise I'd be in the river too! Now she's passing on the sickness to others.

Her apprentice didn't really enjoy the 8km run though. It was cold and despite us doing a warm up hre calves cramped up plus she had a stitch for the first half. She finished but not in the best spirits and she had to walk jog some parts. Me and my friends have always had a theory of not leaving anyone behind - especially on their first run of a certain distance so we all ran at her pace and by the time we finished I was just really really frozen and I could feel it in my hips.

I cycled home after that which made me even colder and after warming up spent the rest of the day doing my fortnightly cook up. I cooked a Pad Thai which i'm pretty happy with although it doesn't quite taste like my local Thai restuarant Pad Thai. Plus a risotto with vegies (leek, broccoli, peas, zuccini) and ham which also turned out well.

I've been soooo hungry since uping my running I also made an Anzac slice to serve as sort of home made musili bars which help fill me up.

I'm cooking my own breakfast cereal these days too - third each of brown rice, rolled oats and pearl barley all cooked separately, mixed in with some saltanas and a little golden syrup (just enough to take the edge off) and refrigerated. I cook a weeks worth at a time so I just add soy milk, nuke it and add some tinned apricots, glucosamine powder and flaxseed oil in the morning.

I decided to try my endurance session on Monday instead (the one I had planned for sunday but got too cold to go on with whent he 8 km was so slow). The plan was to include my transport cycling and Judo and just go to the aquatic centre gym afterwards to make the longer session.

Then I got a flat tyre and didn't have my tube repair kit with me! I didn't see the flat until I was about to cycle to Judo and then it was too late to make it by bus. So I ended up busing home instead and going to the aquatic centre but with buses being as shitty as they are in Adelaide i didn't get to the aquatic centre until 8 and it closes at 10!

So i just did 2 hours. I alternated 20 min treadmill running sessions with 10 min stepper session continuously. The sessions on the stepper seemed to stop me from cramping up totally and allowed me to keep going I guess because I worked in a different range of motion. I was pretty happy with how I felt energy and strength wise. Of course I'd struggle with a longer session but not enough to fail based on that type of conditioning. I did feel my hips and lower back just getting tighter and my stride more restricted as I went on though.

Tuesday morning I had a chiro appointment:

• She needed to adjust my lower back and hips
• My lower back was really tied up apparently - the right side worse than the left
• She found a trigger point in my shoulder which really really Fing hurt!
• She thinks I might be over-stretching that left shoulder forward when I sleep.
• I also have tight muscles on my sides and until she showed me an exercise and i tried to do it both sides I didn't realize how much more limited my movement was leaning to the left than the right!

So basically i need to stretch my right side more. i don't know why it would be tighter. I had a theory that part of it might be that my right foot being bigger (half a size) than my left is heavier and therefore the right side of my body tires more quickly.

I've since discarded that theory though. i think it must have been strained at some stage? I also fell heavily on my right hip at one point when I was knocked off my bike by a car - twice actually.

The reason i have gotten past that idea is that theoretically it wouldn't be a problem to swim.

Tuesday I had off as per chiro instructions.

This morning I tried to swim for 2 hours but only did 1 hour 20 mins since I could already feel my lower back locking up again. Swimming having a bigger foot is actually and advantage so that shouldn't aggravate the problem!?!?

Oh and another thing - my great idea of sitting on a fit ball is not so great after all. Apparently you have to be careful doing this because while it's good in some ways with no back support at all you are more likely to slouch forward! - Which along with practically everything apparently - even sitting with good form - can mess up your lower back!

[Bomp]

As you knnow, the knee pain could be from anything. Just a suggestion of what it could be from experience, if you run on the same side of the road all the time it's possible that some added strain is imposed on the leg which is higher up on the slope (most roads are sloped outwards for drainage purposes). Even though this slope is tiny it still can have an effect, running on the other side of the road when you start feeling the soreness MIGHT help.

Anyway, have fun swimming in circles with your giant right foot .