Janathon -- Week 2 days 1, 2

[ewt]

I decided to take part in Janathon and have been updating artsyhonker with details as it's a bit more public and I'm more comfortable linking to there from my public twitter account.

But basically, I decided a) I may as well pick up where I left off rather than starting over and b) I may as well run twice a week and do the programme at the pace suggested until I have problems.

First run, on 1st January, was fine, easier than the ones I did later in November in fact. Second one on 3rd January was not so good: shin pain again. Bother.

I'm thinking I will try to keep going for January, doing what I can -- that is, not starting any running interval with shin pain, and lengthening the walking intervals to include stretches if necessary to achieve this -- but if at the end of January I'm still being limited by shin pain, then I need to try something other than running and accept that at this weight running is too high-impact for my body.

I already know that cycling doesn't generally cause me problems, but on a "real" bicycle I tend to only work hard if I'm in a real hurry to get somewhere, so it's probably exercise bikes at the gym if I want to push myself. I've also been told by several physios to do rowing but I am already using the rowing machine at the gym on non-running weekdays (for ten minutes at a time -- not a huge amount or a huge challenge, but enough to feel like I'm doing something and to establish the habit of going to the gym), and would prefer to have something else so it doesn't get too monotonous.

Comments

[liv]

That sounds like a really good plan, hope it goes well. And thanks for linking to the more detailed records at artsyhonker; I didn't know you had a publicly linkable blog here at all.

And yay for gathering lots of data about what your body can and can't manage. I hope you do make some progress with running and get some fun out of it while working around your sensible precautions.