Last Sunday was a bad running day. The 40 minute outing could only be given a score of 95% which was a backward step after previous runs had been almost 100%. Very disappointing. Since then however things have improved every day and the last two days saw the 50 minute runs both given a perfect score of 100%.
Feeling good now as we head into a new week and hopefully things will continue to be 'perfect'. Of course the cycling and weight training has been continuing as usual and has hardly been affected by the injury.
The weather hasn't been quite a s cold over the past few days but I was interested to read an article about running in cold weather on the Sweat Science website (in brief) and on The Globe And Mail website (in full).
It seems that to avoid cold fingers ... wear a balaclava. I haven't seen one of those in Yorkshire since the 1970s though.
Maybe a hat will suffice.
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Saturday, 21 January 2012
Monday, 31 October 2011
TV ... carbs ... injury
Hope you all watched the program on Channel 4 (UK) on Saturday morning at 7.00am. It was almost an hours worth of coverage from the second Commonwealth Mountain & Ultra Running Championships which took place in Llandudno a few weeks ago (as if you didn't know).
A very good program showing about 20 minutes from each of the three races. If you haven't seen it yet you can find it here. I believe it's available for another four weeks or so and it's well worth watching.
A few days ago there was a brilliant piece on the Sweat Science website about carbohydrate intake during exercise. In a nutshell we used to believe that humans could metabolise a maximum of 60g carbs per hour when running but recent studies have founds that 90g per hour can be achieved if we use 60g glucose and 30g fructose.
I know this isn't such a new idea (it was mentioned in Lore Of Running by Tim Noakes) but this piece reinforces, with me at least, the need to try a mixture of glucose and fructose in my future training and racing.
This afternoon I was at the physio again and the good news is that my ankle injury is much less serious than originally thought. It turns out to be Achilles Tendinopathy and the course of action is a further weeks rest followed by four or five weeks gradually returning to full training. All the while I'll be cycling lots and building up strength and flexibility in both ankles with weights, stretching and eccentric contractions.
A very good program showing about 20 minutes from each of the three races. If you haven't seen it yet you can find it here. I believe it's available for another four weeks or so and it's well worth watching.
A few days ago there was a brilliant piece on the Sweat Science website about carbohydrate intake during exercise. In a nutshell we used to believe that humans could metabolise a maximum of 60g carbs per hour when running but recent studies have founds that 90g per hour can be achieved if we use 60g glucose and 30g fructose.
I know this isn't such a new idea (it was mentioned in Lore Of Running by Tim Noakes) but this piece reinforces, with me at least, the need to try a mixture of glucose and fructose in my future training and racing.
This afternoon I was at the physio again and the good news is that my ankle injury is much less serious than originally thought. It turns out to be Achilles Tendinopathy and the course of action is a further weeks rest followed by four or five weeks gradually returning to full training. All the while I'll be cycling lots and building up strength and flexibility in both ankles with weights, stretching and eccentric contractions.
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