Love this time of year. Had the lake to myself and did a decent workout.
Deep water running
6 x 60 (R/L) strides w/ 60 sec rest
Max HR - 160
Avg HR - 125
Lake swim
2 x 160 yds
Was able to finally make it across the lake freestyle without stopping. About 90x (R/L) strokes.
Started the day with 23 pullups and some ab wheel... and a couple hrs of guitar practice.
Knee feels good and I think limiting leg activity to water and maybe occasional gentle seated bike might be what I need. I don't know what to make of the comments on the last post. A lot of ridiculous hyperbole, snide BS. Bottom line, my knee is painless for daily activities, even when carrying significant weight up stairs. The identified possible medial condyle defect ("emerging subfracture") is tiny, about 1/4" square. I don't think it's unrecoverable for normal daily activities and may be recoverable with a significant healing period even for occasional running. Dubious I'll be training for the 400m at the same level as before the injury, but that's ok. Turf sprints once a week is really all I need + bike. I don't think that is an unreasonable goal. May try an under loader brace for biking, I'll ask the Dr.
Really light 141.3 lbs after workout. 12% bodyfat.
Sympathy to my masters colleagues who had their first day of competition at USATF Masters Nationals canceled in OH due to air quality. Fortunately, they have a 300m indoor track on site. The air quality forecast for Friday is also not good. That sucks, but they'll have to bring it indoors. Not the first time. It happened in '17 in LA when lightning forced us indoor at LSU on a 200m flat track for 200m semis.
Ask your doctor if a senior citizen, who's also a sprinter with a knee injury, should be doing weight pulls, stadium stairs and short sprints rather than walking, slow jogging, slow biking and water walking. Your ego won't let you move to the slow lane, not even if it's temporary, and that will probably shorten your sprint career. Keep running to the medical system to console you.
ReplyDeleteYes, obviously a mistake to have been doing that a year ago. I've definitely changed my training, call it slow lane, whatever. Completely uncoached, mistakes are inevitable. Being a prolific racer has costs. No masters has raced more than I have, no masters has run in more college meets. The body is bound to fail after running 12 seasons averaging 27 races a yr after the age of 50, training up to 11 mo / yr, way more than a typical pro. There was one 5 yr stretch from age 54-58 I ran 166 races. It was great, I love it. Amazing I'm not more damaged with the high training and racing volume especially after age 60. I'm happy with the career I had. I do feel sorry for guys who are so wrapped up in it they are running right now with terrible injuries, bone on bone, with joint replacements, etc.... Also feel sorry for the guys who raced all those years in mediocrity and never won a championship. Things could be far worse, I have a number of masters colleagues that have dealt with cancer. Fortunately, that's not me. Now, it's not like I have nothing else to do. I have concerts and recordings coming up, an academic sabbatical, a house to build, places to travel, and will soon need to help my parents. And, I'll continue to search for ways to train to stay fit while preserving wellness and healing injuries.
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