I haven’t been running for over twenty days now. Multiple injuries have forced me to digress from my running schedule including the horrid shin splints injury which fails to leave me. This weekend I added a swollen ankle to the list of injuries while playing basketball. Even as I hurt my ankle during the course of the game, I continued to play and this caused a bigger swelling. The freakin Mumbai marathon is exactly one month away and I feel exactly the same way I felt before my tenth grade biology exam – unprepared.
I plan to do a few things to start getting back on schedule.
a) Ice my feet everyday until the marathon
b) Run twice a day – a hard run in the mornings and easy runs during the evenings
c) A minimum of fifty pushups every day to increase breathing capacity
d) Eat sprouts/ corn and fresh fruits apart from my rice diet
e) Run with the Chennai runners every Sunday morning
f) Get weekend massages to cool my body down
g) Stretch all the time
h) Quit beer until the run is over
i) Work on circuit training and hills
j) Book my flight tickets to Mumbai
k) No late nights.
The loss of focus is pissing me off. Beer drinking has resulted in loss of focus and I am going to quit drinking and socializing for a while now. Running has become my forte and giving it up means nothing less than losing control over my life.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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No beer and no late nights????
hmmmm......
Shumit, given the fact that you already ran a couple of marathons before, I think you know what you are doing but I think given the timeframe you are working with, I think some of the ideas you suggested will cause you great failure come your race day.
b) Run twice a day – a hard run in the mornings and easy runs during the evenings
Dont do it. You only have 4 weeks to go, go for long runs the first two weeks and make sure that each run is at least 70%-80% the length of the race.
c) A minimum of fifty pushups every day to increase breathing capacity
Wont help you much, what you need is either:
1. a swimming pool
2. do sprints
d) Eat sprouts/ corn and fresh fruits apart from my rice diet
e) Run with the Chennai runners every Sunday morning
That could be your long run of the week
f) Get weekend massages to cool my body down
Make sure she is hot
g) Stretch all the time
and drink plenty of water
h) Quit beer until the run is over
make sure your piss is clear every time you wake up. Hydration is essential
i) Work on circuit training and hills
Yeah, sprints on hills
j) Book my flight tickets to Mumbai
k) No late nights.
And make sure your carb intake is high. Do you happen to have an Olive Garden nearby?
Best of luck man, I hope you beat the 4 hour mark :D
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