Sounds to me like you'll be fine. These things (almost!) always heal with no problems. I'll bet you'll come around quicker than that. Keep your head up, there's plenty of running in your future. I could never do the pool thing, so if you can, you're lucky.
Who has brought up possible alcoholism, being an a**, and a d*** in their posts? I correctly tried to put an obviously ill-informed youngster in his place, (something I always thanked my elders for later). The right to disagree with people is certainly not in dispute by me or anyone else in this post. I routinely disagreed with getting a haircut in the early 70's, but got them anyway. The intelligence of disputing others with better things to say in this post was what caused it to become "interesting." In the end, the runner with a stress fracture will heal, run, and make many friends along the way. (By the way, I once saw an untrained runner who smoked run a 1:55 half-mile, (totally untrained!).
Please excuse my teammate (Banhammer) , he likes controversy. He really loves our team and this sport. He has read up on the SoM but he reads up on so many different running plans that it is possible he mixed up the facts.
stresss fracture wrote:
Last summer, our XC team pretty much did our own thing, but based on the "summer of malmo". And it has worked better than ever before. We have 4 freshman under 17 minutes for 5K, one of them running 16:51 and two others under 17:30.
Our whole top 7 will be under 17:00 (and that is not including me) and we should have 3 possibly under 16:00 on a fast course.
I would just like to point out that we're a pretty small private school and don't have the manpower of some bigger schools.
I just read up again on the summer of malmo and don't know how close what we did is to the SOM. In previous years XC was not really taken seriously by the runners but this last summer we sat down with our coach and let him know we were gonna be 100% devoted this year. So we increased to 65 mpw from last years 45 mpw with 2 or 3 doubles per week at the peak. I know it's not a lot compared to other schools, but this was a big increase in milage from last year and we will increase again next year. 98 % of our miles were completely aerobic, just trying to build up a summer base. We occasionally had a couple tempo runs, (maybe every other week) and every 2 weeks we had a 2 mile time trial. We did little to no speedwork (we do this every year) and this has produced a trend of PR'ing like crazy during the end of the season and no burnouts.
Malmo: what do you think of this, is it close to a SoM?
stresss fracture meant 4 freshman under 18.
although by the end of the season they should all be well under 17