Impossible Dream wrote:
Thanks for the encouragement.
I must also ask your forgiveness at my selfishness. I don't think I've asked about your recovery yet and how things are going?
Thanks for asking. I think it's on the mend, but it's unlike any muscular injury I've had before. When I raise my knee I feel compression and pain in the muscles at top front of the thigh (the bit being compressed, not the muscles being stretched); I think there is some chunk of a hip flexor or adductor still in spasm but it's too deep for my thumbs to reach. I can at least do most exercises now so hope it will resolve in another week. Meanwhile I ran 11 on Monday (3 miles at 6:00 pace) and 9 easy yesterday, but am resting today as a precaution. At least if I can do some tempo every 3 days or so and lift leg weights, I won't lose any more fitness.
I am feeling way more upbeat than I was because I finally stepped on the scales. I was fearing the worst after a week of eating heartily (wife and sister-in-law trying to outcook each other every night, yummy!), drinking most nights and then 2 days of "motorway cuisine", but somehow I DROPPED a couple of pounds while away. Now on 72.2kg / 159lb, my lightest in many, many years, and just 5lb above target. My suit trousers were hanging off me embarrassingly in a client meeting today and I think I need new ones!
So, if I can't train super-hard for a week or two, I can at least try to keep the weight dropping.