Forced Against Running Temporarily

What's next? I think a nice break from ultras until summertime. Then it's time to prepare for the next big adventure: Cactus Rose 50 mile run in October. For now, Kefah has made for me a running plan to increase my speed. Let's see how it goes.


I find it interesting that I concluded with this in my last post "A Tale of Two Loops" a little over a month ago…I am now injured and not running at all. Forced to wait and see what happens next for me.
The injury? Unconfirmed pulled adductor muscles and abdominal muscles. This started waaay back in November at Wild Hare 25K trail race. I had tripped on a stump, but as I tripped, I tensed up my abs and adductors to prevent myself from face planting. This sudden contraction of muscles started the injury. I kept on training and running races including the McAllen marathon and Bandera 50K trail race. It was at Bandera that I tripped again. I tightened up my muscles again to prevent the face plant. I really felt the discomfort. I kept training for Nueces, and It was during the hillwork and speedwork that I started to feel the pains during the training and overnight as I slept. I ran Nueces without any major pain, but felt it after the race.

Then, I got my new speedwork/marathon training plan from Kefah. It includes lots of speedwork and tempo stuff that I never done before. After week two, the pain was too much. I stopped the plan and rested about 4 days. The weekend was too tempting and ran 12 miles for  the Relay for the Cure event. Immediately the next day, I ran at SC with the gang, but I was done. I couldn't do much with the adductor pain hurting me.

I finally went to the doctor's office last Monday, and set up an ultrasound for this week. Hopefully it is nothing major. This past week of not running has been torturous. The afternoons have been great weather for running. Today, I went walking. WALKING. With the Boston marathon happening today and the nice cloudy weather, it was very hard for me NOT to go running. My body felt like it never ran before and it's driving me crazy to read my friends posting their workouts.

It will be interesting to see what happens next for me...