First outdoor run of the year. It's quite pleasant out. It went really quite well though I seem to have lost another yard of pace. I didn't think I was as slow as I actually was. It's timely as I have the first refereeing gig of the year on Tuesday; a high school junior tournament in Aurora. That shouldn't be too demanding but the following ( Read more... )

Now that the refereeing has dropped off a bit and with it the plantar fasciitis I've started running again. Today was my third time out and my first timed run. I did 3.2km in 16m53s which is pretty reasonable considering I wasn't pushing hard. Bottom line, the refereeing has kept my fitness level at or above where it was when I was just using ( Read more... )

3.2km 16m55s

3.2km 15m49s

17m 20s this morning. That's better than I was doing in early May last year.

First run in shorts of the year. 3.2km in 18m30s. That's slow but it's still only March and I have weight to lose. Time for the bear to shed his winter coat.

The weekend before last I went to nomads indoor training and rather overdid with the result that i was pretty much crippled for two days afterwards. This Sunday I paced myself better. Even during the warm up I was feeling tight through the groin area and so stopped and took some time out to thoroughly stretch the tight area. I probably did about ( Read more... )

This morning I ran outdoors for the first time since injuring my ankle at Christmas. For the first time since then it's been above freezing for long enough that I could be reasonably sure that the sidewalks would not be icy. I ran for a bit over 5 minutes at a reasonable, fairly fluent pace. Everything felt fine. No soreness in the ankle and ( Read more... )

Yesterday my physio cleared me to start exercising again. I was to start with ten minutes of something running related, like running on a treadmill or stairclimbing but stop if the pain reached 3/10. If OK then I was to increase the amount by a couple of minutes each day. I've just done ten minutes of stair climbing. I'd put the pain at 1.5-2/ ( Read more... )

Round about Christnas, for no apparent reason, my right ankle decided to stop working. This is, admittedly, incident one squillion and one in a long running saga but I'm fed up as basically both ankles had been performing quite adequately for the last year or so. Bottom line, I currently need a lace up brace on my ankle just to be able to walk ( Read more... )