3.08km training, 0.51km run, 0.52km run -> 34.38/100km complete
Had to drive to training today as I left my family home too late to come back and run all the way there. So I managed to run a little more during the session than on Monday. Ran to the shop after to pick up a pizza for dinner, and ran back from the shop after. 4.11km in total for the day. Not as much as I’d have liked, but not bad considering the quads are still recovering.
Rest day -> 30.27/100km complete
With football trainings yesterday and tomorrow, today was an important rest day. I have a couple of days off work as I was going to fly over to the Ireland soccer match that’s on today, but with only finding out the location country on Thursday, and a couple of other things going on, I opted to watch it in a pub with a couple of friends instead. So I spent a lot of today decluttering my room, and got a massage, in which my massage therapist noted that my quads were very tight. Which is accurate as I did have a mild quad strain recently from all the running. I then had the joy of watching Ireland beat Scotland 1-0 to qualify for their first ever World Cup.
Rest day -> 11.83/100km complete
Today was a much-needed rest day. My quads are still sore after not getting a full break yesterday, and my blister is healing slowly but surely and the skin is starting to toughen up a bit at last. Didn’t put shoes or socks on or leave the house to maximise the rest and recovery and hopefully be ready to play a football challenge match tomorrow. Hoping this is not needed many other days this month.
3.83km football training session -> 11.83/100km complete
My quads were still sore today, and the blister was looking better, but still definitely there and ready to come back if put under too much strain. I put a solid amount of cushioning around the outside of it so that it would be less likely to meet friction with my shoe when walking to an appointment and training. I opted to cycle to training, as there was no point doing much more damage.
I was glad I could at least kick the ball at training and kick with a decent amount of power too even if I had to hold back on full power shots. I covered 3.83km bringing me up to 11.83km in total. Less than I’d have liked, as I usually cover 4-4.5km in a session, and if I’d been able to run there and back that would’ve added another approximately 3.5km which would have had me flying it. Not too bad though for a session where I was both in a terrible headspace, and injured. I’ll be resting again tomorrow, which will leave me behind schedule early on, but I’ll try to add to it a bit on Wednesday and later in the week.
Not too much time in the month has passed yet, so I’m staying optimistic about the challenge. Worst case scenario I’ll need to have my feet up doing zero kilometres for a few days once November arrives, but that would work better than needing to do that during the challenge.
Rest day -> 8/100km complete
As planned, today was a rest day for the legs. I decided to do a core workout because I had no great plans for the day, had the time to what with not working, and don’t get around to core work (or any additional exercise outside of football and soccer trainings) as often as I’d like. I’ve also read that it can help runners to have a strong core, especially if they want to avoid lower back pain when running, which is the dream really. I went for my usual, which is a 20-minute core workout for soccer players. I like that it’s tailored a bit more towards soccer players even though it may well be much the same as a lot of core workouts. And I like that I can complete it and know what to expect.
I drained my blister last night to try to help speed up the healing. It looked better this morning but definitely needed a lot more rest. Took two more foot baths with hot salty water to try to help it along further. It still looks a bit angry but hopefully the rest will help and it’ll be okay to run on tomorrow. I even cycled the very short trip to the shop to save walking on it a bit. Will not be leaving the house again before training tomorrow, so it’s going to be rested and aired the maximum amount possible until then.
I’ve definitely felt some mild quad and hamstring strain in both legs today, slightly more so the right one which is my kicking leg, so I’m seriously hoping the rest helps with that too and it’s not lingering too much for too long.
If I haven’t recovered enough to train tomorrow, that throws a large enough spanner in the works early on, but at this point I’m hopeful. My plan was to run to training, train, and run back, to clock up about 7km or 8km in total. I may need to cycle there instead and just do the training, which would alter my mileage plans significantly, but which could be fine and would be much better than having to rest it for the entire day again. Fingers and/or toes crossed my feet and legs are back in action tomorrow!
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