Well, I hope everyone had a merry Christmas!!
This year I was fortunate enough to not only get a new wetsuit from my family, but also a great new CycleOps Trek bike trainer which is pretty great considering the weather is crap and I can use it anytime during the day while watching movies! Brilliant!
So since the Philadelphia marathon i've been battling serious knee problems. It finally got to the point where i scheduled an appointment with the Rochester Rhinos knee surgeon. Went in last Wednesday and temporarily settled for getting my right knee shot up with a lidocaine / cortisone shot.
I'll tell you what... at first when the lidocaine was working, my knee felt like gold. But after that wore off, the pain was incredible for the next two days. Only now, about a week later, my knee is starting to really feel better, although i'm still icing and taking my anti inflammatories. I've also resigned myself to the fact that i won't be doing any serious run training until probably March. A questo punto, its probably the only way to make sure this problem won't continue for months and months and make racing Ironman impossible. Not to mention ruin any chance i have at being successful this next season.
More likely than not, I will probably not do any more marathons previous to the Ironman due to the fact I'm apparently at risk for physically falling apart. If i couldn't finish or even compete in Ironman, there would be no words as to the devastation i'd be feeling.
So here i am, cycling on my trainer and swimming. The team i swim with here in Canandaigua did some stroke evaluation video taping on Tuesday which we reviewed afterwards, and I'm happy to say that i've improved a lot since the start... in every respect. There's a "community meet" on Monday that we're going to swim in just to get some times, so it should be interesting.
Due to the fact that i'm RARELY cycling outside right now, and because i'm far to lazy to switch my computer from the front wheel to the back of my bike, I will be calculating different things when I ride my trainer now.
1. Mainly i'll be keeping track of the minutes / hours I've been on it.
2. I have a heart rate monitor that i'll use to make sure i'm in my ideal workout zones.
3. I took a look at all my old logs, and found that my average speed for a ride was usually around 18-19 mph depending on the route. So for the sake of getting "mileage" out of my trainer rides, I decided that i'd assign 17 mph as my average distance per hour of riding. I realize this might be a little low, but i'd rather claim a lower training distance over time than say i've been riding further than what is actually true.
17 miles / 60 minutes = .283 miles per minute
I guess thats all for now really. Now that i'm not a complete cripple i will hopefully have more interesting things to update from here on out... although, like i said, running will have to wait until March rolls around.
1 comment:
I think deciding to run a marathon before your Ironman is a wise decision especially if you're out of running commission till March. I've learned the hard way that a marathon by itself takes too long to recover for and really hurts your build to a successful IM. Rest up and good luck with recovery. See you in Placid.
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