I got a Garmin Forerunner 610 for Christmas and I'm excited as a jar full of jumping beans!
It's been five months since my back injury and despite my couple of previous posts that seemed positive about my recovery I was far too optimistic. At each and every visit to the physio for two months she continued to shake her head at the mere hint of running and in the end I even stopped mentioning it. Until my last physio session. She always looks very pleased for me when I reach the last session after an injury, like I've just graduated or something. I guess I have. After months of core strengthening and increasing the difficulty of those exercises along with increased walking sessions until we were up to a brisk 8km, she finally said she could do no more for me and sent me out into the world with a recovery plan to start running again.
That was about 2 months ago. The plan goes like this...
During our usual 5-8km walk run for a short distance ie 20-50 metres.
Continue walking till the end.
Take a rest day.
If the injury area doesn't inflame or cause pain, rinse repeat.
If the injury area does inflame discontinue running until it is better.
Week 2 rinse repeat 1 through 4 and increase run period to 50-100 metres.
Rinse repeat until we're back on track with our usual run distance... and by that calculation this is going to take a while.
Except... the two runs I've tried have both resulted in several weeks of recovery time in between.
/sigh
So the run recovery program is on hold until Jan. During each and every walk I spend the entire time trying not to run. I feel good when I'm out and now I just have to train the injured area not to remember the run on the day I injured it and it doesn't need to spasm and protect my back every time I run anymore. That's easier said than done apparently but I'm hopeful this Jan is it.
I'm raring to go, and so it my Garmin!
