Comments on: Quick Question – Advice Please!

By: margaret

margaret — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:23:23 +0000

drink more water!

By: gazelle

gazelle — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:47:28 +0000

how did you break your toe? too much wine on a Sunday night?

Also, I bought a new grill yesterday, so if you’re around this weekend, you can come throw some meat on the barbie (not the barbie doll, that would be weird….) and we can drink more wine.

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By: T.A.O

T.A.O — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:24:51 +0000

I ran a 1/2 marathon last year and STILL haven’t recovered. (Well I have but I did a lot of laying around and dying for the weeks that followed.) This is why I am impressed that you have kept going strong without keeling over like me.

That said: I vote for taking it easy and giving yourself a little down time. This will allow you to come back with the vengeance on your 20k day.

But don’t listen to me. I am just a girl with a broken toe who hasn’t gone running all week and feels like a Manatee.

Lessons?

By: Alisa

Alisa — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:42:53 +0000

I’m going with biking! I know my legs feel a little heavy today after spin class last night. If it were me, I would take the run and the bike SUPER easy so you’re fresh for the 20k. OR eliminate one of them…bike to the pool instead of run? I dunno.

By: Wiggs (The Beholder)

Wiggs (The Beholder) — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:27:59 +0000

I don’t really know what I’m talking about when it comes to this stuff, so I won’t tell you what I think you should do. However – my legs have been giving me trubs for the past couple of weeks, so this week I decided to stay off of them as much as possible and stick mostly to swimming and shorter runs until my long run on Saturday. I feel like this is a good decision because now that they’ve had a break, I can really tell that I would be hurting myself by running more. I’m still stiff and sore and I can only imagining that sticking to my usual routine would make this worse.

So…if I were you, I’d ease off a bit on the running. But again, I know nothing.