Ok, I’m throwing in the towel.
Training for Bighorn is kicking my butt.
After running two 20 milers in a day, I decided that I’m not quite in the physical or mental place to tackle a 100 mile race.
I hope to do a few more 50’s to become more comfortable with that level of training and work my way up from there.
I don’t feel too bad about the time I spent trying. I learned a great deal about myself and my limits.
The dream lives on…
Bill Gross
Fellow Bloggers;
I want to put a shout out in the blogosphere.
One of our own, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman (Kareem), is in prison as we speak. His crime? Using his blog to express his personal views to the world. Views that did not follow the “party line” in Egypt.
Kareem’s prosecutor has exclaimed that he intends to wage jihad against ‘the likes of Kareem.’
Help right this tragedy!
Read about his plight, and more importantly, GET INVOLVED at freekareem.org
Bill Gross
Well, I thought my training schedule for Bighorn might be aggressive, and my body confirmed my suspicions.
After about 11 weeks of training, pain returned to my left knee.
For those who followed my training for Le Grizz, it’s the same pain I ran through in the final stages of training for that race, and the same pain I got prior to Richmond this past fall.
Yes, I should go see a doctor, but I’m afraid he’ll tell me to quit running. But I got a recommendation for a podiatrist who happens to also be a marathon runner. Sweet.
In any event, I had to cut back on running, as you can see in the training log.
I will also be revising the training schedule to allow more time for rest. I’ll increase mileage every 3 weeks, with two weeks of light running in between.
I have also resumed some light ham-string stretching and have resumed quad strengthening exercises twice a day.
It’s typical of me to stop doing something once it starts working. I can easily convince myself that, “my knee hasn’t hurt in a while, I can quit this strengthening exercises.”
I guess I can think anything I want, but reality is reality.
My biggest worry is that I’d be too far out of my training schedule to be ready for Bighorn. But I think I’ll be fine.
Summary for February, 2007:
Total miles run: 142.5
Total time running: 21:09:20
Got worried by a knee pain that started surfacing.
I cut a long training week short in hopes that a few weeks of light running would be best to see if I could prevent it from getting worse.
Stay warm,
Bill Gross