Category: Injuries

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Injury and holidays

Still unaware of delay length

What is happening when you are injured? You not training. You trying to rest as much as can and try to recover. All good and sounds easy enough. But what if you injured and same time on holiday? Then you can be sure that your weight will go dramatically up. And that what just has happened to me during our recent holiers in Canada… Could run and train… but had always food in front of me. I know that I should be able to resist but food was so good that… I just gain couple of kilos. Now need to work on loosing these and getting back to proper fitness levels… Read more

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Rolando has jinxed it…

Heavy one

If someone had asked me to describe Malta in one word ‘chaos’ would probably be the one. Starting with day to day activities to the marathon organization. But you have to experience it at least once in your life (Leo, suddenly marathon in Nice is looking much better)… Me and Bozena were looking forward to that marathon. Malta, nice weather, sun. We couldn’t be more wrong. Wind, rain, lack of sun. But Sliema itself is great and you can just imagine how nice it can be when the weather is great. When writing these few first words (internet is BAD) can see that shy sun is showing little bit from behind the clouds. Still windy though. Anyway back to Malta marathon experience… Read more

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IBS just feck off…

Meds taken… dose increased. That didn’t help. Decided that I will need visit to the doctor. Appointment was scheduled for Friday and I’m glad that I did it. Got additional meds (strange, same dose but looks to be working better)… Now, 7 days on the new meds and after that back to regulars but with higher dose… Read more

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Ulcerative colitis won this time…

Well deserved medal

Today was the worst day of marathon run I ever had. Now, I know that my UC is back. Remission has finished. Illness is in full swing (at least now I know that all problems I had on the courses was caused by me eating too much for breakfast or day before)… So, need to beat it again. At this stage I have increased amount of medicine taken, trying to schedule specialist appointment and hope for the best… Read more

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Murphy’s law…

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… “all what can go wrong will go wrong”… and it has.

On Thursday I have slipped when jogging and stretched my hamstring. Not nice. I was trying to avoid guy, who was blocking the path, ‘playing’ with his mobile in the middle of it. I diverted onto wet grass patch and slipped (I know that my lovely Wife will tell you that paths / roads don’t belong to runners, but… it just annoys me when people do not respect others on the road – whether driving / walking / jogging / cycling). Avoided falling but when trying to keep my balance I felt discomfort in my hamstring. Read more

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New shoes and terrible pain

What worse you can do when you just have purchased new shoes? Yes, you guested it correct… You take these new shoes next day for a 13 km run. Great idea… You just need to be prepared for massive pain. Read more

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Knee pain

Another often runners injury called runner’s knee. Had that last year after coming back to training after trekking holiday in Nepal.

After NHS website again.

Knee pain

Knee pain, also called runner’s knee, can have many causes, such as swelling under the kneecap. Andy Byrne from David Roberts Physiotherapy in Manchester says that knee pain is the most common condition he treats in runners. Read more

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Heel pain

I think after last edge training (the one which I was able to get below 7 min per mile) I injured myself. Very fast run (of course for my standards) combined with mileage I’m doing caused my left heel to suffer. Nothing major but just couple days before run it can be pain in the … Read more