injury – mad IT runner

February 12, 2017

When you injured

Ohhh… plenty is happening then. Plenty but unfortunately most of these things are not great. Let me start that list:

lower back muscle pain – root of all problems,
left side ribs muscle pain,
left side chest pain,
can’t breathe (cause of 3),
using at most 50% capacity of lungs,
can’t sleep (cause of 1, 2, 3),
tired,
can’t train at all (not even bike),
mood is down,
eating even more than when training,
constant angry,
personal strains,
stop blogging.

All that has started just after Dublin Marathon. Third day after I couldn’t run. Following day chest pains started and I couldn’t lay down in bed cause of pain. Could get maybe 2-3 hours sleep when I was sitting. Horror… Was twice in emergency to be informed that blood is ok, nothing is broken, lungs ok. Probably strained muscle. But why it is so painful and why back is causing chest pains as well? Pain killers not working, same with antyinflammatory. Just pain… Last chance was physio. This time it wasn’t as quick as last time. Read more

April 24, 2016

New best FRIEND

Almost forgotten thoughts after injury…

Never believed in that, never liked it. My physio friend, Michal, was always telling me that rolling is the best thing ever for a runner. Physio who was treating me for my inflame chin muscle said the same. But of course I was wiser than all physio’s and all my friends… Read more

April 24, 2016

Thank you…

Forgot that this post was in drafts, never published. So, please find that overdue post…

I would like to thank you for all your good wishes…

It is very hard not to be able to run as I would like to. After last year melt down I was already started recovery. Was starting 10 week of the running program to prepare me for running my best marathon in June. So, what has happened. Two marathons in Clonakilty and I felt small pain in my doing muscle. And that was just beginning of the story. 4 weeks out with injury. Great physio, good recovery. Was allowed to run one marathon during recovery. IBS kicked in doing run. Ohhh, bad luck. After that last session with physio and got the green light to start running. Was glad that it was over. Swimming and stationary bike is not the same. Hitting treadmill was like a blessing. 3 weeks without running, was really missing that. One run, 10 miles. Was happy. Worse came next day. 38 degrees fever. Almost one week in bed, flat. Just belly was growing (still is). Lost whole month of training. Not too bad but lost as well that to months of program training before that. Lost all fitness. So, I’m in the same place as I was on the beginning of December. Or maybe not, back then was little bit lighter and was able to run every day… Read more

February 20, 2016

Painful session at physio

Through out my so called ‘sports career’ I never been injured for longer period of time. Usually I was

out for couple of days, week tops. Usually pain just comes and goes, no big deal. But this time it is different. First was that small pain during marathon run in Clonakilty. Nothing out of ordinary. But after that it was just slippery slope. Tuesday speed session pulled hamstring in the left leg. Not too bad. Day rest and back to running… Hamstring ok but felt terrible pain in the same leg but in shin. If hamstring pain was let say – 4 in scale from 1 to 10, then shin pain was about 7. With couple of days before Donadea not a great prospects… And, as suspected I have tried to run 50K on Saturday with really, really bad outcome. Lasted just one 5 km loop and decided to pull out from the race. When I was limping to the car I have decided that I need proper help. New challenge, find good physio and find it fast. I was looking someone local but it was really hard to get any appointment for Saturday. Actually it was really hard to get any reply on appointment requests. Thanks to Facebook and Finton’s recommendation I have decided that it is better to use physio with great reputation than look locally to save time on travelling. Anyway, decision has been made – Pearse Street Physiotherapy Clinic. Read more

February 14, 2016February 14, 2016

And he’s gone…

Yep, that was the last words I heard during today’s Donadea 50K run… Unfortunately I have finished my race just after one lap – 5 km. After last week struggle with injuries – hamstring and shin splint I thought that maybe there is small, tiny chance of running… I was wrong. Read more

February 13, 2016

Afraid of…

Afraid now… After weekend run in Clonakilty I was back to speed sessions… Was glad. Looks like I was able to keep the pace set in the plan. Only disadvantage probably is me training inside, in gym, on the treadmill. But still doing my best to stay on track… Read more

August 3, 2015August 14, 2015

Injury and holidays

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

February 23, 2015February 23, 2015

Rolando has jinxed it…

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

July 20, 2014

It has to be curse

Second run from Dublin series and I could not run… Instead of running on the streets of Swords I was lying in my bed for whole weekend with flu and fever of 39 degrees. It has to be some kind of a curse that I cannot run any of these Dublin series runs. Read more

May 31, 2014

Murphy’s law…

… “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