Past & Present

Past

2012  - I DNS PBIM Full marathon. Got injured with Shin Splint while training, the result of running too much, too soon. I could not run any distance further than 5KM. I felt depressed for not able to get to the starting line. It was only after the race date, that I started to build up the mileage and trained again.

2013  - Finished 1 half marathon with 02:23:01.

2014  - run 17KM hill on February, run PB half marathon on August, and finished my first full marathon on November.

Present 

2015  - At present, I am training for 25KM hill run on February.  Running Goal for this year is to run 2015KM.

Hopefully I can finish 1 half marathon & 1 full marathon this year.

A fun workout

Nov 8 7:20am-7:52am

Workout 6 of 28 - 20 minute interval workout , 60 seconds of hard running with a slow 90 seconds jog recovery and repeat for 8 times.

I love interval workout. It may be hard, but really fun. Although I am still not able to run fast at the similar pace for all the repeats, the session was short & fun. Varying running speed made it fun, and you will appreciate those recovery run more when you are huffing & puffing through the hard run.

Total distance : 5:04KM
Time : 00:32:35
pace : 6:28

Warmup 5 min - 7:12

5:19 (7:12)
5:94 (6:47)
5:06 (6:47)
4:42 (6:50)
5:04 (7:09)
4:40 (7:08)
5:15 (7:12)
5:00 (7:38)

Cooldown - 7:14

3.90KM

Workout 5/28 1.5mile moderate run.

Nov 6 Tuesday 7:46am - 8:10am

Running a bit fast and longer distance ended with pain on my shin. It should be only 2.4KM run, and a slow one.


1Km 6:45
2Km 6:04
3Km 6:06
4Km 6:15


Thoughts : which one is worse ?
1) training for few months & ready for the race but the race was cancelled
2) training for few months, but have to give up the race because of the injury

45 minutes run

Workout 4 of 28 - 45 minutes run

Running 45 minutes shouldn't be a problem for me, but this was the longest run that I had done since end of August.

I could feel the mild pain on my lower leg after running for about 30 minutes. Adjusting the way my foot landed on the floor seemed to eliminate the pain.

7:17am - 8:11am
Total distance : 8.07KM  Time : 00:53:53  pace : 6:40min/KM

1KM - 6:41
2KM - 6:46
3KM - 6:36
4KM - 6:50
5KM - 6:46
6KM - 6:38
7KM - 6:40
8KM - 6:31
9KM - 5:30

5KM painfree

Workout 3 of 28

Moderate run of 2.4KM

Running 5.76KM instead of the planned 2.4KM. The best part is the run this morning was painfree. I noticed that if I run at a faster pace, I can in fact run pain free !

Total distance : 5.76KM
Time : 00:40:07
Avg pace : 6.58 min/km

8:14 / 6:33 / 6:40 /6:48 / 6:44 / 6:48

Interval workout

Workout 2 of 28.

I am using Runkeeper to track my training. Since I am having shin splint so I decided to take it slowly and follow the Beginner 5K Plan by Mike Deibler M.S., C.S.C.S. This is an 8 week progressive program and the schedule plan can be downloaded to the program and save into my mobile. For each workout I just need to follow the individual schedule, and the program can track my timing and distance.

Today's workout is an interval workout. What I need to do is to run at a faster pace for 60 seconds followed by 90 seconds of slow jog and repeat it for 8 times.

It was not very easy, but I did not feel the pain on my lower leg during the whole workout. Unfortunately, pressing the wrong key let me lost the record of the whole workout.

Reality

It's time to face reality.

I foolishly believed that I can still train through the pain and run my first marathon in few weeks time. That was the thoughts I had when I was resting nursing the shin splint I had. 

After 3 weeks of doing no run, only walk, and some resistance training, I had my run this morning. I was careful and trying to take it slowly and doing run walk routine. The pulling pain at my lower leg started at about 3km. It was just a slow 5 min run with 1 min walk. I wanted to do at least 5KM but had to end the training earlier. 

I am feeling distressed that I have to pull out from the November race.

28/10/12 Sunday 7:03am-7:35am
Distance : 4.23KM
Time : 00:32:01
Avg Pace : 7.34min/km

Splits :
5:00 warmup -  8:32
5:00 run - 7:17
1:00 walk - 6.46
5:00 run - 7:20
1:00 walk - 7:04
5:00 run - 7:35
1:00 walk - 6.52
5:00 run - 7:38
1:00 walk - 7:09
5:00 run - 7:49