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Saturday 21 January 2012

Comeback PB

It's been over 2 weeks since my last blog post on my own parkrunfan blog, so I thought it was about time I did a quick post about my latest injury comeback.

I think the last time I (re)injured my calf was around the middle of November. And this time I finally realised that I needed to listen to my body and do the right things to make sure I fully recover. So I'm roughly 9 weeks into my latest recovery and I have been very sensible this time around. I started with 5 or 6 weeks of physio and lots of associated stretching and strengthening exercises.

I have taken my running comeback very slowly too. I waited a couple of weeks after the last injury before my first parkrun run/jog in 38 minutes plus. I have since progressed to 26 minutes, a couple around 23 and a couple around 21 minutes. Always hoping to improve week on week, but never too bothered about any specific target time.

Today was different. Today I really wanted a comeback PB, faster than my quickest time of this comeback which was 21:23 on Christmas eve. I was hoping it would be around 20:30.

Well I totally smashed by comeback PB and my 20:30 target time, finishing sub 20 minutes for the first since early October, with a time of 19:56. Considering I once did 30 out of 31 consecutive parkruns under 20 minutes, I feel this is where I should be.

If anything I felt that my fitness was the limiting factor today rather than my calf. Which is a sign I don't mind. I can work on my fitness, what I can't bare to think about is injury the calf again.

I can't see any more huge comeback PB improvements in the coming weeks, but I will settle for 5 to 10 seconds improvement until spring as that will see me getting back towards my best.

Hopefully next week I'll be finishing around the same time again, and more importantly, without injury.

6 comments:

  1. Nice one Ian, glad your come back is going well.

    Chris

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  3. Wow! Nice one Ian, hope my comeback after illness is as spectacular (one can dream!)

    Oops, not sure what happened there!

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  4. Well done mate remember i should be on the start line next week so i reckon you will go sub 19 for sure :)

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  5. Good news Ian.
    We clocked identical times this week! I, however, am not coming back from injury, so am less pleased with my performance.
    I believe Cov parkrun reach a certain milestone in a couple of weeks, so I may pop over to help celebrate, though I won't be hammering it as I have a race on the Sunday.
    Keep up the comeback!
    Dave (A81986!)

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  6. Thank you everyone for the comments. Unfortunately I'm going to miss the 2nd anniversary run. Ian, sub 19 is 3 or 4 weeks away at best I think.

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