I'm coming to the end of my line.
My 2 lingering injuries are on the brink of shutting down my Chicago Marathon.
1) Left hip/glute/hamstring
2) Right cuboid/fifth metatarsal
My left glute continues to be constantly sore. It feels like there's a big knot somewhere holding it hostage. As a result, I'm lacking in any fire power. For the last several weeks, I cannot extend my left leg straight out in front of me, or bend over and touch my toes. I fear that I may have tore something.
My right foot has started to improve (kinda). It feels fine when I'm not running, but once I ask it to go over 5 miles, it starts putting up a fuss. Something eventually falls out of place, and becomes an aching mess until I snap it back into place. It's then sore for the rest of the day, and if I'm lucky it recovers by the next morning.
So, same story as it was a couple weeks ago and without any significant improvement in spite of taking numerous days off and skipping ALL normal workouts.
Instead of building my training to 70 miles a week in the last month, I've stalled.
Unless something changes this week, I'm pulling the plug on the marathon. There's almost no way that I can get back to PR... let alone sub 2:40 shape in under 10 weeks.
My 2 lingering injuries are on the brink of shutting down my Chicago Marathon.
1) Left hip/glute/hamstring
2) Right cuboid/fifth metatarsal
My left glute continues to be constantly sore. It feels like there's a big knot somewhere holding it hostage. As a result, I'm lacking in any fire power. For the last several weeks, I cannot extend my left leg straight out in front of me, or bend over and touch my toes. I fear that I may have tore something.
My right foot has started to improve (kinda). It feels fine when I'm not running, but once I ask it to go over 5 miles, it starts putting up a fuss. Something eventually falls out of place, and becomes an aching mess until I snap it back into place. It's then sore for the rest of the day, and if I'm lucky it recovers by the next morning.
So, same story as it was a couple weeks ago and without any significant improvement in spite of taking numerous days off and skipping ALL normal workouts.
Instead of building my training to 70 miles a week in the last month, I've stalled.
Unless something changes this week, I'm pulling the plug on the marathon. There's almost no way that I can get back to PR... let alone sub 2:40 shape in under 10 weeks.
