Vidya wrote on 27 January
According to womensrunning.com (August 3, 2016 Charlie Watson), “it can be good for Marathon training to not go as planned”. This is encouraging to know. As it turned out, a seemingly innocuous stumble on my first long run led to a trip to Urgent Care and diagnosis of a broken foot.
While I am unable to run at the moment, I have not consigned my London hopes to dust just yet. Apparently, the injury is relatively minor and common, I have not needed a cast or boot and I am following medical advice as to what I can do. Strength and conditioning and cross training are my new best friends. My first call was to Coach Jenny who was brilliantly reassuring: this week I have started to adapt my running plan to sessions on the bike and in the pool.
Having not swum for more years than I can even remember, I signed up to an aqua fit class, where we mostly got shouted at by Mrs Louis Gossett, Jr and heckled by the lane swimmers in the adjacent pool. But as Richard Gere would discover, our drill sargeant also turned out to have a heart of gold and we heckled right back – “Woman power!” indeed. Not sure I’ll go back but much respect to those that do – it’s a lot harder than it looks.
This is all well and good you say, but where’s the running chat? I will be running – deep water running / aqua jogging. So far I’m trying not to sink. Thanks again to Jenny and also to my fellow bloggers Luke and Lisa, who have been very generous in sharing their experience and advice. London is still 3 months away; I’m just having to take a side road to get there…