Lots of Swimming
I’ve taken it easy on my foot since getting the cortisone injection. I haven’t run the past week since getting the injection, and for the first few days, I was a little concerned, as I was still feeling some pain. It seems to be a lot better now, though. I really can’t feel anything at all in the area where it has been hurting, even in the morning, when it normally would be the worst. I’m going to go for a 15 minute run tomorrow and am hopeful I won’t have any pain. I’ll probably continue to keep things conservative so that I can build up more strength in my foot to prevent the problem from recurring.
I only ended up biking once this week, but 1) it gave my foot a bit more rest and 2) I made up for it with more swimming. I ended up going a little more than 36,000 meters this week, which is my second highest ever. I swam with the Stanford Masters team a few times, which helped to mix things up a bit. I went to the 6am Saturday practice as the Stanford Homecoming/Reunion wsa afterwards, and I wanted to get training out of the way first thing. The main set was 4×400m on +30 (1:20 base) and then 4x(400m pull on +20, +0, -20, -40 and 100m easy). I think I went around 5:00 on the first 4 and went 4:37 on the last one. I might have gone a little faster but caught up to the person in front of me who didn’t make the interval. I had done 3000m+ pulling the day before, so it was a bit tiring.
I feel like I’m recovering faster from the swimming though, which is good. In addition to starting running again this week, I’ll bike more and continue doing more aerobic work in the swim. Then the plan is to do a 2 week race prep cycle (swim/bike - run will continue to be aerobic) to get ready for the San Francisco Triathlon in November. I’ve been doing race prep cycles for quite awhile now, and they are a little more physically draining than straight aerobic work. I felt like my body was ready to return to base work, but since I have one more race to go this year, I’ll make a little compromise.
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