Week Zero

Last week I promised myself that I will try a little 5 minute run today.  As the time got nearer, I started to get increasingly nervous about it.  Even though I was very excited, I did still keep getting thoughts in my head like "what if it really is too early as it hasn't quite gone 3 weeks since my surgery?" or "what if I do some damage and it will delay my recovery even further?" I wasn't sure if the reason of not running for 4 weeks after surgery was because things hadn't healed or if it was purely for the doctors to safeguard themselves?

 

Anyway, I did my warm-up stretches and went for a quick walk around the block and then I ran.  Only slow but OMG, how much I loved it! Short of holding my phone in my hand, I had no way of working out when the 5 minutes was up, so I tried to estimate that if I ran around a particular block of houses, it would be about right.  However, I got back home and I had only done 3 minutes so I had to immediately go out and do some more.  In the end it worked out at nearly 7 minutes but I don't mind.

 

I can't say that I have noticed any problems yet and I hope it stays that way.  If I'm still okay tomorrow, I will extend the run to 10 minutes, then 15, 20, etc for the rest of the week.  At least I know one thing now; I'm pleased to note that the surgery was a complete success. Happy me :-)

Week Minus One

Two weeks post-op and I'm feeling a lot better.  In fact, the other day, I was just about cross the road at a pedestrian crossing when the lights changed.  Automatically, without thinking, I jogged accross and only realised afterwards what I'd done.  I was lucky and didn't get any repercussions from it but it made me realise how easily it could have gone wrong.

 

My walking exercises didn't quite go to plan as I had planned to walk up Penkhull New Road every day.  I did indeed walk every day but some days it was just on the flat.  The pain got worse just before it started to get better and I was worried I was putting strain on my surgical areas.  Just have to hope that flat walking is better than doing nothing.

 

Next Monday it is nearly three weeks since my surgery and I am going to add a little (maybe 5 minute) jog to my walking regime and increase it gradually each day.  That will prepare me for my 4 mile run the week after when training for Barcelona starts.

Week Minus 2

Not quite time for the training for Barcelona Half-Marathon but i have slowly started the recovery from my operation, on Wednesday.  Since I'm not allowed any running, I came to the conclusion that some uphill walking might help with keeping my legs, heart and lungs in some kind of fitness and hopefully will stop me piling on too many pounds.

Since Saturday, I have been walking every day for two miles including Penkhull New Road.  I can't really walk completely upright nor very fast but it's better than doing nothing.  It takes roughly around 40 minutes to complete so over a week that will mount up to 3 hours and 40 minutes and almost half of that is uphill.

 

Barcelona training will start on Tuesday 27th of November.  That first session is a 3 mile run/walk but I'm hoping to a little bit of running as part of my daily walk before that date.