During the rest week all I did was core work, but was still feeling tired, even falling asleep in the chair, which isn’t like me. On the Saturday I didn’t feel right, but I managed to pin point why I was feeling a bit nauseous, when I closed my left eye, I couldn’t see properly out of my right eye. I had a blind spot, it was as if I was looking through frosted glass. This left me feeling quite uncomfortable, but I just put it down to possibly a scratch or something that would just go away in time.
Well this is fast becoming a non running blog! A week gone Tuesday I had a stinker of a session, one of my worst ever, we put it down to being tired and over training so decided to have a week off.
During the rest week all I did was core work, but was still feeling tired, even falling asleep in the chair, which isn’t like me. On the Saturday I didn’t feel right, but I managed to pin point why I was feeling a bit nauseous, when I closed my left eye, I couldn’t see properly out of my right eye. I had a blind spot, it was as if I was looking through frosted glass. This left me feeling quite uncomfortable, but I just put it down to possibly a scratch or something that would just go away in time.
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After a really good winter of training, I have eventually ran myself to a standstill. As anyone who has been reading my blog will know the first 3 months of this year I was running 80 to 85 miles and 3 good sessions a week, I did a few of the local relays and then Blyth and North Tyneside 10k’s. My races went well, but looking back I think I actually peaked about two weeks before Blyth, I was flying in sessions, running fast and feeling strong. The last few sessions haven’t been going so well, I’ve been feeling more and more tired and this Tuesday it all ground to a halt. After my race on Sunday my legs felt tired so I had an easy run on the Monday and a light massage off Clare. I remember a time long, long ago when I was young and I had bouncy fresh legs, Id go down to the track do 800 meters warm up blast a session 800m warm down, get home, go to bed and wake up ready to go again. It was also possible in those days to race a couple of times a week and have no problems, now however, it’s another story. I race on a Sunday and it takes me best part of a week to get over it. After Blyth 10k last week and a rest week I felt like I was in pretty good shape for this race. Initially I was a bit disappointed with my run at Blyth, I had gone there with a time in mind and set off with that intention. I set off hard but struggled to maintain the pace in the wind and ran slower than I’d hoped for, but after I had time to reflect on it I was quite pleased with a solid run in windy conditions. Morning preparations went as usual, up early, breakfast, drive to the event and warm up. The temperature was perfect, nice and cool and fairly still, however it turned out to be quite breezy on the sea front, but as a Whitley bay lad I knew this was as good as perfect as we’d get for a run to the lighthouse. After my race At Blyth on Sunday, my legs were sore from the effort. I wasn’t having the best of races and I had to dig deep to run a decent time, my legs knew about it afterwards. Im racing again on Sunday at North Tyneside 10k, so I knew this week would have to be an easy one. I started the week with two very easy short run’s, my legs were heavy and tired, I certainly wasn’t looking forward to my session on Tuesday. Normally on a race week Id do sessions on Tuesday and Thursday (if it’s a Sunday race) if it’s a Saturday race then Id still do a very light session on the Thursday, but this week having back to back races I was only planning on doing Tuesdays session. Since the start of the New year my training has been going really well, my sessions have been getting better and better by the week, but in the last two weeks I’ve had a couple of poor sessions. On Tuesday I did a session on the track and my legs were mashed. Well perhaps not mashed, just heavy and tired. Having a race on Sunday I decided to take it easy for the rest of the week. Most of my running was very easy, I had a rest day and a massage so the taper went well and I was hoping that this would freshen my legs. |
Iain TwaddleIain Twaddle is one of the most popular runners on the North East athletics circuit. He joined his local running club, North Shields Poly, at the age of 9 and reached County level as a teenager. He since gone on to become one of Britain's top veteran distance runners. Archives
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