This run puts me at just over 36 miles this week - second only to a 39 mile week in January for highest volume in a week. My plan a little over a week ago was to take next week (4/1 - 4/7) as a low mileage rest week, as I've been on my march to a new base of 40 mpw for about 5 weeks now and need a rest week. It was going to coincide nicely with a work trip, but now that trip got pushed out a week to April 9, so the past few days I had been thinking of hitting 40 next week, and then taking the rest week. However, this ankle tendon has gotten to a steady state condition the past few days where I think the combination of volume and daily running is keeping it from healing effectively. It's not getting worse, but it's improvement has stalled.
So the new plan is to accept next week as a rest week, and keep the streak going with short runs 1 to 1.5 mile runs to work on form and drills. Who knows - maybe I'll get lucky and the hotel I'll be staying at the following week will be conducive to running outside after the workday, and I can get right back on the train to a 40 mile week.
In the meantime, though, I'm planning on hitting the bike pretty good this coming week. That doesn't aggravate the ankle at all, and when I'm travelling I won't be able to do any bike workouts, so it seems an opportune time to get some short interval bursts in on the bike.
No comments:
Post a Comment