Week Seven: Clubbell Hero Evolution Training

 

When the Train gets Derailed!

 

Last Sunday the weather was really nice, it was Sunny for once and warm. Its been cold and really wet here in SW Ontario. So I was gearing up for my 35k run.
Water bottles filled, two with water and two filled with nuun water, a sugar free electrolyte drink. Dry tabs you just drop into your water.
http://nuun.com/products

Also along for the run I loaded up with Dates dried Apricots and grapes.

I set off, music going and the Garmin going ticking off the first 10 minutes and watching the Heart rate. On there long runs its really important that you keep your HR low, for me its between 140 150 range.. Running 10/1 helps with that.
One of my favourite places to run is a nature trail that runs through our city to another town, from my place I have to run 17k then turn around.
https://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201861807726070122030.00049f9ed03184d7c2c02

As the kilometres tick away and as I get closer to my turn around point things began to happen....
Cue suspenseful music,,, my left IT band started to tighten up. Once I got to the turn and now heading back it wasn't long before I had to stop and try to stretch it out, the problem with this is that the pain starts on the outside quad, that I can deal with but then it starts shooting pain to the outside knee.
For the next few K I ran walked stretched hoping to get through the run.
But at just before the 25 k mark I had to doing something I've never had to do,, make the call....
I had to call my Wife and submit. :(
I wasn't sure what hurt more, the physical or the mental.
 The link below explains what its about, last weekend I did run along 3 country roads that were sloped and it did start to get sore by the end of 32k but using the program in Clubbell Evolution Flow routines and cool down follow alongs it was good by mid week.
http://www.rice.edu/~jenky/sports/itband.v2.html

After see my Sports therapist at In Motion he also pointed out that the TFL can be a major factor it this issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_fasciae_latae_muscle

So for the rest of this week its foam rolling and back to Mobility and the cool down and flow videos from the Clubbell Hero Evolution program, thats the genius part. In this program and all the others Shane Hines puts out is that not only do you have all the tools you need to excel but also its not designed to just pound you to the ground and call it a workout.
I have full confidence I will be back up and running but I just have to put in the recovery work.
The only issue I do have is that the 50k trail race is about a month away and I'm not sure I will have time to build up to the distance in time to taper for race day, but I'm not giving up, "There's No Quit In Here"!..
I just have to finish, not win the race!

Here's a fun photo from last years Tough Mudder, No Quiting!!!

Thanks for stopping by,
Scott Burden.