I've been missing You

LSD Daydreaming & Interval Runs

LSD is runners’ favorite drug! It’s great for sightseeing, exploring new zones, chatting with running buddies, admiring views, meditating. It’s relaxing and energizing at the same time. But, when you mix your long run with a complex interval workout, the going gets tough. And, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, or get hurt. I got hurt.

When it’s more than just a crush

It was a sunny Sunday morning of December 12^th. I was looking forward to doing this long interval running. I wanted to give my best, to test my limits and try to go beyond them. Yes, I asked for it, I wanted it to be hard, to be challenging, to make me regret asking for it, to make me ask myself why the hell I am doing it, cursing that warm October evening of 2005, the day I decided to be part of the crazy running community. Be careful what you wish for, they say, you might regret it, they say. And they were right about it.

The great day arrived. I was so excited I couldn’t sleep well. My workout should have been: 20min of warm-up in the easy aerobic zone, 5 x 200m, 5 x 1000m, 5 x 200m and a cool down. It was a tough period of the year, I had some decisions to make, a bit of pressure at work, but my focus was pretty much on that Sunday. I had a date with that work-out. I put on the most beautiful running clothes I have, I got pretty and I even put a bit of mascara. I wanted everything to be impeccable, so I put a pair of compression socks and planned my work-out on Garmin Connect.

I was doing the second split of the last five (5x200m), I had been running for an hour and a half, when, all of a sudden, I felt a sharp pain a few centimeters above my ankle. The pain was so raging I couldn’t run the last 5-10m. I walked a bit, stretched and, after a pause, I decided to continue my workout (after all, I had already run for more than 13K and had just 600 more meters before the cool down. The finish line was in my eyesight!). I ran just 8m of 200m when the excruciating spasm literally made me cry, made me put my tail between my legs and go home (link to the training).

I couldn’t walk for a few days. When I realized the time itself won’t heal it, I went to see a doctor. The ultrasound showed 4cm long and 1cm deep tissue damage. The antibiotics therapy didn’t help me. In a few days I will take the Echo Doppler test and start with a laser therapy. I really hope I will be able to run again soon because it’s running that makes me smile, charges me up, fueling me with positivity and motivating me to try harder, to give more. But hey, obstinacy is my second name and two lousy runningless months won’t stop me achieve my goal! IM 70.3, I'm comming!

I've been missing you

I’ve been missing you

A lalalala long

A lalalala long long lee long long long, come on

A lalalala long

A lalalala long long lee long long long, hey-a

Daydreaming ‘bout that run

made me smile,

I knew I would be Ex-Haust-Ed

for a little while.

But before I began my run

my emotions started running wild.

I was excited

and that’s no lie.

If you’d looked in my eye-ye-ye-ye-eyes,

You’d have seen panic in my eye-yes, ooh ya.

Now got this to say to you, yeah

Boy, it really made me sweat

Sweat ‘til I could sweat no more.

I was ‘bout to cry out

but I pushed ahead some more-ore-ore.

Boy, it really made me sweat

Sweat ‘til I could sweat no more.

I was ‘bout to cry out,

but I pushed, pusched ahead some more.

A La La La La Long

A La La La La La La Long Long Lee Long Long Long, come on!

A La La La La Long

A La La La La La La Long Long Lee Long Long Long, ooh

So I asked myself

if I could do it or not

But the answer was

really close to get

And with a little bit of this

and a little bit of that

There comes the pain attack

My legs got tied

And that’s no lie

If you’d just looked in my eye-yes

You’d have seen the dreadful pain in my eye-eyes

Ooh yeah

(and I’ve got this to say to you)

Boy, it really made me sweat

Sweat ‘til I could sweat no more.

I was ‘bout to cry out

but I pushed ahead some more-ore-ore.

Boy, it really made me sweat

Sweat ‘til I could sweat no more.

I was ‘bout to cry out,

but I pushed, pusched ahead some more.

A La La La La Long

A La La La La La La Long Long Lee Long Long Long, come on!

A La La La La Long

A La La La La La La Long Long Lee Long Long Long, ooh