“How’s it going everybody now you’re very welcome to this evening’s cabaret….” Good man Christy!!! So I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon and start up an oul blog for myself. Its an option I have toyed with over the last few months and now I’ve decided to bite the bullet.
The inspiration for this blog comes mainly from my good friend Keith Kelly and his blog. You can find it here. Around about this time last year Keith decided to start up a blog in an effort to try and get himself back running competitively and thats exactly why I’m doing it.
Running wise, 2009 has been good and bad for me, but mainly bad! I started back running in January after a few weeks off with a bilateral hernia operation and gradually got fit enough to race in Inter Clubs in Santry at the start of March. I finished 3rd behind Keith Kelly and Mark Kenneally and felt like I was getting somewhere. A week later I won my 3rd Ballycotton title in 49.06, with Sean Connolly 7 seconds back in a brilliant debut over the distance. After that I ran 14.20 at the Road Relays in Raheny, helping Raheny to break the course record. Sean was just behind me again that day. Onwards from there, I finished 2nd at the National Road 10km Champs, which Sean won fairly easily. So things were going well overall for me so far. The next race I ran went very well I thought – 5th at the Great Ireland 10km in the Phoenix Park in 29.28. This is when I started to dream about the upcoming track season and some fast times on the road in a Half Marathon in Holland a few weeks later. Things were looking good.
About 2 weeks after the Great Ireland race things went pear-shaped for me!! I started a few track sessions with the Raheny lads (and Sean!) at ALSAA and started to notice my left shin getting sore (Anterior Tibialis muscle to be exact). I was forced to take some time off in the hope of starting back up again a week or 2 later. That didn’t happen. I got 2 MRI scans on it over the summer and was given cortisone into the shin which was supposed to help. It made it worse. My advise to anyone reading this would be stay well clear of cortisone. It is a catabolic steroid which destroys tissues and breaks down muscles. This is what happened to my shin since the injection in July. My way of describing Cortisone is to compare it to a smoke alarm. Getting cortisone injected is akin to hearing a smoke alarm and taking out the batteries so that the noise stops. The fire is still raging, but the signals have stopped. I hope that makes some sense!! I have since gotten laser treatment on the area 3 times (once a month) to promote healing in the tissues and it has reacted very well to the treatment. I am also getting massage from Dave Corcoran and Anthony Geoghegan regularly and this is all helping to get me back stronger. I just hope and pray that something will click soon and I can get back running pain free.
For the moment I still have a bit of pain in the area and I’m hobbling around on short runs in the hope of building up the distance and also building up strength in the lower legs. I am going to start writing here as often as I can. This will have the effect of getting me out the door and doing everything in my power to get strong again. Easier said than done, but you gotta start somewhere! Also, if any of you are reading this and start to see any patterns or bad decisions or want to offer advise, I’m all ears!!!
To read more about this article go to Vinny’s blog :
https://www.vinnymulveyfitness.com/training/category/blog/
The inspiration for this blog comes mainly from my good friend Keith Kelly and his blog. You can find it here. Around about this time last year Keith decided to start up a blog in an effort to try and get himself back running competitively and thats exactly why I’m doing it.
Running wise, 2009 has been good and bad for me, but mainly bad! I started back running in January after a few weeks off with a bilateral hernia operation and gradually got fit enough to race in Inter Clubs in Santry at the start of March. I finished 3rd behind Keith Kelly and Mark Kenneally and felt like I was getting somewhere. A week later I won my 3rd Ballycotton title in 49.06, with Sean Connolly 7 seconds back in a brilliant debut over the distance. After that I ran 14.20 at the Road Relays in Raheny, helping Raheny to break the course record. Sean was just behind me again that day. Onwards from there, I finished 2nd at the National Road 10km Champs, which Sean won fairly easily. So things were going well overall for me so far. The next race I ran went very well I thought – 5th at the Great Ireland 10km in the Phoenix Park in 29.28. This is when I started to dream about the upcoming track season and some fast times on the road in a Half Marathon in Holland a few weeks later. Things were looking good.
About 2 weeks after the Great Ireland race things went pear-shaped for me!! I started a few track sessions with the Raheny lads (and Sean!) at ALSAA and started to notice my left shin getting sore (Anterior Tibialis muscle to be exact). I was forced to take some time off in the hope of starting back up again a week or 2 later. That didn’t happen. I got 2 MRI scans on it over the summer and was given cortisone into the shin which was supposed to help. It made it worse. My advise to anyone reading this would be stay well clear of cortisone. It is a catabolic steroid which destroys tissues and breaks down muscles. This is what happened to my shin since the injection in July. My way of describing Cortisone is to compare it to a smoke alarm. Getting cortisone injected is akin to hearing a smoke alarm and taking out the batteries so that the noise stops. The fire is still raging, but the signals have stopped. I hope that makes some sense!! I have since gotten laser treatment on the area 3 times (once a month) to promote healing in the tissues and it has reacted very well to the treatment. I am also getting massage from Dave Corcoran and Anthony Geoghegan regularly and this is all helping to get me back stronger. I just hope and pray that something will click soon and I can get back running pain free.
For the moment I still have a bit of pain in the area and I’m hobbling around on short runs in the hope of building up the distance and also building up strength in the lower legs. I am going to start writing here as often as I can. This will have the effect of getting me out the door and doing everything in my power to get strong again. Easier said than done, but you gotta start somewhere! Also, if any of you are reading this and start to see any patterns or bad decisions or want to offer advise, I’m all ears!!!
To read more about this article go to Vinny’s blog :
