Week review

March 30, 2009

Last week I was a bit lazy blogging, so here comes a short summary of what happened training-wise in my life. Everything went more or less smooth until Sunday morning. I had some faster sessions on Monday (4×3.000m indoors) and Thursday (on/off kilometers-altogether 5 slow and 5 fast one). Even if the quality was not too high and the achieved speed was half-marathon pace or even slower, I was pretty satisfied. Last autumn I did not do any track workouts at all but I still ended up running 30:34 for 10K (with altitude camp though). This winter I did some 400, 800, 1000 and 3000 meter repetitions and the leg turnover should be better than last autumn.

So, the week was quite good until Sunday. We had a lot of sun the previous week and only on Saturday evening it started snowing again. As I woke up on Sunday the streets were again white and a thin layer of snow covered the ground. About 15minutes into my easy morning run it suddenly happened on a downhill part: I did not see the ice under the snow and with in 2 steps I found myself on the concrete. With my back and head first I hit the ground and was almost knocked out – Oooch. It took my about 10 seconds to breathe again and I was lying on the ground without moving what felt like a minute. Thousand thought went through my head, anything from “you just got yourself a ticket to hospital” to “great, 1 week before the German Championships you are lying on the ground”. After some minutes of recovering from the shock and being on my feet again, some caring Finns told me that there was blood in my face: Great, I had a laceration on the head.

As I realised today (after seeing a doctor) I was lucky that things didn’t turn out worse. Except for the laceration, which already is healing I have no severe injuries or hematoma on the head. Still I couldn’t move my head for the last days and it’s getting better only slowly. Of course also training suffered and I had to skip and reduce trainings. Since it is less than one week to race day this is alright, because the main work is done anyway. Now it’s all about recovering both from the crash and the tough training from the last weeks.