Stupid fecking leg.

Blah. I think I may be injured from running.

It all started after doing one of my fave races. The Famous Grouse fell race. The finish is down a track, just the right gradient to full on bomb it down, which I did. Slapping my feet down to gain an extra place. After that my leg problems started. Probably didn't help doing another fell race the week after.

Famous Grouse 22nd/94 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/temples-bin/hc.pl?a=list&d=hc&f=famous-grouse-2013
Gravy Pud 44th/228  http://www.nblg.co.uk/?page_id=226

After various consultations / chatting to medical people i know / looking stuff up on t'internet I think I've figured out what's up with my left leg.

Iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS) with a bit of bursitis.

These sum it all up pretty well:
http://www.runnersworld.com/tag/hips
http://www.runnersworld.com/tag/itbs-iliotibial-band-syndrome

I did cut my mileage down from about 50 miles a week to 20ish and my hip / leg pain pretty much went. But after doing a Park Run yesterday in Wythenshawe it's become a little painful again.

7th/122 http://www.parkrun.org.uk/wythenshawe/results/weeklyresults/?runSeqNumber=120

My plan is to stretch & use my foam roller for self massage of the area, but keep on running & keeping the mileage low. Also, use the gym to cross train, using the rower and stuff like that.

Stupid fecking leg.

New Years Reso's

Here's a self indulgent blog post for you (though most blogs are, aren't they?).

My new years resolutions are mainly to do with exercise or food/drink. Maybe they should be called new years targets. Anyway, here goes:

Fitness

Run a minimum of 100 miles a month (Easy enough, just a baseline really. Was doing 200 p/m before my hip/leg started playing up).

Fell run at least fortnightly (I've been a right slacker with the hills lately, probably should do more hill reps or something like that).

Attend the gym at least 3 times a week (Joined the gym last month, and have been doing this anyway. I'll probably quit at some point in the spring to save on cash)

Do a proper bike ride once a week (I commute on my push bike all the time, probably cover about 50 mile+ a week, I just haven't donned the lycra in a while)

Belly fat

Fast once a week (I saw this on that vizzle box, I thought I'd give it a try. Heard good things about doing it)

Keep off the mono/disaccharides (In other words, no more sugars/sweets/cakeygoodness. Unless I'm doing running stuff....)

No more booze (Alcohol is badbadbad. Need to cut it out for a while. Maybe for a few months or something).

Count those calories (I'm a proper gannet when it comes to food. Calorie counting should stop me eating too much, and make sure I don't eat too much shit food)

Other stuff

There's more, but I'm bored of writing this. I think I'm going to go outside.