It is three weeks since surgery. For the majority of that time not a
step was run. This has obviously not been beneficial to the remaining
race plans for the year, nor my patience.
The injury still requires regular medical attention for which I continue to
feel grateful and somewhat guilty. I feel sure that the nurses could
spend their time better on more pressing concerns. I am also aware that
just this three weeks of layoff has seen some interesting changes in my heart
rate. My Resting Heart Rate (RHR) has been low for as long as I have paid
any attention to it, but rather than the upper thirties, it now hovers at the
bottom of the thirties. After defending the low RHR for a couple of years
as a by-product of my awesome fitness, even I was a little worried about seeing
the number 30 appear on the screen of a morning.
In the last couple of days, some very short and easy runs have come
back. A five miles here and three more there. Interestingly, the
RHR on the following morning looks to be a little more normal based on my
personal experience. 38 is great, right? In addition, those two
runs saw my heart rate spike on a couple of occasions to levels not warranted
by the effort that I was putting in. I know that people think that
running by heart rate can be limiting, and I agree at a certain level, but I
also know where I expect my BPM to sit for a certain level of effort. I
can also feel my heart rate move before the watch registers it due to the lag
in monitoring. So when the heart rate jumps by 70-80 BPH in a couple of
yards and sits there until I stop running altogether, I am pretty sure that
this is not normal.
It will be interesting to see this figures settle down over the next couple
of weeks, hopefully. It is also interesting to have seen how a few weeks
layoff, a few weeks of infection and a couple of weeks of medical remediation
has make a mess of the body.
Onwards and upwards.
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