 ready car video time we are at the farm and we at home basically we're heading out to my favorite place lately I'll tell you about what where that is in a second just got to get out on the road it's October 2020 it's autumn getting colder and gray today that's okay that rhymed it's gray today that's okay anyway so I am actually heading to the pool swimming pool I've been heading there regularly lately which you would know if you follow me on Strava there's a link in the description I've been doing my training there lately in the form of swimming and aqua jogging okay aqua jogging is when you have a flotation belt on have it here actually and you float and then you you you do the running motion basically while floating across the pool so it's a great way to cross train for runners so the question of course then is why am I cross training well I am injured I have been for a little while now and I have to take some time off running the short story is basically you know I I know what I did wrong I look back at my training log that's one of the benefits of having a training log by the way I look back at my training log at Strava and I can see exactly what I did that led to this injury I you know I had a break over the winter and starting to come back this spring it was I was struggling with some Achilles tendon issues and but you know they were persistent but I was able to still run a fair bit so I did a little bit too much too soon I guess which was what caused Achilles issues anyway eventually the Achilles issues went away and I succumbed to the classic over eager syndrome where I was so ready to get into real training after having to hold back to the Achilles issues that I was just too eager to train and I pushed a little bit too hard over a few weeks back in June July July really so basically I and I just just pushing a little bit too hard overall I did two hard workouts with just one day of rest in between and I was not ready for that level of workouts or the intensity I even did run the workout a little bit too fast actually it's very difficult intersection just gonna concentrate gotta fill up the tank to person crossing the street anyway so I struggled with getting back I did those two hard workouts with one day in between it was too much and on the second workout I had to abort actually it was a track work I had to abort it due to pain in my left shin on the side in the sorry the fibula region the bone anyway so the that pain did not go away and it still has not gone away and it's been like three months now it's very persistent it's not super painful but it is persistent and so it's it's just it's very annoying and it sort of feels like and looks like it's probably a bone issue which means that you know there's only one way really to heal bone and that is to back way off your training and if it's really bad if it's an actual stress fracture you got back all the way off and do nothing for a while so I backed off training I haven't run for three weeks I've been cycling and aqua jogging and swimming though I did an x-ray it came back negative nothing there but x-rays are not really great at showing stress reactions in the bone or stress fractures so I'm getting an MRI my physiotherapist is sending me to get an MRI in a couple of weeks so I'll be doing that and hopefully they'll give me some more answers and that'll help me you know decide how I'm gonna approach my training over the next few few weeks because if it is a stress fracture then I just need to back you know I just need to know that okay well this is gonna take six eight twelve weeks you know to get back to real training and if it's not a stress fracture and there's something else going on then well then we can try and figure out what that is and maybe I'm able to train through it but I don't want to take the chance of running through it I did for a while and it just didn't go away and it's still there so I don't want to take any chances I've heard about people having stress fractures for a long time and never allowing it fully to heal and then getting into some serious issues eventually so that being said I am actually enjoying the pool a lot I am I'm enjoying it it's it's fun I am trying a new sport which is swimming I've been working hard at my swimming technique I've been reading I've been watching videos I'm not a good swimmer or maybe I am I'm just never I've never practiced I feel like I've made huge improvements over the over the last couple of weeks of swimming and my main thing is just the breathing you know getting that under control doing the freestyle crawl you know and breathing under up on the side and it's just so technical so many little details that you got to take keep an eye on when you're swimming and it's just a strange medium you know strange place to be in the water to just be under the water with your face and breathing out in the water it's just very very not I'm not used to it so but that's cool because that means I'm improving quickly and I'm learning new things and it's always fun to progress and I'm realizing more and more that you know it's not really about the results of your of whatever endeavor you're doing and so my running it's not really about the results it's about the grind you know it's about the daily process of applying yourself to try and reach your goals and right now my goal is to heal and in and a sub goal is to become better at swimming right and that kind of makes it you know reasonable to think that maybe in the future I'll try it try to do a triathlon like I've always been fascinated by the Iron Man you know who hasn't it's an awesome endurance event and now that I'm starting to get a hang of swimming maybe one day I'll do a triathlon maybe who knows I'm still a big fan of running though most be running is closest to my heart for sure but yeah it's fun and it's also fun to do the aqua jogging I have to say I only done it twice though and I'm doing it for the third time today I guess it's not really that fun but it is for me it's fun to be in the pool I just I just enjoy that environment and it's fun so that's a little bit of an update we don't have to make this video drag on for too long my my life I mean I'm disappointed with the injury for sure running is like the biggest most important part of my life so it's very frustrating for me to have this injury and to be in this situation but it's very common for runners to be in this situation and also I'm learning a lot about myself and my training and you know I've done some huge changes to how I coach myself because I'm self-coach of course and that has its downsides you know doing stupid things like having two hard workouts with just one day in between of rest after just just getting back to running really it's just it was a stupid mistake and so I've started you know taking my coaching more seriously the coaching of myself of course I'm also coaching other athletes and with those I'm I'm definitely I would never make the mistakes that I make with myself with them that's the kind of ironic thing or the stupid thing is that it's very typical for coaches and people athletes are our self-coached to be very careful and accurate with their coaching clients like I am but to when it comes to myself you know I'll be like I can handle it I can do it I because you're too obsessed about the results I'm too obsessed about I need to do this workout because I need to get back on track and there's too much ego and too much emotions involved right so in order to deal with that I've started now having a good routine where I sit down once a week for or twice a week sometimes for an hour or two and actually write a report where I'm sort of talking about myself almost in third person and I'm sort of analyzing my mistakes and write I write down what I can do to get better and I write down some rules you know I'll never again do this kind of mistake and this kind of mistake and I'm trying to sort of get very objective about my own coaching and if you're interested in coaching from me of course I offer customized training plans and coaching subscriptions you can check those out at my website there's a link in the description and so go ahead and check that out yeah as I said I'm disappointed but I'm also very happy at the moment just pursuing this new sport and seeing the change of the season and a lot of things going on in my life right now which are some of them challenging some of them awesome as you know good mix of both which is usually the case right autumn is coming on strong it's really really beautiful right now I guess you can see some of it out the window there right you don't get the best for you because of the lighting but it's there's a lot of yellow quite a lot of orange some red it's really really beautiful now I wish I could be out running you know in this perfect autumn weather autumn is like perfect season for running except for when it rains but I'm going to the pool and I actually enjoy the smell of chlorine because I just I associated with with fun I guess from my childhood just going to pools and being in hotels and swimming pools just it's a good association for me so I like it yes is there anything else to say anything any other updates I don't think so I appreciate you watching this video if you made it this far definitely leave a comment I would love to hear from you what you think have you tried aqua jogging are you a swimmer you have any swimming tips for me as a beginner just leave a comment please I would love to hear from you and check out my website for the for the coaching details wishing you all I'm at the pool now actually it's just around the corner so it's a pretty short short drive and thanks for watching have an awesome day please subscribe of course if you haven't done so already and I will see you in the next video bye