{"id":28711,"date":"2021-08-31T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T11:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/?p=28711"},"modified":"2021-09-18T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:20:01","slug":"the-seventh-week-of-jeffing-half-marathon-training-injury-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/2021\/08\/31\/the-seventh-week-of-jeffing-half-marathon-training-injury-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seventh Week of Jeffing Half Marathon Training: Injury Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is about the injury week (7) of Jeffing Half Marathon Training. I had devised a Jeffing Half Marathon Plan for myself and my teen. For me the aim was to get sub 2 hours, and the teen was to complete his first one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2021\/08\/24\/the-sixth-week-of-jeffing-half-marathon-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">week six<\/a> the pain in my side had got bad. To the point where I cut short a run. Rarely do I take painkillers but this was one of those times. Known for my ability to sleep and sleep, the pain also was keeping me awake. It was not a good idea to run!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Seventh Week<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sports Massages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So week seven was just walking, stretching, using the <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2021\/01\/29\/shakti-mat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shakti mat<\/a> and sleep meditation. Luckily the lady who does my sports massage could fit me in on the Friday. She spent the whole half an hour just on that side. She said I was really tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shakti-mat.jpg?resize=643%2C1024\" alt=\"jeffing half marathon training plan week 7\n\" class=\"wp-image-27930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shakti-mat.jpg?resize=643%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 643w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shakti-mat.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shakti-mat.jpg?resize=768%2C1223&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shakti-mat.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Another massage was booked in for the following Tuesday &#8211; and of course she told me not to run. There was a half marathon happening on the Sunday with The Jolly Jeffers. I knew it was bad because I knew I just couldn\u2019t go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How the Teen was Getting On<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Teen had has also had a whole day of assessments for an apprenticeship which meant we missed strength training. Then he went <a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2018\/08\/15\/stand-up-paddle-boarding-with-inspire-2-adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stand-up paddle boarding<\/a> with his group. He would go for walks but I couldn\u2019t get him to run alone. He did do four days of canoeing as part of his Duke of Edinburgh Gold Expedition though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Rest of the Week<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The rain meant I couldn\u2019t go swimming in the river &#8211; so I missed cross training altogether. There was also lots going on with our eldest. As I say I did do lots of walking though. Then there were the scheduled rest days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?resize=800%2C473\" alt=\"Jeffing half marathon week 7\" class=\"wp-image-28821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?resize=300%2C177&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?resize=768%2C454&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/2021\/09\/01\/the-eight-week-of-jeffing-half-marathon-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">week 8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 7 of jeffing half marathon training plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4699,4777,4014,4561],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=800%2C473&ssl=1","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=800%2C473&ssl=1",800,473,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=300%2C177&ssl=1",300,177,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=768%2C454&ssl=1",768,454,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=800%2C473&ssl=1",800,473,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=800%2C473&ssl=1",800,473,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/raining-a-lot.jpg?fit=800%2C473&ssl=1",800,473,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pinkoddy","author_link":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/author\/pinkoddy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Week 7 of jeffing half marathon training plan","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pepM9j-7t5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28711"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29025,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28711\/revisions\/29025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinkoddy.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}