Hello blogging world, friends, supporters, and family!
With this being my first blog post ever, I will give you a short update on how last season turned out.
Last winter I ran for the University of Alberta and had a great indoor season. I won the 1000m at CIS and was excited for what outdoors was going to bring. I started outdoors well, opening up with a 1:48 and 1:47 in my first two races of the year and then finished 4th again at the Canadian Nationals. After just three events of the year and having good results I was excited to head to the West Coast to hopefully build on my previous success. Unfortunately though at Harry Jerome I got tangled up with a pack of runners and injured the lateral head of my right gastrocnemius. At the time I did not think it was that bad but I soon realized that I had torn part of the muscle. After this I came back to Edmonton to try and recover as much as possible as I had qualified from my previous performances to represent Canada at the FISU (World University Games) in Shenzhen, China. Going into FISU I was feeling a lot better but not 100%. I had my best day of training two days prior to my qualifying heat but the day before my race I aggravated my calf again and thus had to run injured. Coming home from China I committed to completely healing my injury and therefore decided to forego the upcoming CIS season. I took two full months which consisted of just rest and therapy. My third month consisted of water running, cross training and weights before finally running again in late November. From then on I have been slowly increasing my mileage and training intensity each week. Lately training has been going well and my calf is 90% healed. I look forward to what this outdoor season has in store as I feel motivated and more fit each week!
Stay tuned for more posts!
One love,
jaden
