Recovering from injury and signed up for CCC- enough time?
Hi everyone.
So Feb 7 I did a local event with 9500 feet of frozen downhill and immediately after could not bend my knee. MRI shows serious patellar tendonitis. My activity has been extremely limited the past 11 weeks as even biking has not been tolerated, so I’ve only been able to do about 1-2 hours cross training a week without flaring it. This week will be my first 1.5 hours biking with elevation, it’ll probably be hard. Fast forward through lots of PT, and yesterday I started a 4 week return to run that caps with 45 minutes sustained flat running.
So I’m signed up for CCC, and really really really want to show up for and healthy. My PT thinks I’ll be fine but as an injury prone runner, I cant get it out of my head that starting to rebuild my fitness and base in May just won’t leave me with enough time to show up prepared. I really wanted to use this race to truly see what I could do. I have the option to defer as I direct qualified. I work with a coach, who thinks I could make it to the start line if we take most of the intensity of this block. I’m the last three years I’ve run two other 100ks and several 50ks, so I have some fitness hopefully stored away. I’m sourcing what people think- the race is 17 weeks away- is that enough time or should I defer to when I can really show up with a solid spring and a full block executed?