Dan Huhn - Season Plan: coming back from shoulder dislocation

Daniel Huhn

Rich-

I submitted by race schedule to you in early Jan for help in season planning.  At the time I had just dislocated my shoulder on the ice coaching my son's hockey team (yeh, it hurt just a little bit) and you said to hold off on season planning until I was at approx. 90%.  Well I'm at that point.  Been through a lot of physical therapy and been cleared by the doctor to return to normal activity. The shoulder pain associated with running and biking has gotten much better in the past week.  I realize I missed a lot of the Off Season program, but I'm ready to get back to training. 

 

Do you still have my season race schedule that I submitted or do you need another one submitted.  My main concern is the Flying Pig Half Marathon on May4th.  My long run to date has been 4 miles. 

 

Thanks,

Dan

Coach Rich

Posted By Dan Huhn on 25 Feb 2014 07:40 PM

Rich-

I submitted by race schedule to you in early Jan for help in season planning.  At the time I had just dislocated my shoulder on the ice coaching my son's hockey team (yeh, it hurt just a little bit) and you said to hold off on season planning until I was at approx. 90%.  Well I'm at that point.  Been through a lot of physical therapy and been cleared by the doctor to return to normal activity. The shoulder pain associated with running and biking has gotten much better in the past week.  I realize I missed a lot of the Off Season program, but I'm ready to get back to training. 

 

Do you still have my season race schedule that I submitted or do you need another one submitted.  My main concern is the Flying Pig Half Marathon on May4th.  My long run to date has been 4 miles. 

 

Thanks,

Dan

Hey Dan,

Good to see the shoulder is coming back. I had shoulder surgery in Jan '12 and it takes a while to get back to 100%. Please submit another Season Planning Survey (under the Training tab above) so I can get everything I need to do this for you. Thanks!

Daniel Huhn

Rich-
My end of season racing schedule has changed. I'm no longer doing USAT Age Group Nationals in Aug, but signed up for the USAT Aquabike on Sept 7th as part of the Rev3 Cedar Point 70.3 event. Thought about doing the full 70.3 distance, but my surgically repaired knee is not ready for another 70.3. That's also part of the reason I'm not doing Age Group Nationals. It will probably need to get it scoped in the fall, but until then I'm doing what I can.

I loaded up the Half Ironman plan accordingly, but my question relates to the run workouts. Should I still do the run workouts (as best I can) or are there other options for additional swim/bike workouts? Wanted to get your thoughts.

Thanks,
Dan

Coach Rich

Posted By Dan Huhn on 24 Jul 2014 03:22 PM


Rich-

My end of season racing schedule has changed. I'm no longer doing USAT Age Group Nationals in Aug, but signed up for the USAT Aquabike on Sept 7th as part of the Rev3 Cedar Point 70.3 event. Thought about doing the full 70.3 distance, but my surgically repaired knee is not ready for another 70.3. That's also part of the reason I'm not doing Age Group Nationals. It will probably need to get it scoped in the fall, but until then I'm doing what I can.



I loaded up the Half Ironman plan accordingly, but my question relates to the run workouts. Should I still do the run workouts (as best I can) or are there other options for additional swim/bike workouts? Wanted to get your thoughts.



Thanks,

Dan

Hi Dan,

No, you should definitely not follow the run workouts in the plan of your knee isn't ready for it. Notes:

• Do the scheduled bikes and swims in the plan
• "Just run" 3-4x/wk. 3x would be great. 4x would be awesome. 
• Dial in whatever volume and intensity on the runs allows you to do ^this.^
• If 3-4x/wk isn't happening, drop the runs altogether. IOW, you need to think the long game here, especially since your formal run/racing is done for the season? So healing up your knee 100% definitely takes priority over maintaining your run fitness at this point.