2 miles, time??(No watch), 6:30pm Friday night I was itching to get in a run after being completely pain free all day, and my wife was gone so I sent her a text with a picture in my running gear that read "You can't stop me now!"
Almost immediately I felt some twinges in my right foot so changed my stride to a shuffle until reaching the dirt trail around the dike where it would be better to put weight on it. Had a few more uncomfortable steps, but mostly where the trail turned back to asphalt before getting back home. Both legs felt okay, but unaccustomed to running after doing 60 miles of biking since Sunday.
September 22, 2012
2 miles, 18 minutes 10:30 am
2 miles, 17:50 minutes 6:00pm
The road out behind the Renaissance festival in Shakopee is all rock and dirt and seemed like a good idea for the initial jaunts on ramping up mileage again. Today I also decided to alter a couple of things for all runs to prevent further injury, based on the two pains I developed last week. 1)Pronate on my right foot and supinate on the left. This may open up an avenue for more injury shift the weight of each step to another side but has been working so far. 2) Split all runs into to equal, (for now) distance runs of morning and afternoon and allow the body to rest/recover some.
Again, both runs felt extremely sluggish, but are by far more hilly than I'm accustomed to in 2 miles. Then there was the traffic creating dust clouds on both outings that was distracting and really kept me from gaining any focus and I expended a lot of effort as a result. Out of the hundreds of cars creeping along on the narrow weed lined road I did get one drivers encouragement to keep it up, giving me a glimpse of the "crowd engergy" many runners say keeps them going.
September 23, 2012
2 miles, 18:14 minutes 9:30 am
2 miles, 14:46 minutes 7:30pm
Morning traffic at the festival gets diverted to the overflow where I start my run, immediately after opening, I have discovered, as the first cars came through almost right after I departed. Nothing to note expcept the hills are great for training.
On the evening run my legs felt fantastic and easy. So I settled into very smooth gait that felt fast but manageable. I would have loved to do an interval session and slowed down to some 9 minute miles and then ramped it back up again but my form started to feel like it was difficult to maintain and the right foot was disagreeing with the pouding so I cut it short.
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