So I cut back last week as promised, and despite my early buffer in the week, I only logged 42 miles. Sunday I cut my long run to 11, which was ok by me since it was 85 degrees! I took the run mile by mile, and at the end felt I easily had another 6 in me, but decided not to push it.
Monday was a rest day and I did lots of stretching. My hammies, quads, butt, were all definitely very tight.
Unsurprisingly, I was a bit skeptical going into last night's track workout. It was also brutally hot - 98 degrees with heat index over 100. Yuck. Thankfully, due to the heat, our coach scaled it back a bit and gave us a little more recovery time. I also made the executive decision to work hard, but not overdo anything. That was a bit of a downer because, of course, I was almost entirely concentrating on "does this feel ok?" ... "is this too fast?" ... "am I going to hurt myself?"
Workout was as follows:
1.1 mile easy warmup (8:52)
4 striders
1 continuous mile with 200 meters faster than 5K; 200 meters jog x 4 (this was part of the extended warmup, so not meant to be overly fast. (50, 50, 51, 45)
5 x 300 meters; 100 meter cool down (1:10, 1:09, 1:05, 1:04, 1:03)
.5 cooldown (8:58)
The mileage was a little lighter tonight and the workouts were overall a little slower. The best news was my butt did not ache at all all and I ended up having a lot of fun! And this morning, everything feels good so I am out to log a nice easy recovery run.
Talked to my coach and he thought it was a good idea to scale back the miles for the next couple of weeks.
Here's hoping I continue on the upswing!
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My "hip thing" kinda turn into piriformis just like last Fall (duh?) and on Monday I tried the stupid $30 trigger point ball that I bought a while ago and, well, don't quote me on this, but I think it worked. Go figure. Of course I think a baseball or tennis ball would probably work just as well.
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