What ever it takes!

Despite massaging, icing, and stretching my hamstrings all weekend I woke up incredibly sore still this morning.  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong lately, I've never had hamstring issues before.  Anyway, today called for a 5 mile LT run, I felt like I've just kind of been getting the miles in lately and not getting any quality workouts in so I decided to try and go for it anyway.  Started out slow, did a 5 mile warmup, took a quick water break and then started on the tempo run, the plan was to try and do 5 miles in 30 minutes, start out at 6:10 pace and progressively get faster, things started OK but after the first mile I bumped up the pace and my body just didn't want to respond, I felt like I was going to hurt something, so I just left well enough alone and just ran at that pace.  Last mile a little faster.  Truthfully, I should be able to get into the 5:40 range on an LT run, I'm not sure if today did more damage than good but at least I got through it, based on HR it really was still an LT run so that's good I suppose.

Distance	Time	Split Time	Avg HR
1	8:30	8:30	149
2	16:37	8:07	141
3	24:01	7:24	153
4	31:09	7:09	159
5	37:58	6:49	163
6	44:10	6:11	165
7	50:21	6:11	172
8	56:31	6:10	172
9	1:02:44	6:12	171
10	1:08:43	5:58	172
11	1:17:03	8:21	150
Total	1:17:03	7:00	159
Tempo Total	30:42	6:08	170

 

My wife has a head cold and kept waking me up all night, finally at 3:15 I decided to stop trying to fall asleep and just go to the gym.  I rolled out and stretched before running which I don't normally do, then did about 5 minutes on the elliptical to try and loosen up. Started out running slow, and progressively got a little faster.

15 miles in 1:53:00  7:30 avg pace. 

I've decided I'm getting burned out, I'm tired, my legs hurt, I've developed an eating disorder trying to get back to race weight, which is just driving me nuts.  I've been trying to loose weight since the start of the year, I've lost about 5 lbs but I still want to loose like 15 more.  I know it's not good to train and try to loose that much weight, but I didn't loose it before I started like I'd planned.  So yeah, I'm in the dumps.

I really needed that after all my whining yesterday.  Swimming really is a great cross train, legs feel great afterwards and I really can think better, the rest of the world just kind of disappears when you swim.  I realized that yeah, maybe I'm not in as good of shape as I'd like to be, but who is. Last year at this time I couldn't even run. So I'm not quite sure what my problem was yesterday, maybe a bit sick, maybe just tired.

Anyway, 32 laps in the pool, 20 minutes on the elliptical, and then 30 minutes of random weight machines.

Felt OK this morning, legs felt a little better after a day off of running but this pain in my butt is getting to be a real....  Well you know.  Today was very strange, I've been going to Lifetime fitness for like 7 years now (with a break in between when I moved) but anyway, I get on the same treadmill every morning on the front row and rarely does anyone run next to me, I always figured it was cause I stink.  But today I went through like 3 different sets of people who came up and ran next to me, some of them even talked, one girl told me people didn't run next to me cause it was intimidating.  I'm not that scary.   I thought having people to talk to would make the time go by faster, it didn't. 

Tomorrow Ryan told me he would run 18 miles outside with me, we'll see how that goes.  He's been out on injury leave for months now.

14 miles in 1:41:00 7:12 avg pace.

Pretty awesome run with Ryan and Jeff L this morning.  Ryan has to go to St. George today for Soccer tournaments so we decided to run this morning instead, and since he is the CFO of our company I have a good excuse for being late to work :) 

I decided to just make today my long run since I had people to run with so I went down early and did a 3 mile loop around Thanksgiving point before meeting Jeff and Ryan.  We started out kind of slow, truthfully faster than I though Ryan would be willing to run but slower I guess.  Out through West Lehi out to Utah Lake and back.  Very nice morning, I actually thought the temperature was perfect, not quite cold enough to freeze your sweat.

Pretty happy with the run, I felt really good the entire time.  I was actually suppose to do a 10 mile Tempo mixed in but that's OK, I still got the mileage.  I ran an extra 2 mile out and back alone at the end to finish off my mileage.

Thanks Jeff for meeting us on such late notice, that was a lot of fun.

I felt incredibly good today, I remember back even when I was in better shape than I am now a 19 mile run would have immobilized me for the rest of the weekend but I almost had no soreness this morning. 

8 miles pretty easy followed by 10X speed intervals, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3......13mph.  I have been skipping speed intervals lately cause I felt like they were going pull something but today for some reason they felt good.  I actually had fun doing them.

Britt scheduled us in house massages for Valentines day, This morning (did that make sense) Anyway, she surprised me by have a massage lined up for me this morning at 7:00am right after my run.  It seriously hurt more than any massage I have ever had, but it was great.  I can tell she really worked out some of the kinks I've had for quite a while.  Good massage therapists are amazing how they can find those muscles that you didn't even know were sore.  I was holding back tears a few times.