What ever it takes!

Woke up feeling pretty crummy, hip hurt and it feels like I'm coming down with a cold so I decided to just do my scheduled 10 miles on the elliptical trainer.  At the 1 hour reset I noticed Riverton Paul and Adrian (who is training for the Riverton 1/2) on the treadmills 3 rows behind me so I decided to go finish off with them.  Adrian was doing a 4 mile tempo run so I told her I would run with her for part of it.  I ran about 3 miles at her tempo pace and then decided I was feeling good and started doing my own little tempo run, 2 miles at about 6:15 pace.  Now I probably went and screwed up my hip even worse, but my stuffy head feels much better, especially after sitting in the steam room for 20 minutes.

When will I ever learn?????

5 miles in 36:55  7:23 avg pace

My wife is on a Co-ed indoor soccer league, and her team is pretty awful, probably the worst record in the league.  Anyway, I always give her a hard time about how bad her team is and she tells me how hard it is.  So last night they were short some players and needed a sub for their last game and I said I'd like to try it out.  I haven't played soccer since I was 8 years old but I figured I could out run everyone else out there.  So anyway I played, I kind of hogged the field cause I was having so much fun and didn't want to stop running, I'm more of a just keep running type guy and sitting on the side line seemed boring.  It was about how I'd thought it would be, I had the endurance to play the whole time but when ever I got the ball I didn't have much control.  I actually took more shots than anyone else on the team, but the other team had a really good goalie so I didn't make any.  I had a lot of fun, we lost 10 - 1 and this morning when I woke up every injury I've had over the last 5 years were re-exposed.  I could barely walk from the bed to the bathroom and realized that my 14 mile run was probably a bad idea.

So.  32 laps in the pool, followed by lots of weights.  Adductor, and Abductor to help my hip.

Today is going to be difficult, I forgot my wallet, my iPhone, and my TI-85.

Feeling pretty rough still, this cold is just annoying, at least I hope it's just a cold and feeling this achy everywhere isn't normal.   Wanted to get my run in no matter what, I did 10 minutes on the elliptical just to loosen up and then 12 miles in 1:34:00.  The run didn't feel bad after I got going, but I didn't have a whole lot of energy to speed up.

Check out this new shoe,  The Lunargrand Wingtip.

Feeling 100% better than yesterday so it must have just been some bug wiping my out.  I went through 3 treadmills today cause they kept stalling out on me so times and probably distance is estimated a bit but probably close

14 miles in 1:45 7:30 avg pace.

Nice swim this morning, felt really relaxed and the laps seemed to go by really fast.

48 laps in exactly 60 minutes, followed by some weights.

Great run this morning, slow by design.  I ran 4 miles to Ryans house at about a 9:00/mile pace, I was really enjoying running slow on a nice clear cool morning.  Saw about 3 shooting stars and the moon was lighting the dirt trail nicely.   Got to Ryan's and told him I wanted to go slow, he said great.  Apparently my slow is slower than his slow but I just stayed with him, it was still an easy pace about 1 min/mile slower than our normal average.  We ran behind Smiths, up to the top of Sun Crest,  I was actually very happy with how easy going up hill seemed and felt that I wasn't in as bad of shape as I'd thought I was.  Coming back down was a different story, even though I could have ran fast I felt like I was going to blow my hip out so I had to take it down and find a nice controlled pace or I new I wouldn't be walking normal the rest of the week.

Ryan ran past his house about 1.5 more miles with me and then turned around, I made the grueling 2 mile climb up to my house alone.  But I was very happy that I had just run 20 miles and still felt I had gas in the tank.  I probably could have gone another slow 5 miles but we've got a busy day in the Rohde Residence today.

21 miles in 2:52:30  8:15 avg pace.  Not to shabby with the slow start and 1000' climb.