Logging those miles

Every once in awhile I have those long runs that everything seems to not be in my favor. I chose a route that was very shady because already at 8:30 it was 76 with high humidity and rising fast. The  heat was not bad until mile 3.5 where I was on Carmel in the direct sunlight. This then brought on the sweating much faster. Good thing I decided it was a jog bra kind of run. Surprisingly I was not regretting the choice of wearing compression socks. They kept me cool and my legs fresh.

At about mile 4.5 I swallowed a bug, which is always fun. Once I turned onto Sharonview, I came to all the down hill areas. Well this lead to my knees hurting on the outside, signaling the sign for new shoes. I probably needed them about a month ago, but let's be honest what runner actually heeds the exact date their shoes go out? I stretched the Brooks Ravenna 2 pretty far since I got them at the end of February and trained for a half marathon, as well as running a few track practices in them. 

After my realization of new shoes, I came to the last major hill on Colony and I about died. After a month of not going to physical therapy and half doing lunges, squats, and hip exercises, I was definitely wanting to kick myself. My right hip was killing me, and I definitely knew it was all my fault for it hurting. I knew the first thing I was doing this morning was calling Dr. Brad for an appointment. 

After that my hip was hurting so bad, I was having to do a run/walk situation. At mile 8 it was too rough, that I didn't want to keep hurting it and had to train smart. I took a rest day today and have a hill workout and physical therapy to look forward to tomorrow!

Good night everyone!

Marathon training has begun!!!!

Chicago 2011 here I come!

I am finishing up the 4th week of marathon training and it has been going well! I have been getting my training from the fabulous folks of Chicago Endurance Sports and Training Peaks. It has been an adjustment to move run days to monday and friday, and start cross train days to tuesday and thursday. For 3 years now my run days have been tuesday-thursday and then long run on saturday or sunday. So this change has been an adjustment. The week day runs are good because CES does everything by time. Distance is only used for long runs.

I had my first 5k predictor run last wednesday. I ran the 5k in 26-27 min. Time was off due to a watch malfunction at the end. I felt strong and good for it. Granted I was back in Chicago, so the elevation was much flatter, but it was on one of the 90+ degree days, but I ran early enough in the morning,so it was similar to being in Charlotte.

The 7 mile week, I experienced a little hip flexor pain on the left side, which was new for me, but the right side has been doing great. I have attributed that pain to not keeping up with my lunges and squats and no PT for the week. Since then though things have been feeling good.

Looks like things are on track and going well. I have a 6 mile run tomorrow so that should be a nice run for a cutback week! The blog will be updated more frequently so be on the look out for more posts!

Happy running!