Ouch.
I obviously over-cooked the legs yesterday doing all those sub 30 second 200's.
I guess I should have stayed focused on 32-33 second 200's allowing me to do them all with less recovery in between. Because from the stiffness in my hips, groin, and other areas today, I think I was pushing too hard. I don't think its necessary or necessarily the best idea to be running sub 4:00 mile pace when my goal pace is 4:40. I think I just allowed myself to get caught up in the fast splits since I was running with fast dudes who legitimately should be running that fast.
Oh well...I don't think one session is going to injure me as long as I allow myself a number of easy days to fully recover. But I will be more careful next time. I was pretty stiff starting out my run this morning. I loosened up though, and felt decent most of the run after the first couple miles.
1:03 - seven-ish miles pretty flat and slow.
Oh and I crossed paths and ran with a dude named David from Tasmania who was really cool. I learned that he's just here for a couple months doing some altitude training. He reminded me of something of a mohican warrior, covered head to toe in tattoos, wearing virtually a loin cloth and shoes, with a shaved head, and a long dreadlock pony tail coming just off the base of his head. Unique appearance for sure. But ladies, don't let that scare you off, he was a super nice dude, and seems like a pretty stout runner as well. I never know who I'm going to meet when I head out the door to run in Boulder. Though we both spoke a form of English, some of our conversation was a little out of sync, here's an example:
Me: How do you like it here?
David: I miss Tasmania, the Tracks are a lot better mate.
Me: What could be so much better about the tracks there, are they super soft or something?
David: Na mate, a lot more hilly than here.
Me: They make hilly tracks in Tasmania??
Apparently tracks means trails in Tasmania. And apparently the tracks are pretty epic over there. He couldn't stop raving about them. But when I inquired further, I learned that thus far he had not ventured into the foothills above Boulder, but had been sticking to the valley trails. So the jury is still out, because the tracks around here are pretty nice in my opinion.
David said he was running the Freeman Myre 5K tonight. I decided to stop by to check out the last 5 minutes of the race. Jason Hartmann won in 15 flat I believe. David was 5th, somewhere in the 15 minute range. A solid runner indeed. Especially being his first race at altitude possibly ever. Adriana Pirtea won for the ladies in 16:59. Wasn't as fast of a year as last year. Benita Willis won last year in 16:21.
Oh...I guess I didn't need to describe David's look in such detail, since you can judge for yourself as he is racing here in 5th. But he definitely appeared more warrior-esque without his shirt on.
"See you on the tracks mate!"
