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40 easy minutes on the bike, lots of stretching, rolling and icing trying to get all the kinks out before starting this next week

Did 4 sets of squats after and then 4 sets of bench press. I eked out 12 reps of 165 pounds on the bench.

I am almost as strong as this guy.

AM:

10 easy with James. Clear skies and kind of chilly, just over 8 min pace

PM:

40 minutes on stationary bike

Ball of my right foot is pretty tender. Likely metatarsalgia or morton's neuroma, based off the symptoms. Maybe just bruised. Plan is to keep doing the tempos, workouts and long runs but all the easier runs will be done on the bike until it improves. Oddly, it hurts more to walk on it then run. I was limping around like an old man today.  

I read The Stranger by Albert Camus yesterday. Absolutely loved it. Wondering how I missed it in all my college philosophy classes.  

Stationary bike workout:

20 min warmup

6x5 min hard intervals and 2 min rest in-between each, would have much rather done mile repeats

20 min cooldown

80 total minutes  and very tired legs. Got a headache right after I ended, maybe dehydrated.

More icing and stretching tonight.  

Little workout at Sugarhouse Park during lunch. Wore my Pegasus because they have lots of forefoot cushion. Probably not ideal for fast running but I'll take what I can get at this point.

Warmed up for 1.5 on the grass perimeter then moved to the inner street of the park and did 2 continuous loops at tempo pace. Good practice for hills. First loop was 8:01 then 7:56, I had another one in me but decided to play it safe and call it a day. Lots of people out, beautiful day. I was able to ditch the shirt and work on the skin cancer :)

Legs felt a little dead from yesterday's bike intervals. Foot hurt a little during the tempo but was fine on the grass. I may be running 10 laps of liberty park for my longer weekly run or 7-8 loops of the sugarhouse perimeter. Should be fun. 

50 min stationary bike before bed 

60 minutes easy-moderate on bike

Jogging on the grass tomorrow to test my foot. After talking to a sports med doctor I'm convinced it is metatarsalgia. Means I need to add foot strengthening exercises into the mix and some ankle exercises. Frustrating, I feel like whenever I get close to actually running a decent amount 60+ a week then something happens. I will beat this.

7.3 miles on the grass/mud fields of the Cottonwood Complex. Foot feels slightly worse after the run. I guess that's to be expected. Felt happy just to be out running though even with a little pain. I've got to figure out the best plan of attack for the next 3 weeks before the 1/2. Probably lots of stationary bike. 

Did a bunch of strength training then 4 easy miles. I'll keep the runs short for a couple more days. Tomorrow the plan is to do something like 45 minutes on the bike then 5-6 miles then 45 more minutes on the bike. Probably an okay substitute for a long run. 

Played golf with my dad and younger bro today.  I shot the highest. Not a good thing when playing golf.  Still lots of fun to spend time with the fam.