Although my quads were still a little tender from the 5k on Saturday, I was anxious to get back out on the track for some speed work. I met up with Natalie at little after 5:30 and we started with a 1 mile warmup. While we were warming up, we chatted about what distances we wanted to do; we decided on 4x200s, 2x400s, 1x800, and another 4x200s. Natalie is a great athlete so it's nice to have her there to make me push myself (too bad Dominique is out for a while -- she's another speed demon).
We started our 200s with a medium effort just to ease into it. It had been 2 weeks since we did speed work (Moab taper the first week and recovery the second). We finished our 200s in around 32-37 seconds. On our last 200, I seemed to have done something to my left hamstring. Whoa! What was that pain all about?! We stopped to stretch for a bit in hopes that the pain would subside -- never fully went away. Walter showed up about that time so we ran another few laps at a casual pace with him while he was warming up. The hamstring started to feel a tiny bit better. Uh-oh, I hope this is something that will heal overnight -- I hate not being invincible!
We ran a 400 (1:--), then an 800 (3:15), followed by another 400 (1:--). I don't remember what the times were. Natalie was in charge of the stopwatch and I was in charge of the total distance. At that point, we decided to call it a night so we ran 1 mile to cool down and stretched for about 15 minutes. We wanted to ease back into things after taking a couple weeks off from speed work.
When I got home, I iced my left ham and put some topical Sore No More on it. Seems that I had a bad reaction to something because I have a big ol' rash on my leg this morning. That'll look really nice at the gym tonight -- maybe I'll wear capris. My ham didn't heal overnight but it's not as sore as I thought it would be either. | 