Going With The Flow

AM - 3.2 miles with Jake on his way to meet the group. Slush mess outside! 

PM - 3 miles with Jake. 

AM - 2.5 miles easy. Pretty happy to have run 40 miles last week! It's been 6 months since I've been able to run that much. 

PM - Weights and strength training at lunch for 45 minutes. Spent 50 minutes in a hyperbaric chamber then proceeded to run a superhero-like 2.5 miles afterwards. 

Interesting review of studies on Exercise and School Performance.

"A single 20 minute session of brisk treadmill walking improves academic performance in pre-adolescent children especially reading comprehension."

AM - Met up with Allie for a run around Sugarhouse, 4.6 miles around 7:30 pace. Felt really good today.

PM - Jake begged me to run with him this afternoon so 2.4 miles easy. 

It might be worth buying all vitamins with a USP certification b/c of no FDA regulations - Vitamin D Supplement Labels May be Misleading .

AM - 2 miles. 

PM - 2 miles with Jake. 

I'm giving up injuries for Lent!!

AM - 2.2 miles with Jake. Then I did gait analysis at physcial therapy (ran at least 1.3 miles during this at 7 min pace). Results - not good. I'll post pictures/video when I get it. The jist of it is -

1) upper body is too upright, need to lean forward more
2) lots of pelvic movement when I'm running especially with the right side, need to work on the gluteus medius muscle
3) not enough hip extension, need to work on hip flexibility
4) knee moves valgus on impact probably related with the overactive hamstring and gluteus medius, need to roll out hamstrings

It all makes sense, but it's kind of depressing. I still have a long way to go. I probably shouldn't be running much right now while I'm working on improving form...I might try doing more cycling and uphill walking. I have to get these problems fixed or I'll stay in this injury cycle forever so I'm glad I have some direction on what needs to change. This approach is going to work, I have a feeling :)

PM - 20 minutes walking at 8% 4.0mph.

AM - 2.5 miles easy. 

I'm heading to Juiz de Fora, Brazil tomorrow for work and will be there for the next two weeks.

Upside - Weather is awesome with highs 85 lows 65.

Downside - I can't go outside by myself b/c it's dangerous, I can't speak Portuguese, and who's going to make sure Jake tapers for the marathon??

AM - Ran 3.5 miles with Jake for his warm-up, took a break for a few minutes b/c my psoas and hamstring cramped up, then ran the rest of the way home for 4.5 miles total. Not feeling great this past week...lots of new aches and pains. So I'm planning to take the next two weeks in Brazil easy and maybe do other cross training. 

Afterwards we had a few friends over for breakfast - just what I needed before leaving! :)