Recovering From Microfracture Surgery

Well, Sasha drug me along on a 5 mile easy but painful run. My quads are pretty torn up and painful the whole run but slowly got better as we went. We averaged about 7:51 for the 5 miles and Sasha was headed out for 5 more. He said he plans on doing his normal tempo run tomorrow. I will not be doing any tempos this week that is for sure. Probably another easy 5 miles tomorrow is all I will be up for. I plan on taking this week easy and then trying to get things going again next week.

Another easy but sore run. However, I am a little less sore today so progress is good. 7 miles for the day at a 7:28 average. Nice and relaxed but quads still hurt throughout.

What really shocks me is Sasha doing his standard 5 mile tempo run this morning and it was like he did not even run a marathon on Saturday. He only ran about 20-30 seconds slower than normal and he was taking it easy. There is something wrong/weird about anyone that can do this so soon after a marathon. Sasha has something strange going on that is for sure. I was telling him that he should take up ultra running as I think he could do very well and possibly be one of the best in the nation. 

Slowly but surely the soreness is fading away. Just a little bit of soreness remaining in the outer quads. Each day has gotten a little better. I think by tomorrow all of the soreness should basically be gone. Ran an easy 8 miles with Sasha at a 7:42 average pace.

10 Miles with Sasha today. Legs are feeling about 90% today which is probably one of my faster recoveries from a marathon. Ran warm-up with Sasha and then he wantedt o do his normal 5 mile tempo again. I did not feel like I am ready to push it quite yet as I do not want to risk an injury as I have been injury prone following psat marathons. However, after warming up I started to gradually pick it up and hit middle 4 miles in 6:49, 6:37, 6:24, and 6:05. Sasha and I then ran cool-down together and ran into a couple of other runners and joined them for the last couple miles. They are both very good runners one being Nick McCombs and the other a local fast tri-athlete. Overall average for the 10 miles was 7:03.

Son James (12) did 3x1 Mile yesterday afternoon with a 400 jog rest in 6:35, 6:34, and 6:15. The last mile was an 11 second PR after running 2 hard miles. He is really starting to show some progress from his consistent 4 easy miles per day for the last 4-5 months. He is a great example of how consistency pays off. What is great is he has run 4 miles a day on his own every day. My goal has been not to push him but just let him go out and run on his own. Now that school is out I will try and run with him at least a couple days a week. I think I will have him start posting on the blog now that school is out as well.

Normal Provo River 10 miler from Sasha's house. Legs still ok. A few minor things lingering but not bad. We averaged 7:05 overall but the first 5 average was about 7:17 and second 5 average was 6:52. Not much else to write about today.

Took my son James up to Magna with Sasha to run the Magna 5K. I did not want to race today but rather help James run a PR in the 5K. It is a fast course and James has really started to run pretty good lately so I expected him to do well. I was thinking a sub 20:00 was possible but I was not sure if he would really run that fast. Took off with James at the start which is the fastest part of the course and we hit the first 1/4 in 1:23 and then settled down into a more comfortable pace for him. He hit the first mile in 5:56 and was looking good. This is a downhill mile but that is the fastest he has ever covered a mile. The second mile starts to flatten out and the last 400 is actually on a slight up. He ran the second mile in 6:22. The third mile is all on a gradual uphill except for one section at about the 3/4 mile mark it goes down for about 150 meters. His third mile was a 6:48 which is pretty good for a mostly uphill mile, this one actually surprised me the most as I expected the hill to slow him down a little more. He finished in 19:45! So he broke the 20:00 mark with room to spare. Not bad for 12 years old and his first year of running. James was pretty excited and he finished strong passing about three people over the last 500 meters. It is one thing to run and race yourself but it is even a greater feeling being able to see your son run so well and be so excited about it. That was the highlight of my running day today.

I ended up running just over 10 miles for the day total. My right hammy, knee and hip are still bothering me a little so I will have to be careful not to push it too hard until they feel better. Feel like crud today as I started coming down with a major cold last night. I am totally congested and miserable this afternoon. Heading out to the range to take the kids shooting. It is fun to get out and shoot every once in a while and destroy some paper targets and clay pidgeons.