Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

I overdid it today.  I did 5 miles on the treadmill easy this morning in 44:46.  We had snow overnight and icy roads this morning.  It cleared up good.  I set out to do at least 5 miles again tonight, my schedule had 7.  I ended up doing the 7 in 1:03 or about 9 min. pace, but my hip and back have been hurting since Thursday and it really got bad on my way back tonight for the last 4 miles or so.  I may need to take some time off if it isn't feeling better in the morning. 

No running. I've got some hip and/or back pain that got worse after my Monday evening run.  I think I need to rest it and not run for several days.  This feels like the same thing I had in 2000 when I had to miss the marathon and didn't run for about 6 weeks.  Hopefully, I can get back to it sooner than that, or the Ogden Marathon is out.  The good news is we got Rick's release date from Argentina and if fits perfectly with my taper week prior to St. George for the days we're gone picking him up.  I never ran for the whole time when we picked Scott up from Buenos Aires in 2005, so I doubt I'll get much running in.

Still resting.  Not much better yet.

3rd day without running.  Little, if any, improvement.  Have a doctor approintment scheduled for Monday afternoon.  Hope to improve some by then.  Will skip running through the weekend.

Still off

A Saturday morning without a long run.  Seems very strange.  But, I'm feeling slightly improved, so maybe the rest is finally beginning to help.  Hope to be back for some easy running next week after seeing the doc on Monday.