Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

3 Miles tonight, very slow and easy.  Felt pain the entire run, but tolerable if I don't make it any worse.  I'm just planning on running 3 miles every other day to see how it goes and bike on the other days.  The doctor has ordered an MRI on my hip on Friday and it will take a week for results for some reason.  That will be the day before the Ogden Marathon, but I won't be running.  Maybe I'll be able to go up and run the first few miles since it is also a relay and they have transportation back to Ogden for all the relay runners.  We'll see.

3.8 miles in 34 minutes.  My 3 miler turned out to be longer than I thought, but it was still rather slow.  Felt about like Monday night, perhaps a little better.  Biked 9 miles on the stationary yesterday, will do the same tomorrow morning.  Nice night for a run.  70 degrees at 6:30 p.m., which actually felt too warm.  I'm becoming an evening runner because I feel worse in the morning and think it not best to run early for now.  Ragnar Wasatch Back team meeting is next week.  I found an alternate to run for me, but I should know in another week or two if I will be ready to go, also depending on the MRI on Friday.  Somewhat encouraged, but still far from being pain free on the run.

Home today from work.  MRI scheduled for this afternoon.  Ran 4 miles to the top of Little Mountain and back.  Fairly easy running on soft ground.  Felt fair.  At least I'm back running, but still with some pain.

5 miles today at 9:30 a.m. on my standard morning route.  How's that for a long run?  But at least I made it and for 2 consecutive days. 45:04, much faster than I thought I was going, so I'm calling it fast miles.  Hip and backl were all over the place today.  Feels fairly good going uphill.  Then downhill on the gravel road stretch not bad until and hit the paved downhill and then some pain.  I jumped up onto the grass park strip at Loma Vista for a while.  Met Liz coming back from her 11 miler.  I was at mile 4 and so we stopped to chat for about 5 minutes.  Alot of pain when I started back up coming down and then all of a sudden it loosened up and most of the last mile I felt great.  15+ miles running this week and about 27 on the stationary bike.  Ogden Marathon next week.  I plan on running the first 7 miles and dropping out for a DNF.  It will be a good course to do that because of the busses for the relay that I can hop on to get back to Ogden.  The weather is looking decent for next week.