Artichoke's Running Blog (Ken Spence)

5 easy miles at 5:05 a.m.  1 mile or so with Liz and Roland.  Hamstring still bugging me some today, even with it wrapped.

5 miles at 9:00 a.m. along the double track trails behind Little Mountain.  Beautiful sunny morning.  Very easy running.  Hamstring troublesome at about 3 miles, but shorter, quicker strides helped out a lot.  A bit encouraged today.

4 miles easy at 5:10 a.m.  Skyline route to end of pavement and back.

5 miles untimed at 5:10 a.m.  Standard Skyline Route.  Easy.  Hamstring felt a bit better than yesterday.  Trying not to overstride.

4 miles easy at 5:10 a.m.  53 degrees.  Skyline out and back.  Felt really good for the first 3+ miles and then some more hamstring issues.  This injury may take a while, but I'm just happy to have made it through the marathon and still running.

10 mile run in Settlement Canyon and along the Dark Trail and back with Tina in 1:33:18, 9:19 overall pace.  Encouraging run at first and then discouraging.  Hamstring had some more issues today and really grabbed me at about 7 miles.  I don't know what's going on with it.  Barely made it through the last 2 miles, running pretty slowly.  Glad I have some easy winter base mileage weeks coming up.  Maybe I can get this healed up.  I'd really like to do Snow Canyon 1/2 marathon in a couple of weeks, but it may be just a fun run through the canyon for me.  Boston Marathon registration opens on Monday.  Since I BQ'd at Ogden, we're thinking of going back for one more.  I hear it will fill up fast this year.  I want to have this injury behind me well before then.