AM: (9 miles, 1:18:55). Ran with Dean ... we went to the community college (where the track is) and ran on the trails there. It is so nice - good amount of hills, for the most part the footing is good. What a nice morning. I do have to say, Dean is getting in shape pretty quickly. He was injured for most of this year, but was able to run about 4 mile/day about 4-5 days/week. Greg told me after my marathon that as long as you run 4-5 days/week you can "maintain" baseline fitness -- I think that our micro-experiment with Dean has born that out. For the past month Dean has been building back to about 6 days/week - maybe 50 miles or so and I think the number of days we can run together is numbered. Even though he was trying hard to keep it easy, it was still obvious that he was struggling to keep at my pace. I am hopeful that maybe he can race sometime either late this summer or early fall ...
PM: (3.5 miles easy).
We are on our way to Phoenix to see our ART therapist ... I am having some problems with my hip and hamstring ...I need to nip this in the bud!
Have a great day bloggers -- I hope you all had sucessful and fun races today especially our Carolyn in Colorado!
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