44:49. I am feeling so good. Flexibility in my hip and lower back is so much better ... lots of extra time to stretch and the ART therapy has done wonders. One of the things I am planning to work on in the next couple months is getting better leg extension. Because I have problems with my right ankle (my foot points out, both when I run and walk - a function of poor biomechanics and tight hip flexors -- due mostly to the fact that I tore all the ligaments in my ankle when I was 18, it hurt really really bad) my right leg has all sorts of issues and I can't fully extend my leg - and this is why I have problems with PF and my quad. Anyway -- I feel better than have since my last mesocycle of training, and am really looking forward to starting fresh again! I will work on some bounding exercises and am looking for a good way to measure leg extension before and after some strength work ... I was thinking of putting some baking powder on a flat stretch of grass ~ 100 meters long -- and sprinting on it. Then I can measure the distance between strides. I can then do it again in about a month, and again in another month ... to see if the exercises are working. For a good article on hill bounding read this - I prefer to do these on grassy hills, but Dean doesn't think it matters much. Last night I made a new pasta ... it was very light and tasty. I found this recipe in a magazine at the doctors office, luckily I found it online too (since I left the journal article I was reading at the time, on the role of K-Ras mutation and colon cancer ;-), and where I wrote the recipe, at the office!). Anyway - here it is - herbed veggie and artichoke pasta
(I used fresh beans and canned artichoke hearts, in water)
Have a wonderful Sunday bloggers! 22 miles on my bike (to work and back). UPDATE: Wow, biking is fun. I have to say that I could go much faster than I thought I could, but it took a little longer than I had thought it would (54` each way - for a little longer than 11 miles). When I got off the bike my legs were a little rubbery, but cardiovascularly it was generally easier than running. I say generally because uphill and especially uphill into a headwind was much harder than running. And, can you say "ouch", running can cause pain, but man, almost two hours on a bike seat causes very specific and very point tender pain that is hard to describe -- they don't call it saddlesore for 'nuthing.
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