1:56:08. Confession time, today is the first day off (from work) that I have had in ages ... so, I did not start this run until nearly 12 noon!! I am such a slacker!! Great run. Nice weather, one coyote sighting, and body feels good ... except the residual pain from the treatment yesterday (more on that later). We were in Phoenix all day, between the 2 hour drive, the ART for both of us and the extra 2 hours for Dean's other therapy with a different person we left at 9AM and got home at 7PM. I was able to work a little, and I got some errands run up in Phoenix, so it was all good. I did make Dean pull over a little outside of the area know as "Burt's Hideaway" (aka Queen Creek) so I could get my PM run in. I ran along side an irrigation canal -- very nice. Pretty flat, essentially a dirt road in the middle of nowhere -- well, it was somewhere just nowhere to me -- and not to many people or houses, just a lot of plowed fields, birds, and some tumbleweeds. Dr. John was in rare form yesterday, he found a big knot in my hamstring, it took him and his huge assistant about 5 minutes to work it out, my leg was so sore this morning that I could barely walk when I first got out of bed. I felt it on my run, but it is worse when I am standing, or sitting still. He also scrapped by back and did a number on my foot (my PF is coming back, hopefully not as bad as before). I am sure I will be grateful to him in a couple of days, but right now I think of bad words when I move too quickly.
So, my run today was good, I ran my "flat loop" (it isn't really flat, it is just flatter than the alternatives) and then added on at the end. I ran the last 20` hard -- by my estimates I ran the last 25` @ at least 8:00 effort. Feeling pretty good today. I forgot to tell you last week about my "run in" with the jumping cholla that are all over the trail. They have really long spine and tiny barbs so if they get on you they are really hard to get out -- especially because they are covered in spines -- so if you try to grab them out with, just by way of example, your fingers, they will embed in your finger ... basically what happens (if you don't carry industrial strength tweezers with you - which I don't) is you end up transfering them from leg, to finger, to finger to finger to thumb ... and so on ... and they hurt!! Anyway, I got a couple of them stuck in my calf last week (well they got stuck on my shoe, which brushed against my inner leg, and then my finger, and then .... it wasn't pretty -- I had a long line of what looked like a rash from the barbs) this week I saw a bunch of them, but managed not to pick a single one up ... yea!
Happy Sunday bloggers!
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