Brooke's Baby

After a very long 19 miler yesterday I spent the day hiking. It felt great to be out in the mountains and probably was a good idea to rest my body after doing a very long run. I had never run 19 before, and that was a much longer one than I was planning, so the hiking was probably a nice break. I actually did not feel sore today which is good news and means that I am doing something right

Crazy Mondays... don't think I will have time to squeeze in a run today. I will be busy with work all day and have dance this evening. However, I will definitely get out tomorrow.

1.5 mile warmup including 4X100 strides, 800, 1200, 800, 800, 1200, "magic 800", 2 mile cool down  with 200 rest jog between intervals

Times:         2:47, 4:15, 2:47, 2:49, 4:25, "magic 800"

I have been feeling a little tendonitis pain in my knee since running that 19 miles which makes warming up not too comfortable. Any hints on how to help that go away other than taking advil/aspirin?

Also rowed for about 2 hours today.. great way to relax on the water and get some upper body work in. It was a nice sunny day and I knew I had to take advantage.

knee was still swollen so decided not to run today. Did a nice swim workout instead and dance class.

Warm up (repeat 2 times)
•	2 x 100yd Freestyle Swim (kick every 4th 25yd), rest 0:20 / 100yd
•	1 x 100yd Backstroke Swim (Kick every 4th 25yd), rest 0:20 / 100yd
Build up (repeat 2 times)
•	1 x 100yd Zipper, rest 0:15 / 100yd
•	2 x 100yd Freestyle Push & Glide, rest 0:15 / 100yd
•	4 x 50yd Breaststroke DPS, rest 0:10 / 50yd
Core (repeat 4 times)
•	5 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:20 / 100yd
•	Rest 0:30 seconds

Knee was feeling much better, but I decided to rest it another day before running. Im thinking it is just bursitis, because it is stiff when I start to warm up, but once I start moving the pain/ soreness goes away.  Warm up (repeat 6 times)
•	1 x 50yd Freestyle Swim (even pace), rest 0:15 / 50yd
•	1 x 50yd Breaststroke Swim (even pace), rest 0:15 / 50yd
Build up (repeat 2 times)
•	4 x 50yd Breaststroke, 2 kicks, 1 arm stroke, rest 0:10 / 50yd
•	1 x 100yd Breaststroke Stretch & Glide, rest 0:15 / 100yd
•	2 x 100yd Breaststroke DPS, rest 0:15 / 100yd
Core
•	6 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:25 / 100yd
•	5 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:20 / 100yd
•	4 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:15 / 100yd
•	3 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:05 / 100yd
•	2 x 100yd Freestyle Swim, target time 01:46 / 100yd, rest 0:10 / 100yd   Also thanks for all the comments about college running. Part of me would love to try to run at college. I would like to see how much I can improve with training and have been really enjoying running. However, I have not heard great things about the track program at my college and it seems like most of the distance runners are always injured. I would still be willing to try competing, but it has been made very clear that if I ran track in college that I would have to pay for my entire college education myself. It would be almost impossible to work enough to pay for school, run on the team and do my school work, I dont think I have much of a choice :( Is there some other way I could compete in track somehow?

8 miles at a 6:45 pace. The knee felt good once I got going. Good news that I am getting better every day. 

Easy run between 9 and 10 miles in 69 minutes. Mile splits: 7:52, 6:56, 7:44 (longer than a mile) , 7:10, 7:10, 8:17 (also longer than a mile), 7:32, 7:41, 9:20(longer than a mile). Knee was feeling sore towards the end so I started to slow down. However, it has been feeling better as the days go by, and the swelling has gone down.