Finally!! First run in over a month that felt good all the way through. Started easy to test things a bit, and slowly wound it up to just a notch over easy pace through the run. Give it an easy-moderate on the flater sections, a little more toward moderate effort on the hills, took the downhills very easy as that seems to bug my hip, which happy to say was the only thing with any amount of discomfort at all tonight. Calf/achilles was pain free all the way through! If A.R.T. is vodoo ASTYM is some kind of witchcraft. The hip thing is improving quickly, as I think it was tied to a poor stride trying to favor the sore heel. A little rolling with a baseball after a run and it mellows right out. Still going to be on the easy/light program for another week or so at least.
7.65 miles at an 8:06 average pace with 940 vert. easy/moderate pace. BST, BF loops, BST out-n-back to the waterfall cutoff to the pond trail.
Really wish I was going to run across the Big Ditch with the 10 or so Ogden runners headed down there tomorrow.
Another quick note to myself. Running again in the clod hoppers seems to help with the achilles, blaming flat shoes for part of the problem. Running in clod hoppers with a heel wedge sucks, as they are at least a pound each and really make it hard not to heal strike, which bugs my knee. Love the flatter shoes, don't like what they do to my calf/achilles. Need options. | 