Wasn't sure about today. Wanted to run but my easy 2 ish the night before wan't promising for the hip pain. By about 10 o'clock I couldn't take it anymore and laced up, intending to go with how I felt, any real pain and I would quit, but planned a maximum of 4-5 miles.
I started out really slow, and kept it pretty easy for the first 2-3 miles. At my planned turn around I was feelng fine and kept going outbound, up toward head hunter. Took the high trail to the bench and felt great on the climb. As I turned and headed down on the low trail I was running very conservative, trying not to tweak anything. Finally I just let loose and rolled with the descent. Funny, it felt better that way than running easy.
Encouraged, I actually did 5 laps around head hunter. High trail up, low trail down. Hit BST on the way back and I upped the pace to a solid tempo effort for a couple of miles and felt fine, a little tweak and some tighness now and then, but no real issue.
Right hand turn and headed up Malan's. Again, felt great on the climb. The last two Saturday's my ITB has really gotten tight at this point, especially as soon as I start down Malan's. I turned around a the overlook and waited for the bomb to go off in my knee. No real issue. I ran hard all the way back to the car. While not a 100%, it was much better than last week and 90% better than 3 weeks ago. Still on the easy plan for at least another week, just to be sure.
Interesting tid bit I read here http://torunistolive.blogspot.com
Number of Americans under 2:20 at Boston in 1979: 35!!
Number of Americans under 2:20 this year: 5??
WOW!
12 miles or so, around 2500 vert. | 