cheryl

I have to back off running a little until I get my thyroid under control.  If I run too hard, I feel very sick at the end.  So today I went to the Rec Center about 7:30 and ran for 30 easy minutes on their track.  I worked on my "new" technique, which takes pressure off the hamstrings, and had an enjoyable run.  I then did about 6 minutes on the stair climber. Later at home, I did 30 minutes on the stationary bike.  I'm just trying to maintain right now until things are better, then I can hit the training for whatever I'm training for this summer.

I didn't go to my group today, but I did miss them terribly.  Reading all their blogs, I really missed running those hills.   It's hard for me to miss a group day, but I think if I had run those hills, I would have felt very sick at the end.  The good thing is that there's always next time.

What I did, I went to the Rec Center again and ran an easy 30 minutes on the track.  I kept a record of my splits, and I averaged about 47 seconds per lap.  The best thing is, I wasn't sore and miserable at the end.  I'm enjoying running more now that I feel I'm running more correctly and not with so much tightness.  I wanted to go to yoga, but I looked in the class, and it was packed.  I don't think there would have been room for me, so instead, I did 10 minutes on the stair climber, then went home and did some stretching and core work.  Tonight, I plan to play some basketball. 

Too lazy to get up early for the Rec Center, and since my 9 year old is off track and I don't like to leave him alone, I was stuck with treadmill and indoor biking stuff today.  I used to like the treadmill to run, but now that my chiro has shown me better running technique, I don't know if I can run correctly on a treadmill.  I need to work on it.  So I mainly walked, and threw in a little running in the middle.  I spent 32 minutes on the treadmill, then turned to the bike and spent about 30 minutes on it.

I missed the group again because of my thyroid issues, but I did get up fairly early and make it to the Rec Center at 7:30, and ran 4 miles.  I tried to keep things fairly easy, but you know how it goes, you start watching the watch and end up running faster than maybe you should.  I paid for it at the end, because I felt sick for a few minutes, then was fine.  I was pretty happy with my splits considering everything.  I'm going off ten laps being a mile, but maybe it's a little short.  Anyway, the splits were 8:59, 8:10, 7:50 and 8:09.

Today was a bit of a repeat of yesterday.  I once again ran on the Rec Center's track.  I tried not to look at my watch too much and just hit my watch every 10th lap, which is supposed to be about a mile.  My splits today were:  8:42; 8:00; 7:39; 7:43.  I basically enjoyed the run, it was fairly easy.  I did practice running fast one lap, slower the next.  That helps keep it interesting.

Boy, I am getting a little lazy these days.  I thought about getting up and meeting with either Cheris' or Kelli's group, but I just couldn't do it.  I ended up running about 11am on the canal roads mainly.  I did run into Nancy Russell along the way.  She was basically just starting as I was finishing, but we had a nice little chat for a few minutes any way.  I noticed how she looked so relaxed as she was running.  I need to work on that more.  I did the 5 miles in a 9:07 average pace, which, all things considered, I am happy with.