Old Man Still running

Three with the dog.   Went out on the lake.  Clear path out there from Eagle Park again.  The snow is pretty deep, deepest I have ever seen out there.  No fun for running.

Hamstring sore from yesterday, but no new damage.   Its time to concentrate on training for the next series of races, Buffalo Run, Northcoast 24, and Salt Flats 100.  Smart training for these are still all about the flats.   I'll throw in some hills for strength, but all are very flat.  I'll back off the tempo run training for awhile to let the hamstring heal.  Salt Flats is just a week after NC24, so if I really do it, it will just be a slow 100-mile fun run.  There is a pretty good chance I won't do it.   After that, a month later is Bryce 100.  For that, need hill training, but it really is all about altitude training since much of it is above 9,000 feet.  Getting up to 7-8000 feet won't cut it. That is going to be really tough that early in the season.  Two-three weeks of altitude training needed before the race or my stomach will shut down.  Need to spend time at 9-10,000 feet somehow.  

I may throw in a Grand Canyon run two weeks after Buffalo, we shall see.

Slow healing hamstring.  I've been reading plenty of posts by people with chronic problems.   Mine has always healed within a couple weeks.  Its been a little over two weeks.  Rest does bring the pain down but full running again brings it back. No pain doing other cross training, just the running motion does. I'll just have to be patient and careful.I don't think this is a big injury, but I don't want it to be chronic.  I'm just getting old and it take longer to heal up.

Four mile test run on the treadmill at 9:30 pace.  Went well.  Hamstring pain still there but not terrible.  I'll go ahead and run 50K tomorrow, adventure run at the Wedge, and see if it works itself out.  Sometimes that is all it takes.

Went to Little Grand Canyon in San Rafael Swell with jun and others.  It was great to be out in the beautiful desert again.  It was much better than fighting the crowds at Moab Redhot.  There was too much snow to run the Good Water trail as we hoped, but we just ran where we could and did even did some rough workouts running in deep snow.  It was a wonderful day.  Pictures and videos on Facebook.

I had hoped that my hamstring would calm down with a longer run, but it really didn't.  I can run, but I know it isn't helping it heal.  So I will likely go into full cross-training mode for a couple weeks or more until this thing heals.