M'kay

Another unscheduled off day to rest my adductors.  Did some stretching for them a couple of times but the hours spent in an airline seat probably didn't help much.

7 miles in 55:31, 7:55/mi, HR 149.  Nighttime run in VA.  Chilly (34F).  Some soreness in my left adductor still but not too bad and it didn't affect my gait.  Felt the effects of the travel, the off days, the off-time, and running on the flats instead of the hills though.....keeping it easy barely had me under an 8 min pace.  More rigorous stretching again today and some easy adductor strengthening exercises that got easier after the first couple.  The real test will be how things feel tomorrow.

12 treadmill miles in 1:32:54, 7:44/mi, HR 158.  Some left adductor soreness to start but faded quickly.  Opted for the softer indoor treadmill surface in some warmer conditions over the cold and rain outside, offset by treadmill boredom....at least the hotel has a TV in the workout center.

7 miles in 57:09, 8:10/mi, HR 148.  Crazy weather....74F this evening.  Ran with a co-worker who wanted to keep an 8:20/mi pace, so we kept things easy.  He sounded like he was fine, I felt labored...go figure.  About 5.5 miles in, the winds went from breezy to stiff gusts and then the skies dumped a river of water on us for the remainder....back at the hotel the weather channel was issuing a warning for thunderstorm with hail and high damaging winds.  Yeah.

2 treadmill miles in ~ 16:00.  Pushed the hill repeats until tomorrow....mostly just tired from travel and not excited about attempting repeats on a treadmill.  Also, give my adductors one more day to recover.

5.2 miles in 42:05, 8:04/mi, HR 153.  Warmup was 15:57, 1.95 mi, 8:09/mi, HR 153. 6 hill repeats (:61, :62, :61, :61, :61, :61).  Cooldown was 9:29, 1.17 mi, 8:07/mi, HR 142, will several stops and starts before I finally started walking back.

Decided to try hill repeats today, but limit them in # (6-8) and time (60 sec versus 90 sec).  Also aimed on a closer hill, in case my adductors game me trouble, and decided I'd bail at the first sign of trouble.  Warmup was okay...a bit tired since I flew back from the East Coast this morning.  First few repeats were fine...a bit slow but I was holding back some to feel things out (in addition to being worn out from travel).  No real pain or discomfort until I hit the top of the hill after #6 and dropped to a jog to head back down the hill that the pain hit.  I punted on the rest and headed back for home but it got worse quickly and I wound up walking about 3/4 miles back to the house to avoid more damage.

Made an appointment for the doc for Feb 10th (closest appointment) and I'll probably head to the chiro this coming week.  I'm probably punting on the races I've got scheduled, including the marathon in April, since I'm headed into my 2nd week of affected training and no end is in sight.  No running this weekend to try to undo what I've done today.