faster with age

     Made the 8 hour drive home from Las Vegas. Drove through a lot of rain, hail, and snow.

     Took another day off from running

     PM 45 minutes eliptical

     I wanted to do a bike ride but in the morning it was 20 deg. with high winds. I don't mind the 20 deg but the wind made it hard to get motivated. Later in the day the wind died down but I couldn't find the time during daylight so I opted for the eliptical again but it broke after a little over 10 minutes so I guess this turned into another rest day.

     Another day of no running. I did a 20 mile mt bike ride. It was 22 deg with a light snow falling and no wind. I was suprise that the gravel roads weren't snow packed after recieving 7 inches of snow monday morning.

     I've gained 9 pounds in the 3 weeks since Painter's while I haven't been running. My eating while on vacation contributed a lot to that. I guess until I can run again I'm going to have to start getting more serious about my cross training again.

     Played basketball last night. We only had one sub so I was in pretty much the whole game. Tried to run the court hard and keep moving to get a good workout. I don't get any problems from the IT band doing this.

     I went 15 miles on the mt. bike late morning. It had warmed to 25 deg with sun and no wind. Nice day. Some of the mud was begining to thaw though with the sun on it even though it was below freezing. It has been a week since my last attempt at a run and I think I'll try a short one tommorow and see what happens.

     It was a whole 1 deg this morning. I went for a run. It's been 1 week since my last run of 1.5 miles and almost 4 weeks since Painter's. Since I seem to be able to play basketball  for an hour without the slightest ITB pain [even 4 days after the injury]. I decided to try the Jeff Galloway walk break thing and see if I could get more than a mile and a half. I ran 3 min. and walked 1 min. After making it 3 miles with zero pain I decided I would quit at 4 miles. I got to about 3.75 and started to get an ever so slight pain starting and as tempting as it was to finish off the run I quit right there and walked the rest of the way before finding out if it would get any worse. It felt good to nearly triple what I could do on my last few attempts. Pace including walking was 9:18.

     PM 45 min. eliptical

     20 mile bike ride in a couple inches of snow. A light snow was still falling and  made for a nice ride.  10 min. eliptical.