Little Buddha

Went to the chiropractor yesterday and got a good adjustment again. Last week he identified the problem as a strain of the sacroiliac joint. He said the problem is mainly coming from having a really weak right leg and ankle, which makes a lot of sense since that is the ankle I had injured so many times. Anyway, after the session today, he said there was a lot of good movement and the hip wasn't as tight as last week. In fact he said, I should be fine to get back to some easy running. What I really need to do is improve my stretching and start lifting some weights to improve my strength.

I've also decided to go back to the logging template that logs shoes

Trainer 1- Asics Cumulus

Trainer 2- Asics DS Trainer

Trainer 3- Asics Nimbus- 361 miles, I'll probably retire these around 400 miles. 

Racer- Asics Speedstar

Played basketball this morning for 40 minutes, didn't move too fast, but trying to get a little movement back in my legs and hips. I'm going to try to run a few easy miles tonight after work. Went and did 2 easy miles up to the fire hydrant and back home 7:45 average pace, then did 1.5 miles on the grass field at the church next to my house. I was trying to determine if it would be a very good place to ever do some speed work. It is nice that it is on grass, but my overall assessment was not that great, I think the footing isn't the best, and some of the corners would be a little tight to turn. I'm going to go and ran around a few more places in Hurricane later in the week. Since I've lived down here I've mainly done speed workouts on the Hurricane track, but running on the track gets kind of old. When I lived in Colorado, we had a great complex with quite a few soccer fields which made it nice to run repeat 800s and 1600s on the grass.

DS Trainer-159

Club run tonight from the store down through Sunbrook golf course, then back on Sunset. I didn't feel too bad starting out and the first 4.5 miles went pretty good. However, I struggled the last 3 miles. My hip started to really tighten up running up Sunset, Bill was kind enough and ran with me tonight. I had to stop and walk for a few minutes, but I was able to stretch out the hip a little and started up again. Average pace was 8:20, like I said the first 5 miles we were well under 8:00 min pace and not feeling too bad, just taking it easy, but then stopping and walking messed up our overall pace.

I ran in my Nimbus- 369 and used the Superfeet inserts which felt ok.

Ran from my house out to the Intermediate School, 4 miles average 8:20 didn't feel that good, hip was still sore, but not as bad, I was feeling kind of light headed and maybe a bit dehydrated. Anyway, I worked out in my classroom for awhile and was going to run back home, but didn't feel too good, so I had Sunny come and pick me up.

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