With the pounding rain on the Twins, I bailed on the thought of doing the Cottonwood Traverse, and instead opted for some "flat" miles that would be better training for my fall events anyways. Turns out my "flat" trail still gave me 2300 vert gain! oh well.
I was planning on running 26-28. I went out and did 7, turned around (thunderheads were rolling in so I wanted to stay closer to the car for the rest) but by mile 9 my IT band was screaming at me. It had hurt off an on pacing last Friday and hurt pretty bad for 1/2 the run on Saturday. Since by the end of Sat's pacing duties it felt better I thought I had "run it off." It had flickered here and there on the road runs but seemed much better. All the vert gain/loss today seemed to make it flare. I thought it'd be smart to just run back.
Once in my car I drove to the dimple dell trail heads twice on my drive home, resolved to just go get the miles I wanted. Then I remembered that my peak weeks start next week and I don't need nagging pains to turn into injury and drove home. Once home it took 2 hours for me to stop being ready to dart back out the door again. I curled my hair so I knew I woldn't go back out in the rain. :) Two years ago I wouldn't ever bail on mileage. Two years ago I got injured much more frequently.
So here's to being lazy, rolling out the ITB, and wishing I was still running... 10:14 AP, not bad for me on muddy trails with decent gain.
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