The Next Step

I normally take Sunday off but last week I took off several days off because of some pain in my hip I decided to run today to see how my hip was recovering. I didn't get to do a good test on the hip because I spent all day Sat working around the house and a lot of the work was in awkward positions on the ground so I woke up today sore from that. It was good to get a few miles in and felt good most of the way. Even though I was sore in unusual places my hip felt good. I plan a full week so that will be the real test.

40:30

Today it was colder and crazy windy so I ran on the treadmill. I felt good from the start with a little left over soreness from the weekend projects. I decided to do a progression run and gradually pick up the pace every 1/2 mile. I didn't want to do a full tempo so thought this would be a good way to get the legs turning over without too much stress. I felt good as I continued to up the pace. I worked down to around 6:40 pace for the last 1/2 then did a warmdown. It was a good run and my hip continues to feel good so hopefully that is behind me.

61:49

Another cold and windy day with wind chills around -10 so still on the treadmill. I just did an easy recovery 8 miles today. I didn't feel good at the start. Around 2 miles I felt like stopping but pushed through and then started feeling better around 5 and actually felt good the last 3 miles. Not sure what this was about. Anyway, hip still feels good so all in all a good day.

66:00

I had to squezze in a short run today because of my schedule. Also, I was still on the treadmill since it was snowing this morning and around -10 wind chill. Come on Spring!!

I was feeling good taking it easy on the treadmill so decided to put in some hills to make it more interesting. The first couple were fine and then on the third one I felt the pain in my hip. Now I think I have figured out where that pain came from. I have started doing hill repeats on the treadmill over the last month and could be the reason for the hip problem. Being from Indiana when I run outside it is mostly flat so I am not used to the hills. Could be that I jumped into the hills on the treadmill too fast. I will stict to the flat stuff for a while until I get this hip problem to go away then try a more gradual buildup on the hills.

40:35

I think I am going through a slump. I have not been making running a priority in my schedule and the result has been a big drop in mileage. I have been having a few aches and pains but not to the point that I should be cutting back this much. Today is another example of this I didn't get my run started on schedule and had to cut it real short. Since I didn't have much time I went for quality vs quanity. I did a 2 mile time trail (sort of since I was on a treadmill and the max speed is 6 min miles). I did the first mile around 6:20 then ed it up to 6:00 min pace for the second. It felt good and let me know that the base building is paying off. I just have to get back in the grove and start putting in the miles again. I have a lot of things scheduled travel wise the next few weeks so I am going to have to really push to stay on track. Hopefully I can accomplish that tomorrow.

29:09

Had to squezze another run in on the treadmill today. I had a crazy day at work and my parents are coming up for the weekend so had some projects I had to get finished. I sure hope I can get back on track next week.

40:19