This morning I woke up with zero pain in my lower back and hips. It was a miracle after all I did this weekend. Smooth taught me this little change in pelvis position during the last 2 miles of our run on Saturday, and since I have been very careful to hold that posture and think about it. It has been helpful not just to running, but my everyday sitting/walking too. Those long runs become bainful toward the end, because I am holding, and pounding on bad hip positioning and posture. It's such a small change, but made a huge difference to my pain level and recovery. (Well, the chocolate milk really gets some credit). I listened to music on my run, which was novel for me. I got a new phone last week that has this feature called Slacker Radioon it. It's kind of like Pandora.com and groups music you like in a never ending stream--like a personal DJ. That was a fun discovery. Acheiving negative splits was so easy today, I just felt better and better the more I ran. I hated to quit. But have to obey 'recovery' running if I want to keep pain/injury under control in the next 3 weeks before SG. | 