Chug-along-chica!

Night run with Christine.  Ave. Pace 9:54...watching for signs of strain on my lower leg really carefully.  I have my first half marathon ever in less than 2 weeks and I really don't want to be MIA! 

So my leg felt really good for 2 miles, but then I started to feel it a little.   Forgive me while I delve a little deeper than is interesting to read about (never stopped Charles Dickens!)...  Somewhere around 2 miles I first started to feel a twinge in my right hip.  At the time I really got the feeling that it was coming from my lower back.  After another .25 or so, I started to feel tension running down my leg--the whole leg, from my hip to the bottom of my foot.  Within another half mile the discomfort had kind of localized in my shin muscle.  So I had to slow down a lot that last mile for this thing, but I am filled with hope that the root of the problem can be fixed by my chiropractor.  I have twice had a hip pain that completely subsided after getting a really great adjustment by my chiro.  I'll go in tomorrow and hopefully come out all better!  At least that is MY plan!

I'll probably only run 3 again tomorrow even if I'm feeling good, but by the end of the week, I might do a 5 and a 6-8 miler.  One thing is certain...Painter's is going to kick my butt!!! Everybody needs a good butt kicking every once in a while, though.  It makes you feel alive!  Well, more like it makes you feel dead, so you can appreciate it when you finally come back to life a week or so later.

Nice run in the evening with Christine.  She was very sweet about letting me walk half a mile first to warm up, then run excruciatingly slow for 1.3 miles, then walk another .6 of a mile or so.  She really is a good friend.   Looking forward to getting out there again tonight.  I am so grateful for the good examples of people who have handled injuries so well and continued working out and blogging like Paul, Cody, Scott Zincone, Clay, & Sarah.  It's going to be a good day.

1.4 walking the dog.  Then 1.4 jogging sssslowly.  No pain other than a little bit of tightness in the hip/glut area.   Thanks to everyone for all the input on injuries and suggestions!  I think I am going to avoid a huge injury here.  Things are looking up!

3 miles outside at 12+ pace, at Sasha's request.  You all know how much I revere Sasha's advice.  Well I am grateful for his advice and that's a fact.  Felt really good.--another encouraging run.  My knee started to feel just a little weird around 2.2 miles so I walked a while and continued again.

Tomorrow I am going to attempt to do 6-8 reeeeeeallly slow miles.  If it works out, I will plan on running the Painter's half as a training run.  If it turns out to be too much, I will plan on....going down to St. George, eating Steve Hoopers food, mooching free room and board off Logan's parents, giving Sasha flack in person, and ...you know what would be the BEST thing ever?  If I can't run the half, I would LOVE to pace somebody for the 5K.  The catch is that you must be slower than me.  I'm pretty sure I should be able to do at least 9 min. miles for a 5K, if needed.  But of course anything slower than that is just plain fabulous as well.

 Ug.  I am so tired from all the housework I did today.  I borrowed my friend's steam cleaning machine and basically steamed my whole house--refridgerator, oven, dining room chairs, grout, walls and base boards, window sill tracks (which was DISGUSTING because I never do it--were're talking about a desicated insect mosoleum here!).  In conclusion...zzzzzzzzzz

 

10 miles outside without fueling (which is a first). Very very easy pace. 1:59 for the whole run. Only the 4th time in my life I've ever put up double digits in one day. Don't know how some of you do this everyday... I can never think of anything interesting to say after these long runs--all the blood is in my legs. My mind is getting simplified by the mileage, I guess. :) .

Anyway, you all know what this run means,,,,

Painter's Half Marathon or BUST!!!

And long live the blog!