Yesterday I was planning on either not running today or doing something very short and light. However, my PT said try and get back into your normal routine, which would be 8, so that's what I did today. I went to the Y and did a good warm up on the arc trainer and rower, then did some stretching. As a little bit of a compromise, I decided to do half on the treadmill and half outside. I got on the treadmill and it only took a half mile before it did not hurt. Did 4 miles in 34:30. One of the miles was at 7:53 to see what it would be like.
Then I headed outside, first mile was a little bit slower then I got back into an almost normal pace with a very slight pickup at the end. Just over 4 miles at 8:45 pace. As I was running it occurred to me what one of my main problems is with running around neighborhoods. I couldn't think of it before because I knew I was frequently varying my route so that wasn't the problem. But, the problem is that when running on a road, and running against traffic like you are supposed to do, the left leg is always on the edge of the road. When I see a car coming I always move over as far to the left as possible which means running with one leg in the gutter. This may not be my only problem but it really must have been aggravating things. Went back inside did some cool down and more stretching. So far so good. I'm starting to get some more cautious optimism :)
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