The plan today was to run my warm up to the 21st street pond. Then do three miles at 8mm pace with a .25 rest between. Then run back to my car. I took the auto lap off the garmin so that I could make the laps myself.
My execution of the plan: I ran 1.75 to the pond...at 8:56 pace. I seem to have a problem with my warm ups... I think they are always a bit too fast. I ran until my garmin read an even mile marker so that I would not have to do too much math LOL. 1 miles at 7.51 pace. So for my first mile I was probably a bit too fast... this was difficult by the end I was ready to slow down. .25 at 9:59 pace. I had to walk a bit to catch my breath. Next 1 mile fast at 7:49 pace... again this was very difficult by the end lungs and legs were burning! .25 at 10:04pace, had to walk a bit... as I was getting closer to my last fast bit I was really dreading it, but kept telling myself just one more. Last 1 mile at 8:13... at about .25 to the end of the last fast mile I really started to hurt! My left hip joint and pubic bone felt like they were on fire! I should have stopped but I wanted to make the entire mile. .33 at 11:01... this was suposed to be .25 but I was hurting so much I forgot to hit the lap button. Last 1.90 miles was a slow limp back to the car. I was seriously hurting and still am! I'm so upset that I'm this out of shape! I finally try to do a serious work out and not just my usual run, and I end up hurt, and to top it off I signed up for a race Saturday!!! CRAP!!! I will see how I feel tomorrow it I run or not. How do you know if you have just a pulled muscle or something more serious. When my running friend had pelvic stress fractures she said she could not stand the one leg that hurt. So I stood on my left foot and I can do it with out too much pain... she said she could not even lift her foot off the ground. So I'm thinking its just a pulled muscle. But it hurts now to just sit or walk. :( I'm just so completely sad and angry with myself.
7.47 miles: 1:08:14
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