Ran a 5 mile tempo in Hobble Creek Canyon with Josse again. We warmed up for three miles then did 2.5 tempo up and down. Here are my splits per garmin: 1 - 6:47 2 - 6:33 .51 - 3:24 (6:40 pace), turn around at 16:44
1 - 6:07 - so hard to shift gears
2 - 6:05 - finding it hard to stay motivated
.5 - 2:57 (5:54 pace), this last .5 stinks because of two uphill pieces, so glad to be under 6 minute pace.
To get the last .5 on the garmin I had to go beyond our starting point by .08, so I think my garmin had me turn around too early on the way up, which accounts partially for the fast uphill splits. I ended both this time and last week at a meadow on my left, this time I paid attention better to where I stopped in the meadow. I need to just pick a tree and stick to it so I can watch total time up and down for future workouts. Even if my uphill was 2.42 I would still be going up at 6:55 average pace, and an average pace of 6.48 (assuming distance was 4.92) for the whole workout, versus 6.53 last week. Anyway, I'll spare us all further analysis. I didn't feel like doing the workout at all, so just glad I didn't bag it. weight 124. Again! Afternoon - Dr. Brady apptmt - When I showed him where my pain was coming from in my glute he said, its the ckjalfd or dsfmdio bone. I said, can you spell that first name for that bone? I thought there was a fighting chance of me actually remembering the bone name. He said "S-I-T-T-I-N-G--it's the non-technical name for that bone." I am such a dork. Anyway, its not my glute muscle but where my hamstring and that inner thigh muscle, starts with an A (geez I can't remember) attaches to my "sitting bone" which was experiencing some tendonitis. He worked that out, my lower hamstring and my groin. Even though my pain had receded much in two days, he found ways to pull my leg (with the help of his lovely assistant Megan) and dig in right where I was feeling it. Its amazing, what ya'll with physiology and sports medicine background can do. I know I wouldn't be running right now without Josse and Dr. Brady. They're part of my team (ok, Josse is in more than one way). Evening - I timed the 50m dash for all the cub scouts and family at a pack meeting. I just wanted to run it myself the whole time. Finally someone offered to time me. So I raced this guy who had just smoked his wife (I didn't want to run against her, that just wouldn't be fair). So we race. I felt like my legs were going to fall off, like they had never run before in their life. Sprinting is such a different animal from what I normally do, the dash was even so different from my strides. I beat him by just a hair. They timed me at 7.49, though I can't vouch for the accuracy of the course nor the watch. The course was slightly uphill. I didn't add this to my mileage, just thought I would write up the experience.
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