Running in the Middle

Exactly two weeks off with complete rest.  Felt good to do something today.  Walked 1/2 mile around the track, 25 min elliptical, 6 min helix lateral machine, 1/2 mile more walk around the track.  The next few weeks I plan on doing some gentle workouts and try to stretch a lot and roll out problem areas.  Things are feeling improved, but there is still tightness/weakness on my right side.  Guess I'm not ready to run yet, but I know I will get there if I'm patient and careful.

Pm.  1.5 hours Relief Society Basketball.  Full Court, no subs. 

One hour yoga class

1/2 mile walking around the track.  10 min Lateral Helix Machine, 21 min elliptical

I'm hoping the lateral machine will help with the instability in my right leg.  Really would like to run, but think I need to do a little more strengthening first. 

1/2 mile walking.  10 min Lateral machine, 21 min elliptical, 1/2 mile walking.

indoor track walked 1/2 mile, then ran two slow.  First time running in a month and felt good but entirely too much jiggle going on which was just sad.  10 min Lateral helix machine, followed by 10 minutes on a weird machine I never tried before called an Adaptive Motion Trainer, kinda like and elliptical.

Indoor track 1/2 mile walking/ 2 mile run slow, but felt better then last time.  12 minutes on the Lateral Helix machine, wow I really love this machine.  It works everything that normally does not get worked.  

Indoor track 1/2 mile walking.  2.25 miles running, not as slow and weird as the first run on Monday, so that felt good and normal.  14 min  Lateral Machine, that machine kicks my butt, its awesome.

Indoor track 1/2 mile walking warmup, run 2.5 miles, picked up a bit on the last half mile and that was fun.  Followed by 15 min. on the Lateral Helix Machine.  My fitness level is not as bad as I thought it would be after a month off, but it probably helped that I did some cross training, instead of just nothing.  I need to go get some new shoes.  Its time.  I'm thinking about trying out some altras.  

Indoor track 1/2 mile warmup walk.  Ran 2.5 miles at a nice comfortable pace.  Then 15 minutes on the Lateral machine.  Will do core strengthening as well.  I always do that as part of my work out, just forget to blog about it.  

The track was so crowded this morning, guess everyone there was wimpy like me and don't want to run in the cold.  I play a little game as I go round and round to try and keep from getting bored.  I look at the shoes people are wearing and try to guess what brand/model it is.  There's some saucony's, oh some nice flashy brooks pure connects, hmmm...that does not look like any sorta brand, maybe payless shoes, then here come some Altras Intuitions, this lady might be a serious runner.  This game never gets old, or at least it hasn't yet.