"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

This will be a cut back week for me, no hills and the only speed work will be the race on Saturday. I will run 4 to 5 miles on the week days but keep the pace easy. My shin started off sore but after a couple of steps its seems to go away and once I got going it felt okay. My average pace was 8:31 with a total time at 44:12, I forgot my HR monitor so I have no numbers on that. After the run I finished up with some upper body strength training and then some push-ups, it was a beautiful day out and the temps were perfect.

See ya tomorrow.

I ran out to the T in the road and then ran back to the house, my calf and shin never really got loosened up and it was a bother the whole run hence the reason for the shorter run today... This is a cut back week for me so no big deal on the low miles for the day but I am slightly worried about this. It's a real funky feeling to, when I do one legged squats the first two are weak but then the pain goes away and its fine but then when I do the next set it does the same thing. That's how it has been running the first couple of steps are tender and then its fine after that but today it stayed sore the whole time, so I might take tomorrow off and then run on Thursday and then take Friday off and then do the race on Saturday, at least that's the plan. My average pace was 8:40 with a total time of 29:47, HR average was at 132. After the run I did my lower body weight training and then called it a day.

See ya tomorrow.

I went to the PT today to have him check out my shin and calf, he ruled out a stress fracture momentarily, and he taped me up pretty good and then had me go and run but the result was pretty much the same. It was better but I had the same problem as yesterday, the longer I went the worse it got so that's pretty disappointing. I had some serious throbbing pain after I completed the run too which was frustrating! I went from hopefully PR-ing to now just hoping I can finish the race, and if I wasn't in the runners series I would probably be bailing on the race! But I need to at least finish so I can get the automatic spot for the St. George Marathon, I will not run Thursday or Friday and I hope that the extra days off and his tape job will get me through it. My PT will be down in ST. George so he will tape me the night before and then I'll just have to hope and pray. I was just getting back in shape and now this, very frustrating! Oh well, such is my life when it comes to running.

Later.

I will be taking today and tomorrow off in preparation for the race on saturday, the calf and shin are still giving me rpoblems and I am hopeful that I can at least finish the race and get my automatic spot in the SGM! Its been a frustrating couple of days, I feel sorry for my poor wife who has to put up with my oneriness;( She's a true saint!

Later.

So the way my leg was feeling I was just hoping to finish this race and I have had 2 days off from running and so I was just praying for something good. I warmed up a little at the top of the canyon with my Brother Curtis and tried it out and there was very little pain, but I knew that was a little deceiving... I just decided to get after it and then hope my leg just hangs on. Here are the splits.

1- 6:45 feeliing pretty dang good, all downhill.

2-7:01 still feeling good but slowed down out of fear. Still downhill.

3-6:59 Staying steady and the leg is holding up some up hill and some downhill.

4-7:23 Uphill  and then downhill on this one and I kind of gave up a little mentally, leg still fine.

5-7:38 Some flat and up hill on this one and I kind of checked out here and I was really disappointed in myself on this one, leg still fine.

6-7:44 Really having a hard time for some reason, legs are fine but my lungs are having a hard time, very disappointing.

.20- 6:50 I picked it up on the last stretch but it was a little late and it cost me a 10K PR, but it was still a PR on this course so I guess I have to be less hard on myself.

My Leg held up really well, but as I'm writing this it is pretty sore. I really could have ran a sub 43 minute race had I of stayed with the pace a little better, I don't know if I was still holding back because of the leg or if I kind of lost it mentally,  but I am so glad that I was able to get this race done and now I'm in SG which was the goal. I will be taking some time off to get this darn leg healed up I'm thinking maybe a week or a little less, two days off did wonders so maybe if I can stand it I will take a full week off and see where I'm at. I was able to see some fellow bloggers which is always nice, and they seemed to all have great races. I hope to improve with some better speed work, and  I feel like I handled the hills alright but I wasn't trusting my legs with the race and I was a little scared of the pace, but I have to learn to let that go and take some chances.

See ya Monday.