Rhett

I headed out for a run around the island this morning looking for a nice flat run to do some mp miles.  It was crazy windy out there and raining.  After a warm up mile I tried to hit mp and did on the first mile, then with all the rain my watch started freaking out so I had to lock the bezel which made it so I couldn't activate the light.  I just had to run by feel after that and look at my splits when I was done.  With the wind blowing so hard I felt like I was stopped in my tracks when I was running straight into it, I never could get a good steady effort or pace.  It was a tough mp run.  I did a total of 10 mp pace miles and then did 2 cool down miles.  My left calf started hurting near the end of the run.  I think I may have a bit of tendonitis in it.

Anways, 13 total miles 1:32:20

AP of the 10 mp pace miles was 6:52.  Not where I wanted them to be, but with all the wind I guess I'll take it.

PM- did some light jump roping to see if the calf would loosen up.  It felt a little better by the end. 

I shaved my calf and put on some KT tape last night.  The stuff is magic and I fully expect it to make my calf better by run time tomorrow morning.

Lower body weights

Abs and core work

40 minutes elliptical

My calf felt fine on the elliptical.  I guess the tape is already working it's magic.  :)

The more I thought about Teena's comment yesterday, the more I knew she was right.  It wouldn't kill me to take another easy day before my next run, so I decided to put off my next run until tomorrow.

45 minutes elliptical

When I woke up this morning I could feel some pain in my calf before I ever got out of bed.  I thought oh boy, another day without running.  When I got up and walked on it, it felt fine though, so I did some calf raises on it and it still felt fine, so I decided to give it a go.  

I went to the gym for some TM running so I could quit at the first sign of discomfort.  I broke out my heaviest shoes and even added some heel lifts in them to take a little more strain off the calf.  I wanted to do some speed work, but didn't want to go overboard (Nothing Stupid!) so I stole Teena's speed workout from the other day.   

TM 1% incline

2 miles warm up @ 8:00

3 progressively faster miles 7:30, 6:45, 6:00 repeated 3 times

2 mile cool down @8:00

Total run 13 miles

No calf discomfort at all while running. It will be interesting to see how it feels later today.  I did get a little blister from the heel insert though, and it was a weird feeling running in them.  With those and the heavier shoes, I felt like I was running with leg weights on. 

Really crazy day today.  Busy at work and then I went and did a local radio show with Kerry from our FRB.  We was supposed to be talking about eyes, but we ended up talking about running about half the time.  It was real fun.

My kids watnted to go running when I got home from work so we went out for a little jog:  1.5 miles in 15 minutes.

Then I had to shower up and go pick up pizza for the High Priest group social.  It was fun and got over around 9 pm.  It was a beautiful night and I knew that Saturday was going to be crazy, so I decided to get a little head start on my Satruday long run which started Friday night, but ended Saturday morning.  I'll blog it on tomorrow's page.

So I started running around 10pm Friday and headed out for a long run.  I ran a course I have never run before.  It was a fun adventure.  I had a few twinges in my calf, but nothing that ever bothered me much.  My stomach wasn't feeling quite right since I'm used to running in the morning, not at night after having gone to a H.P. group social.  I wore my fuel belt with just water and took 3 Gu's with me.  I finally remembered to take the first Gu at mile 7 and then didn't think about it again until about mile 17, so I just didn't take the other 2 since my stomach felt a little queezy. 

Anyways I did 18.5 miles, AP 7:33 and got home a little after midnight.  I slept like a baby and then was up and seeing my first patient at 8am this morning.  It's just after noon now, and I have to drive up to Bullhead City (about 1hour and 15 minutes) to have a meeting with my partners.  I can think of way better ways to spend my Saturday afternoon, but I guess I better go and get it over with.

Oh my calf feels perfectly fine today!!!!

PM--I finally made it home from a long day of work and Cade wanted to go running, so we did 2 miles together nice and slow.