Rhett

1/4 mile warm up walk on TM then,

Pilates, then 30 minutes (10 miles) on stationary bike.  

Calf feels good this morning.  I may try and do a short TM run or maybe some jump rope tonight.  Trying to error on the side of caution with the calf since race day is this Saturday.

1/4 mile warm up walk on TM. 

Core work.

Lower body weights, only to sets of everything instead of the normal 3.

10 minutes jump rope

1 mile on TM stating very slow and gradually building until the last 1/4 mile at sub 6 minute pace.  

Calfs felt good.  Had good push off.  No niggles until like the very last step of the mile run when I felt a tiny little something in my left calf.  It seems fine now so hopefully it was nothing.  I usually know by the end of the day.  Hopefully I won't have any tightness or knotts in the calf this evening.

Yesterday evening my left calf was definitely sore.  This is giving me big cause for concern since race day is Saturday.  I did some massage and stretching.  This morning it felt much better.  I am not going to run or do any type of exercise that stresses my calfs until the race.  

30 minutes stationary bike this morning riding easy except for 2 1 minute hard pushes.

Pilates then a visit to the PT. My left calf is a mess. Not sure I'll be able to race Saturday. I'm going to try though. 

Sat in the hot tub for a bit before packing up and heading out to Blake's for the marathon tomorrow. Still very worried about my calf. 

Big Bear Marathon 

My calf was bothering me last night so I KT taped it and told Blake that if it didn't feel better in the morning I wasn't going to run. When I got up this morning I tested it out with a little run up and down his street and decided to give it a go. 

It was a perfect day to run a marathon, cold and sunny with no wind and a serious downhill course. Blake and I ran together from the start keeping our pace right at my BQ qualifying time of 3:25. My calf bothered me on and off from the start but I decided to go as far as it would let me. We had so much fun running and talking. The miles went by quickly. At about mile 22 I started laboring a bit and my calf started hurting more. I continued to press on and mad it past mile 25 still on pace to BQ when suddenly my calf quit and I told Blake to continue on. I had to walk the last mile which was no fun and I clearly lost a lot of time and didn't BQ, but I loved the race just getting to run with Blake. We really had a lot of fun. He finished strong in 3:25:21.