Rhett

After taking a week off with no running or any real exercise, I was excited to get back out running this morning. I hit the trails for the first time since the snake incident about 6 months ago and just took it easy for 7 miles.  My right hammy was still a bit tight from my marathon 8 days ago but otherwise my legs felt fine.  I plan on rebuilding my cardio base with a lot of slow miles and a lot of that on trails for the next few months.

I got back out on the trails again this morning.  My hammy had loosened up but the tightness moved to my knee. By the end of the run it was improved.

6 fun easy miles. 

6 more miles on the trails. My legs felt like they had a little spring back in them today.  The little post marathon aches and pains seem to be mostly gone.  Hopefully that means I'll be able to run a decent 5k this Saturday. 

Trail run followed up by some strides, totalling 5 miles.  It felt good getting my legs turning over quickly with strides. 

I kept it short with a few strides at the end so I will hopefully have some juice in my legs for tomorrow's 5K.

3 miles.

Today was the annual 5k Turkey Trot here I Lake Havasu City. Our high school cross country runners showed up this year to give us a faster field than usual. Dan of course led the race from the start and ended up finishing around 16:30. He’s only 3 years younger than me and is still blazing fast. One of the cross country kids did his best to hang with him and finished about a minute behind him. Then there was the next group which I was in. I managed to pass them all but one who I was trying to kick and catch at the end but just didn’t have it today. It was nice being able to run with other runners that pushed me.

I ended up finishing in 18:59 which I was both happy about and a bit disappointed in. I was happy to be under 19 but was hoping to challenge my PR of 18:22 which I set last year in this race. I’m guess with only two weeks since running a hard marathon, I didn’t fully have my legs back yet. All I n all it was a fun morning. BTW, the weather was amazing! 50 degrees, sunny, and no wind.