started the day teaching core fushion - didn't do most of it
Well today was great and not so great. i wanted to run the course for the sand hollow marathon and get a feel for the hills. i started at mile 5 where it turns off the main rd.
So i started out and i was simply amazed how great my legs felt. i'm running the lake to lake relay this weekend and knew my miles weren't going to be more than 10 then. so i wanted a semi long one. Anyhow, i was easily running 7:30 -7:40 - which is always a shock the week after running a race. The hill the leads to nemisis felt pretty long, and i'll have to be mindful that it's longer than it looks. i charged down nemisis, and ran the rolling hills in sand hollow. I love it! my legs were flying. i was just cruising up the hills at 7:10, and was hardlly breathing.
At mile 8 i turned around and that's where things went not so great. I started getting a pain in my side - it felt familiar cause that is what i had felt on sat during miles 9-13 of my race. i thought it had been a side ache. it was now apparent that i had done something to my ab muscles on my right side. too much turbokick and zumba??? i don't know.
anyways, so the pain increased as i ran, and at several points i had to stop and walk. when i massaged it, i could get it to go away for a bit. when i ran uphill it went away. it got worse on downhills (abs stretching out more). By mile 14 i was pretty frustrated, but last 2 miles felt ok. it was there but bearable. I still managed to finish with a few 7:10s. my miles 9-11 were 7:40s and then nemisis was 8:20ish. 13-16 were low 7s again. So i was very happy about my fitness level today - especially post race and up hills! I wasn't planning to push my pace today, but had just gone with what i felt. I am very worried about the ab pain. I can't tell if its the rectus abdominus, or obliques, but it'sjust on the right side in the middle. it was bad enough to make me stop a few times.
7:30 average pace today
i trained big loser contestants, and then taught my class afterwards. the pain seemed manageable and i didn't think to much of it. hopefully it's not bad! i plan on taking tomorrow off of running
iced and massaged the part that hurts on abs - brrr - seems to be 2 spots. | 