45 min Spin class - my butt is sore! Spin is weird....I did not feel like I was working very hard but I was dripping sweat by the end so apparently I was. Great low impact cross training! The only problem is most days it starts at 5:15am and that is just a little too early for me. The 5:45am class was perfect!
20 min weights
2 treadmill miles. Felt really good to start and then Bam.....pain! So I quit.
Charity 5k tonight to raise money for a girl from my hometown that was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. I will be working on my pacing skills.....someone give me an exact time to shoot for?
Happy Columbus Day! It's been a day of discovery alright!
- I discovered that Spin is hard and hurts your butt! Seriously wow.
- I discovered that you should never start at the very back of a 5k with 200 people and half of them with strollers and dogs.
- And most importantly I discovered that you should always listen to the course directions even if you think you will take last place.
I had zero intent of "racing" this race....heck I've literally been dragging my right leg around and not ran one sub-8 minute mile since TOU. But my brain has issues and honestly running fast with this stupid injury feels better than jogging. I started way in the back thinking there would be a bunch of HS kids and I would just run with my friend Alisha and hangout. I truly felt like I was barely jogging but somehow after the first mile and swirving past about 100 little kids and strollers I was in the lead? I felt good so just decided to run what felt like a comfortable hard effort. I was in the lead so as runner instinct would have it I didn't want to lose it! I promised myself that if I had any pain at all I would be smart and stop or slow down. I did not know the course at all and kept running when I was supposed to turn adding an extra .1 mi according to garmin. The cop had to chase me down and redirect me and somehow I was still in the lead? Nephi people seriously need to get in better shape because the fact that I was winning a 5k running slower than marathon pace was just ridiculous! Didn't look at my watch once and just ran by feel. Jogged it in at the end because it finished on gravel. 7:05, 6:40, 6:08, 6:15
Moral of the story: If your injured just run fast and it will solve the injury? Just kidding I am not getting too excited and sitting here icing as we speak. I think it just felt so dang good and smooth to run fast that I was able to shut out any sign of pain. Who knows running injuries are so weird! | 