Sock tans

I slept through my alarm by accident today... I'm exhausted for some reason. I got a full 10 hours of sleep last night so I shouldn't be tired... but I am. I did stay up really late on Saturday cause I was hanging out with a friend who leaves for his mission tomorrow and it was my last chance to say goodbye. Anyway, I decided to wait until after work to run, did shriner's run.

Was tired again throughout the day, but I stayed up pretty late again last night so... Yeah. But when it came time to run I felt surprisingly good! I did feel a little bloated because I had just eaten dinner but other than that I felt great! Towards the end my IT band started to hurt so I'll roll that out in a bit. When we talked to coach last week Angie mentioned that we typically start our runs pretty slow for a mile and coach said not to include that in our 50% runs, that would count as warmup. So today I did start slow for a mile (7:54) and the uphill might've helped with that (I did Wasatch loop) but then picked it up a lot. Finished with 7:06 average for the whole thing, or 7:00 average for the last 7.25. 

AM:

5.25 miles, I went to Sugarhouse then up 2100 S until I hit foothill, then over to 1300 S and back home. I've got a good sized knot in my IT band. Gonna keep on rolling out and icing, might take some ibuprofen to get some of the inflammation out. I was debating whether I should do the Deseret News 10k or Half on Friday, but I don't know that I'll do either if this doesn't get under control. It wouldn't be worth the risk.

PM:

6 miles. IT band hurt. But I'd take it over sharp knee pain any day.

Kept it short today, I think I jinxed myself. IT hurt a little but my other knee was the focus of my pain. It's the same sharp knee pain that I've had off and on. Which means my other IT band is now aggravated, great. 

Cemetery run, I'm shocked at how much my IT has improved. Two days ago it hurt to go up the stairs, now it feels like it's back to normal. My knee felt better too! Easy 8:00 pace.

Started to run to the U's track, but then remembered that they usually have the bars up in lanes 1-3 so I'd have to run in lane 4, which I didn't want to do so halfway there I turned and went down to Liberty. I thought I should do some speed so that I can begin to feel what it's like again. It was kind of a failed attempt because there were so many people on the sidewalk (much more than usual) and it was windy. And I'm not really good at pacing because it's been a while since the last time I did a speed workout. But it's whatever. I did 4x800s, I hit 2:57, 2:54, 2:48, 2:46. First one I just went off of feel which was obviously not very accurate, and the third one had to stop for 3 seconds because a car failed to yeild to me (so I suppose it was technically a 2:45?) Was originally gonna do 6 but I bagged it after 4 because I was frustrated. It was also dark out and I got a little creeped out by some motorcycle gang honking at me (I didn't know they had horns?) It was just time to leave the park. Ran up 1300 S and added to 10.