Sock tans

Lower mileage today to give myself more time to recover from Saturday. I’m just a tiny bit sore. Just want to be cautious because I’m nervous now after having pushed through a stress reaction last track season, I don’t want a repeat. What triggered that was getting too excited after 4 days of speed and running 13 miles in Salt Lake and jumping up in mileage a ton, then running through pain when I suspected what it was from the start and thought I was just paranoid. So I won’t be doing that again, I’m going to be staying in the 45-50 miles a week range. And I think I know my body well enough to know what I can and can’t run through. My low back/hip is slightly bugging, it’s probably from my screwy hips which I’ve been doing my best to roll out and realign myself, it’s a lot more difficult when I’m not sure which direction they’re tilted or how far off they are, can’t really measure that myself. But I’m doing what I can to imitate what Drew had me do and will keep doing rehab. It could also be my extremely tight piriformis. Maybe I’ll have Hattie elbow it out for me. I’m catching Tessa’s cold, which is awesome. The twins are little contagions I swear haha, it seems like every time I come home I get sick with whatever they’ve got. Haha but I love them to death. Pounding the Vitamin C and taking Zinc too to help boost my immune system. 

7:15 average

Merry Christmas! We still have Christmas magic happening at our house, so I was woken up pretty early to see what Santa brought us :) T’was a good morning. 

Was planning on 8, but I was feeling pretty run down. Might hit the hay early tonight, lol. 7:23 average

Snowy run. Was feeling really drained of energy so I thought I better let my body rest instead of pushing for 10 miles. Ran to Sugarhouse Park and did a couple laps on the road then back home. 7:52 average. Lots of sledders

Still felt like I was running through water, but I did have a little more energy. Did VA loop then dropped to 1300 E and took it to Sugarhouse. Then did a perimeter lap and ran home. 7:39 average

Garek texted and said it felt like 9 degrees outside... lol. Yeah it did. He bailed though because he had an eye infection. The little twerp, how dare you get sick?! Lol. Shriner’s run, went to the end of 11th Avenue and down towards memory grove then turned around at 5 miles. Felt like it was still a solid run despite the slower pace. Post-run cough was fire. 7:42 average

Started with wasatch then forgot they don’t shovel the sidewalks well past the shops on foothill so I turned and did VA loop to 1300 E, then along there a bit, turned and went up to the zoo then back home. 7:40 average, still feeling a bit tired but it felt loads better than  a few days ago.