Buttsweat Towel© season has begun

Long day at work today but a thunderstorm came through afterward and the rest recharged me and made it nice and cool by the time I went out for my run.  It ended up being a great evening for a run: upper 60s and breezy, but the breeze felt nice and cool.

Felt so great the first 3 miles so I couldn't stop myself from doing a short 2-mile tempo in mile 4 and 5. Those were 7:05 and 7:17.  Avg pace was 7:51 for the entire 6.  What a difference a day makes.  Feels like I went from 50% of my pre-injury fitness to maybe 85% in one day.

No run tomorrow but there will be a lot of hiking up hills and stuff so a day off is probably a good thing.  I think I'll make it another 5-run week since I'll be traveling back home all day Friday.

And, in other news, I finially finished my MBA.  That's a big monkey off my back that's been there for 2+ years, I'm dun with edumacation for awhile.

Just happy to get in the miles today.  I sort of set myself up for a bad one.  After some decently strenuous activity in the field I had to eat and then run almost right afterward if I was going to get it in.  Didn't have time to properly rehydrate from the field exercises.  So I plodded/shuffled around until I got to 6.  I'm not sure how, but I ended up with an 8:22 pace though I had to work pretty hard to get it (felt like 7:45 pace or so).  Like I said, happy to just get in the miles.

6 more base-building miles, 8:29 pace.  Felt sluggish again but thankfully the field portion of training here is over so I can recover properly each day.  I'll be back in Abilene on Friday.

Time to take a couple days off - my hip is sore again.  I hope it's from this training and not that I came back to running too soon.  Hopefully I didn't re-strain it or whatever the heck was wrong with it.  It's definitely not as bad as it was when I had to quit running a month ago, so I'll play it by ear.

My hip is still messed up, either from training last week or from coming back too fast.  Either way, I'm sitting out until Tuesday, when I have a PFT (will have to run 1.5).  So the goal now is to make it to that, then just stop running until my hip is better.  Maybe a week, maybe a month.  I just don't want to keep playing this game where it gets worse every time I try to run a decent mileage and then keep having to sit out.  So in the meantime I'll make a half-hearted effort at some cardio.