Today was supposed to be a 16 miler. Didn't quite work out though. To start, I bought one of those hydration fanny pack things last night so that I wouldn't have to do loops by the house or ask anyone to leap frog me. I didn't check the size until I got home and if I had I wouldn't have bought it, but after trying it on I figured it could work. It felt fine for the first mile or so, but then it was sliding up and bouncing around. Because of the nylon shorts it wouldn't stay on my hips and on my waist it bounced even more.
Then at about 2 or so my left quad started hurting. At 3 I walked a few steps to get some water and when I started running again, my leg was more uncomfortable. At 3.5 I stopped for both the leg and water reasons and turned around and walked home. I did try running 2 times on the way home and my leg didn't feel to good. I hope I just slept weird or something. I came home and put some wintercrest on and will try tomorrow.
My long run is shot for the week though, no time to run to much until next weekend. That will mean a jump to 18 miles. I am keeping my fingers crossed. |