Started off March with a really bad backache from the moment I woke up. Hurt to bend over, get up, sit down, stand, you name it. Hot bath, stretching, ibuprofen didn't touch it. Finally about noon, tried the one thing I hadn't tried yet: Running. Jog around the block (0.8 miles) hurt like the dickens, but it got the blood flowing, and soon my back felt much better. I was even able to go shopping with my wife. So I'm winding up with a triple workout today, so to speak, which may screw up my per-run average for March. After the 0.8 midday jog, I just finished a 6.25-mile recovery run, and will go for another 4-mile run later while my wife works out at the athletic club to cap off an 11-mile recovery day. Addendum: Wife didn't go to the AC, but I did, and legs felt good enough to crank it up to GMP for the last half-mile. Even put the 1% incline on the dreadmill for the first time in a really long time.
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