Drove over to Bryant High this morning to run at the track. It was open, but I found a construction crew putting down the foundation for what I assume to be a new artificial turf football field. Which would not have been too much of an issue, except that they had built a dirt ramp over the track at one corner for dump trucks to drive across, and the dirt was at least a foot thick. Not exactly conducive to running intervals. Plus my glutes were still really sore; I can only assume it was from the drive down, since I didn't run at all yesterday and I had no discomfort in that area after Wednesday's run.
Anyway, between the glutes and the obstruction on the track, decided 400s were not gonna work. So I decided to do a moderate run of about three miles then do some strides and drills at the end. That plan worked pretty well; did 8 strides, two side-shuffles, two butt kicks and two high-knee drills. All of that worked out to 3.6 miles, which was 14 laps in lane 5 due to construction obstruction. Glutes felt better after I finished than when I started, and I got back in time for the soccer game at 9. | 