Drove over to the stadium at Southside to try their track. First to see if it were open, second to see if it's accessible to the public, and three to test out the leg. Figured that if I had big problems, I'd be no more than 250 yards from the car.
So I get out and start running laps. Only other person out there is an SHS pole vaulter, messing around with his pole at the vaulting pit. Leg started hurting pretty quickly. Decided to keep going and see what happened. It didn't get any worse, and I decided I could tolerate that level of pain. First I was gonna run 3, then 4, then 5, finally decided to do a 10k. And somewhere between 4 and 5 miles, I realized the left leg didn't hurt any more. So then I started pushing the pace a bit. Ran the sixth mile at something approximating MP, and the last lap at about 10K pace. Then I jogged three laps of cooldown to complete 7 miles. All in all, not a bad run; glad I decided to HTFU and push through it.
Time for the 10K, by the way, was about 55 minutes. Not super speedy, but considering I limped through the first 4.5 miles, not too bad. | 