Tamy

1:13 total

Shins were throbbing a little in this run.  May take tomorrow off, and I'm thinking of making this week a regression week.  I've increased mileage for 4 weeks in a row.  Maybe dialing it back a little this week would be good.  Question is can I resist increasing mileage again?

After not laboring to run on Labor Day, I got in a good 10 miler today.  I did it in 1:33. 

 I've decided to try doing some Yasso 800s tomorrow.  I think I should start with only 4 since I haven't done any speed work.  Then I'll go up to 6 next week and so on up to 10.  As I ran the close-to-9-minute miles on my 10 miler today, I felt like I could definitely keep that pace for 26.2, but I'm not sure if I could do 8:38s, which is what's needed to qualify for Boston.  I'm hoping the Yasso 800s will give me a better idea of where I am.

Did my 4 Yasso 800s today with a 400 jog in between.  Before doing them, I did a 2 mile warm up and then a few more miles afterwards though I didn't feel like going the full 10 today.

As I said yesterday, I only wanted to do 4 800s today since I'm just starting out.  Good thing too cuz the hamstring I kind of irritated running into the kid on the bike last weekend is kind of irritating me again after the 800s.  Hopefully, it's not going to get worse....

Anyway, 3:45 was the goal pace for the 800s and they went like this:

3:20--too fast

3:24--still too fast

3:43--perfect

3:36--I'm sure I was strong enough to do 6 at 3:45 if I'd not gone out too fast on the first two.

Overall, it was a nice confidence booster to see that I've got some speed to work with.  Now, to increase it....

Arrgggghh.  My hamstring was tight the whole run.  I was planning to do an easy 10 but decided it wasn't worth risking a pull to keep going.  I think I'll swim tomorrow instead of running.  Then I'll try again Saturday.  I had planned this to be a light week but for rest not for injury.  Arrrggghh.

This entry is entitled: Tamy's Hamy

Hamstring, that is.  I almost skipped my run today because the hamstring was so messed up yesterday.  But I went and got a massage, and when I finished, I felt like running.  When I started the run, it still felt very fragile like it did yesterday.  So I took it easy and stopped 1.5 miles in and stretched really well.  Midway through the run I was feeling really good and doing about 9:15/mile.  I finished the 10 miles in 1:32.  Considering yesterday I ran 8 miles in an embarrassing 1:33, I was very pleased with today's run.