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Trails are hard!
Need a fast half for late fall. Then I need to actually train for it.
You are running well now and may surprise yourself with an even faster pace than planned, but it sounds to me that this is not a goal pace race but rather a tactical race to beat these two juniors. FWIW. Spareribs
Leslie Living and Running Behind the Redwood Curtain -------------
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i'm lovin' it... MM#1949
....Once at the PT, the course of action is invariably the SAME. She strengthens the muscles that surround the affected, strained and weakened muscle to allow it to heal properly. Time after time, when I talk with other runners who are recovering from injury they say the same thing: the PT focuses on strengthening all the support for that muscle. And in my case, this has always worked. The problem is that I generally take too long to get there or I keep trying to run while I am supposed to be focused solely on healing the injury. So now I am doing the entire exercise set my PT gave me when I had this same injury in the past....
Perch's Profile "I don't know if running adds years to your life, but it definitely adds life to your years." - Jim Fixx "The secret is to make in your mind possible what was not possible before. The secret is to make easy what was difficult, instead to make difficult what really is easy." - Coach Renato Canova
Carolyn
I hammered down the trail, passing rocks and trees like they were standing still.
For you
Recogizing that you actually have an injury vs some minor twinge here or there is the hard part.
Live like you are dying not like you are afraid to die.
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jdmom, I am also a believer in the 20+ mile LR all through a training cycle. I am working with someone now whose marathon is not until spring and this athlete is doing 20 milers every other week right now.
Once a runner . . .
Leslie, when will you get the results from your CT scan? Hope they find something easy to fix that's been causing your problems.
If I can root for having Lyme disease I do not see why you cannot root for a bad gall bladder!
Still, if you goal is to push your personal envelope expect to get hurt and sidelined on occasion. The more you want to push the more often you can expect to end up hurt. It is just the way it is.
Be safe. Be kind.