Notes
Yesterday, I was in the training room, apparently during the team meeting (the e-mail for which I only got after practice). Mike was asking someone else who had foot surgery whether she dreamed about walking, and the though crossed my mind that I never had dreamed about running, and I thought to myself that perhaps the experience of running or exercising hard is too vivid and real to be dreampt about. Then last night as if to disprove myself, I had a dream about running a Cruise Interval Workout. The team was there, but it was a woody and hilly terrain - like in Clarence. And then I woke up.
I decided it would be an excellent day to try out my beautiful new ASICS GT-2150's.
So today actually went well. Things always feel normal when I don't run. As I've probably mentioned earlier, it always hurts somewhere different everyday, which I actually find encouraging, as it is more likely delocalized and hopefully less severe at any one place. So I went out and ran a mile today, but it =was hurting in my upper calf. Towards the outside, where I'm told by Jessica that I still have tightness in my calf. I remembered a similar experience 2 months ago, when I went to run came back to crown with grade 1 pain after 2 miles, rolled the outside of my calf very hard, and then ran another 2 miles pain free. So Today, I tried the same thing. I ran 1 mile, then rolled very hard on the foam roller in Ratner gym room. I then ran another 2 miles. Oddly the pain was now in my Hamstring tendon, but I didn't believe it. I think it shifted down towards the fibular head as I continued to run (around the track behind ratner). I rolled again. I think I found a knot that I hadn't been rolling just under the fibular head. I think I'd been missing it out of a desire not to actually roll the head, but I think it actually refers pain to the hamstring.
So I think things are getting better. The aqua jogging didn't seem to take anything out of me, so I think I will start to integrate that into the routine, as it would be good.
I came back and rowed a 10k at sustained threshold pace in 38:47.6. It was basically a 39 minute sustained threshold with a minor acceleration at the end. It seems that the limiting factor in my rowing ability is fore arm strength, but I have no interest in becomming a rower (although I functionally am training like a distance rower at present).
Afterwards, biked like 21 minutes. Hard day.
For the record, My current prerun/ postrun stretch routine is:
1) Towel Calf stretch
2) Towel Stretch of hamstring (move calf)
3) Turned Hamstring reach
4) Normal Hamstring stretch
5) Roll everything
6) Turned towed calf stretch
7) Quad Stretch
8) Well-Qu's Hip stretches
9) Ankle turns
------- Plus after run
10) Adductor
11) Eccentric Heel raises
12) Hamstring Extension Drill On one leg
3, 6, and 9 are stretches I invented to reach new areas.