First day in the office today.  Really quiet - less than half of the half who were allowed in, went in.

Been a couple of weeks since I posted here. I've been trying to lay off the internet and whatnot as much. It's been somewhat nice. But I've been running a lot (for no reason). I also dabbled in whole food plant based diet for two weeks. It has a lot of value, but wasn't for me. I've never been a "I must have meat" type of person, but it made me realize that I really like lean meats to get the macros. Either way,  at this point, just trying to focus on really refining my diet to see what works well with higher mileage and my body to recover. I have Shalene Flanagan's recipe book and made bison burgers last night, and my body really  liked them. I don't know how it goes with fuel and recovery...but they were awesome.

Anyways, two weeks ago was recovery week, all easy and no speed work - 65 miles

Week prior had an LT run thrown in, but the Long Run was just a steady state to get the miles. The body wasn't feeling it so I got 16.5 while falling off pace at the end by around :30 seconds per mile. Sunday recovery run was miserable which is odd, because I haven't been that way.

Current week:

Weekly for period: From: 05/11/2020 To 05/17/2020

Total distance: 72.53mi

Things I liked:

The interval workout was great.  I felt great the entire time. Was able to hold pace the entire time. Makes me wonder if any small races happen if I can approach sub-18, which is weird since going into late February, I was aiming on sub-19.

I ran with my daughter. That's a blast. She enjoys getting in her loop around the cul-de-sac.

The Long Run felt good. Legs were super tired going into it, but I was able to progressively do it from 8:25 pace up to 7:30 pace and did the last mile at 6:45. Also watched 1917 so that helped.

All in all, good training. Just hoping I can use it soon.

Re: Carrying water.  I always do during the summer.  I regularly race longer distances with a handheld, so I like to practice with it.

Quick check in with my sucky week:

Female, 46, 5'4", 108
PRs 5:25/18:51/38:56/1:02:28/1:24:08/2:57:42
Goal races: ???
Goal times: 18:30 for 5K, 1:23x for half, sub-2:55 for full
Next races: ???

26.5 miles, 5 miles of walking
M: Upperbody weights, core, and 5 mile walk
T: 12.5 miles, including an alternating workout of 2 short hill repeats (70 seconds at incline of 4.5), 10 minutes at tempo (6:25 pace), 2 short hill repeats, 10 minutes at tempo (6:22 pace), 2 short hill repeats. 2:30 jog after each hill or tempo segment. Followed with leg strengthwork.
W: 6 miles easy on treadmill (9:02), live streaming yoga, and 8 miles easy on treadmill (8:45).
Th: Upper body weights/core and streaming yoga..
F: Streaming yoga.
Sa: Streaming yoga,and upper body weights/core.
Su: Streaming yoga (two classes back to back) and leg strength work

I tweaked _something_ this week on Wednesday resulting in some left foot pain that caused me to shut stuff down. The foot thing is weird - it's on the outside rear of the heel as well as underneath. It's not peroneal tendonitis - I can evert that foot against resistance easily and without pain. It's not plantar faciitis either - the pain isn't in the right place, it doesn't improve as I walk on it, and the sole of the foot isn't tight at all. And sleeping in the strasbourg sock (my reliable standby for plantar fasciitis) results in the foot burning along the outside after a few hours.

We're pretty sure this is nerve pain (sural nerve) - it's burning, moves around, flares when I sit on a couch, hurts more when I wear shoes than when barefoot. And the pain in my foot syncs with pain in my hip or hamstring on that side, plus a feeling of tightness in that leg. Plus, the pain locations are in the right place for pain from the sural nerve and/or s1 in the spine.

Just frustrating - I know from past bouts with nerve stuff that it clears up much quicker when I stay active in some form. But....I don't want to walk or run on it, since it's sore enough to throw off my gait, and I don't have any other aerobic cross training options. The pools are still closed, and even if I had access to a bike, I'd be worried that might make stuff worse.

I've been to the chiro twice now, and popping of my SI joint, foot, and hip socket plus Graston on the back of my knee have done wonders, so that's good.  I'm actually hopeful that I'll be running again by the end of the week.

DWave - First, bummer about the nerve issues, but good that it's responding. Hopefully that continues positively and you're back to thing without issue soon.

Second, looking at your goal times in relation to my own running is interesting for me. For the first two are solidly in the "I can do that" camp for me - at least with a little more focused training instead of easy base work. But looking at sub 2:55 I can't help but think "that just SOOOOO fast and way out there!". Even sub-3 seems really aggressive, but perhaps that's clouded by my recent poor race performances. I've never thought of myself as being on the speed demon side of things (relatively speaking), but either my "speed surplus" is worse than I thought or my self-perception is seriously askew. Maybe a bit of both, who knows.

Lastly, your post in the marathoning thread on opening things up is easily the most sensible thing I've seen on the subject. I hear lots of people saying that either everything needs to be opened or everything needs to be shut down, but I see this as a homogeneous "solution" to a heterogeneous problem.
The issues impacting this vary so widely by rural vs urban areas (and many other variables besides) that it really does need to be handled locally.

Looks like Strava is changing some things up and playing games with people again. Here's a good write-up for anyone who is interested.

Mrakers - How do you pace your 1200/1000/800 sets?  Same speed for each one, or is your sense of pace good enough that you can automatically change from one speed to another appropriately?  I don't run different speeds in a single workout (unless you count warmup strides), but I expect I could find the right paces for something like alternating 1200s and 400s or maybe some 400s or 800s with a tempo in the middle, but not for distances as close as 1200 and 1000.

Darkwave - I hope your injury recovers soon.  Also, you post on Let's Run?  I thought you were too polite for there?  Or do you have a mean side?

Mrakers - you're pulling off some good weeks.

Given the lack of advertising and not selling your data, that's fair enough.

https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/gear/a32567204/strava-free-subscriber/

dwave Sounds like a tough spot to be in. Heals itself with use, but that risks an awkward gait and other "secondary" injury. I know my "active rest" working on the truck kind of helped, and my weekend run didn't bother the foot. Two weeks off seemed to upset the knee...or maybe it was the 20 mph winds I was dealing with for the first half, plus hills. Are you planning a few days off then back to running? I know my ankle would make walking from the bed to the "anywhere in the house" uncomfortable which was a big reason I decided to take time off. Oddly, it seemed to only hurt a little bit during a run. It was just everything AFTER the run that sucked.

I've lost a LOT of motivation to run. I guess part of it is no racing, and part of it is I don't have my usual lunch crew to chat with and push me to go run. Kind of sucks. Kind of opens doors to "well if you're not running" which tells me "ah THIS is how people get out of running." Fishing sounds like a good hobby to do while quarantining and socially distancing myself.

opening up? Well my Governor has calculated almost $1 BILLION dollars in lost revenue, and is keeping as much closed as he can. Sucks when you read articles of a businessman "retiring" after 30+ years. Just makes me think of everyone who wasn't able to retire. The businesses that are supposed to remain closed are operating under a "don't ask, don't tell" kind of policy. "oh we can go inside my private business and talk 6 feet away if you're here at this time and place." kind of operations. I'm in the "just open it all up and go back to normal" mode when I read my state has 100,000 tests conducted, about 7,000 positive results, and only 364 deaths (0.00364% of the population). 364 deaths (in my opinion of my friend's view) justifies keeping everything locked down and mask wearing in public while driving small business owners into bankruptcy. Because his 81 year old parents are in the "at risk" category and might catch COVID 19 from someone who works at the grocery store and doesn't wear gloves. Sorry man....2 people don't justify 1,000 losing jobs and new taxes to make up for the lost revenue. When I told him the masks he's wearing don't stop anything and "provides a sense of security" he said "well yeah." I say this as a father of a son who contracted a respiratory virus from his daycare when he was 1 year old, and daycare didn't have to shut down. Oh and my son went to the ER with a 104F fever. My nephew had the same thing and was in the ER for a week, as well as some kids from my son's class. So yeah, I might be a little biased towards "open it up and do what you personally think will keep you safe instead of forcing people to make you feel safe" and less government involvement in my life telling me how I have to stay safe. 8 weeks ago this was a 3 week shut down. I'm going to be interested to see what happens after this weekend. Plenty of society will be directly violating the social distancing and "don't travel" guidelines and I'm going to predict ANOTHER "spike" in COVID-19 positive tests qhich the governments will use to justify continued quarantining. Simply letting everyone get infected isn't an option to some people. Other people think "well if we had let everyone get infected three weeks ago we'd have a lot more people recovered or immune to it at this point.

so in other words, government is screwed either decision they make. Sit back, enjoy an adult beverage, and enjoy the new norm where people don't like being up in your personal space. I'm expecting the Boston Marathon to be held this September with 1/2 as many spectators as usual IF the weather is a nice day. Going past the college might not be as exciting. I hear there is a kissing station aroudn that area.