Goooood Morning everyone,

 

It's a new week Let's make it a good one. Sun's out and it looks like it's gonna be a gorgeous Spring day.

 

This morning I did a 45 min UB w/o, 10 min abs and 32 min LB. R-hip's been bothering me so I figured a rest from running was in order. I may do my 15 min recovery run after work when my hip's loosened up some more.

 

Have a great Monday and a most excellent run.

 

Sunday and today I have had my usual half hour on the deadmill.

 

I was looking through my log from a couple of years ago and saw that i was regularly doing 4miles in just over 32 mins on the treadmill. Since got back into it I havent really tried to see how fast I can go over that distance.

 

So I have had a couple of goes - managed 31:39 yesterday - 1min 10.5kph, 19 mins 12.0kph, rest 12.5kph.

Which i was pleased with, but felt i could go a bit faster.

so today ttired: 1min 10.5kph, 19 mins 12.5kph, rest 13.0kph = 30:29.

 

Am well chuffed with that, and i appreciate i didn;t warm up properly, and that doing this too often isnt a great idea. But with no race on the horizon, I am gonna stick to doing most of my miles around 10 min pace, with an treadmill interval session chucked in for a few weeks and have a go at cracking 30 mins.

I think just concentrating on racking miles up is going to get a bit boring, and i need to target something in order to keep me focused.

 Gah, you beat me by one mile! 

Yeah and it got me in trouble.

 

My R-hip problem returned. I can't even walk without it hurting. With the 16hr Roparun team training this weekend I booked an emergency appointment with my PT. Turns out it’s not my hip, but one of my gluteus muscles that attaches to the hip bone. In other words... it’s my butt! I’m in for some very painful deep tissue massage treatments 3xweek, sigh. And he immediately told me off for skipping my monthly maintenance treatment since October. Yeah yeah, it’s all my own fault... Anyways, he wants me to cut back this week just to make sure I'll manage the relay run this weekend. Then we'll see how to go from there, depending on how my butt's behaving during and after the relay

I am also drawing a blank on butt jokes... feel better Dutchie. We all need to keep in mind how all of the muscles affect each other and how  issues in the hips (Dutchie) or ankles (me) can manifest themselves elsewhere...

 

Pretty mild weight training yesterday - did some rowing which I haven't done in awhile. Husband has been going to a trainer this spring with great results - the boot camp style stuff is really not my personality at all but...  I might try it after the running season is over.

 

4 miles done today

3 tomorrow

 

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AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Sorry, just a little primal scream to break the tension.  4 days to go.  6 AM flight tomorrow morning.  I'm already losing sleep, I can't imagine how bad I will be the night before the race.

Crabby: it's very frustrating cause I'm part of a team and feel like I'm letting the team down. They now only have 3 runners.

 

Test run, as advised by my PT.
It seemed to go well. Hip was a little painful at first, but as I warmed up the pain subsided and the hip was just noticeable.
However, with 3 kilometers left to go, I decided to do a little bit of speed work in the tree tunnel, to make up for a walk break when crossing the dike road: speed up for 5 trees (100 meters mabye?) and slow down again for 5 trees and repeat a couple of times. After about 8 times and nearly at the end of the tree tunnel, there was a sudden stabbing pain at the top of my hip where that butt muscle attaches to the hip bone, that made me cry out and stop. As I slowly started running again, the hip was definitely pretty painful, though it got a bit better by the end of my run. Guess I shouldn't have tried to do a teeny weeny bit of speed work, sigh.

Just walked about 2 kilometers to the vet and back with Spike and Spook for Spooky's annual check up and the hip wasn't feeling as bad as this morning. Guess what, Spooky lost weight and she's now under doctor's orders to eat more

Well... tough hill workout today... but I got through it.

I've been kinda down a bit... It's been a little hard getting started...  Part of it is a lack of sleep this week... I drove 8 hours Wednesday night... slept 2 hours, spent 4 hours doing stuff with my daughter... ran roughly 4 miles, and then was in a car again for 8.5 hours back... My butt still hurts...

I can see myself getting better... My weight loss has kinda stalled... I need to get that kick started again... still have 20+ lbs to lose...

Good Luck Heffa!!!

Get Better Dutchie... always sucks when it feels like one is letting the team down... I hope it all works out well...

Hooray for decent weather Crabby!

-Kelly

As by PT orders: easy running, no speeding, no striders. And I was wearing my CWX Stabilix tights. Had to have a potty break twice. And I only had two small coffees before the run.
Gosh, incredible 10K run Felt so easy too. First 5 minutes my hip hurt pretty badly, but then the pain subsided and the hip was only "very noticeable" throughout the whole run. I had Spooky off leash as much as possible to avoid her pulling me forward or aside, limiting any stress that might cause to my hip/butt. So now we'll see how my hip/butt is during the day.

I read a thread on a running forum where it said (I think it was Nobby who said it) to lift the knees higher cause that was more energy efficient and I know I don't do that much so throughout the run I kept telling myself to lift lift lift. Somehow, I was running faster without trying. Huh? I even had a couple of breaks for Spooky off/on/off/on leash, and to pick up someone's school ID. I'll mail that one to the school on Monday.