'Morning!!  Indeed, it is a lovely morning.  I did 5 easy miles around the high school track which ended up being an inadvertent progression run, and I tossed in 6 x 100 meter strides.  Speaking of 5 miles, I've got a 5 mile race tomorrow.  I have never done a 5 mile race.  I won't race it all out though...I'll be happy to run 7:30's and not injure myself.  It's a cancer run and Wife and I are doing it to support a friend of ours.  I have not done a run-only race in two months so it'll be fun to be back in that environment.

I've got a swim to do after work but those Friday night swims have a way of not getting done.

It was a lovely 72° here, but disgustingly humid, so it didn't feel as nice as it should have!

I ran 16 with 2mi w/u, 4x1mi @HMP/ 1mi @MP, 6mi "c/d." It was really supposed to be a ten-mile workout with just one mile w/u and c/d, but I needed more than one mile to get to the park, and I wanted to combine it with my long run anyway to kill two birds with one stone. I am now very tired because I got up too damn early. Before my alarm, even -- there were squirrels or something scrabbling around on the roof right over my bedroom and the sound woke me up. Don't they know every second of sleep is precious?!

I will be interested to see how Baboon showing up to a race and not racing it works out.

 

7 miles.

I've done a few of these.  It's usually a lot more fun!

 

I've done a few of these.  It's usually a lot more fun!

OK, fair enough. I've never tried it.

I'm beat after 8 last night. Slogged through 3 miles and just ended the misery there. I'll either do a LR on Sunday when I return from camping or just call this a cutback week. To be fair, marathon training hasn't quite started yet.

Today is "take your child to work day" at my work. A fun morning filled with science for DS and he is sooo excited! Although this morning he asked me which floor has the paleontologists. Sorry buddy, no dinosaur scientists at this pharma co

7:45am. Sports doc Eric, I explain the history and problem hams and he said he had the right PT for me, a 68 year old ultra runner, the guy who had fixed his leg problem... he said Farouk has “Magic fingers” and that “He’s a sadistic mother fucker!” 😮
Called Farouk and left a message, he called right back and said he had an opening now as he had a cancellation.

8:40 at PT... Farouk asked what body part, I said hamstring and he said “Boy am I going to make you squeal!” 😮

Really glad I started modestly doing cross ways massage of the hams back in May else today would have hurt more than it did.

Off to gym for a little pool mix... attempted run but that ain’t happenin’

7:45am. Sports doc Eric, I explain the history and problem hams and he said he had the right PT for me, a 68 year old ultra runner, the guy who had fixed his leg problem... he said Farouk has “Magic fingers” and that “He’s a sadistic mother fucker!” 😮
Called Farouk and left a message, he called right back and said he had an opening now as he had a cancellation.

8:40 at PT... Farouk asked what body part, I said hamstring and he said “Boy am I going to make you squeal!” 😮

Really glad I started modestly doing cross ways massage of the hams back in May else today would have hurt more than it did.

Off to gym for a little pool mix... attempted run but that ain’t happenin’

Oof.