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So far it's beautiful outside - cool, windy and cloudy -but the black clouds are gathering and the forecast is for thunderstorms. My back is better, but we have company coming, so I probably won't run this afternoon. How about the rest of you?
PAD - I hope the foot is better. Do you know PF stretches? Do you have a ball to roll the foot over?
We had rain here this morning and overcast for the rest of the day I think.
Ginny - I don't know of any specific stretches for PF. I have a lacrosse ball I use for rolling.
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Morning Pens! Today I volunteered at a NYRR race. I was at mile 5ish of a 10k. It was amazing because the elites passed by about 22 or 23 minutes into the race. The back of the packers didn't pass for a long long time later. The race started at 9am, and I was freed from my post (at mile 5) around 10:50.
I haven't been running recently. My sciatica is flaring up and I don't like running when I can't feel my right leg/foot all that well. I can do it but (a) my back hurts and (b) it requires a lot more concentration when I'm feeling right sided numbness in my leg. The rest of the day I'll probably relax and look at more real estate listings. I'm thinking of starting to go through and purge extra stuff from the apartment since we'll be moving sometime in September.
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Jill - I know someone from another forum who volunteered for that race as well. My only volunteer gig was at registration. On a nice day, it would be fun to be out in the course and watching the variety of runners. Sorry about the sciatica. I get it occasionally - mostly when we're travelling and I sit too long without getting up and walking around.
PAD - I think that any exercises that stretch the feet, like rising on your toes or dropping your heels or picking up towels with your toes, might help the PF if it's not too bad. It's such a variable problem: some people can get back to normal activity quickly and some get sidelined for a long time. I've known some who ended up with the night splint. I hope you've caught it quickly.
I ended up doing a short test run this afternoon after the rain stopped. Once again I learned something I already knew: running after a big meal, even a few hours afterwards, is really hard. I felt like a lumbering hippo and at one point I thought I was going to lose my lunch. My back behaved and my hamstrings/pelvis gave only low level twinges, but it was a hard 4.3 miles.
Morning! I swear I posted yesterday but I must not have hit submit, grrr. Ran 8 on the TM last night, 15 coming up on the TM soon.
Ginny, I am glad you were able to run after the thunderstorm forecast.
PAD, hope you did not get rained in as well.
Jill, sorry about your sciatica.
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Race for Humanity 5K this morning with DW. Inaugural event for the Illinois Holocaust Museum, which is about a mile from our house so we could walk there. Perfect morning and it was a good first race with a few hundred runners. No results but we were under 30:00 which was my goal. No PR.
Glad the back is better, Ginny.
Sorry about the sciatica, Jill. Good luck house hunting.
Hi PAD and Docket.
Jerry - good job on the 5k. Don't you use a GPS watch?
Damaris - good luck with the 15. On the TM?
The Beer Runners are having an afternoon run today, which is unusual. I'll join them in a little while for four very windy miles. At least it will be flat, since it's in town.
Yes. No outside runs until December if we are lucky, November.
Jerry - good job on the 5k. Don't you use a GPS watch? Damaris - good luck with the 15. On the TM? The Beer Runners are having an afternoon run today, which is unusual. I'll join them in a little while for four very windy miles. At least it will be flat, since it's in town.
I do use GPS which showed 29:30. That's about a minute short of a PR. This was my 3rd 5K ever. Back to the HM's next weekend.