« Summary - week 13 of 31 | Main | Mass-aaaaaaah-ge »

October 14, 2004

"Wolf!"

Whatever it was it went away. I'm a little ashamed of even writing the words "I'm hurt" in light of what some of you are going through. In my defense, though, it actually got worse yesterday before it got better today. After aborting the workout on Tuesday night I committed to taking yesterday completely off and to not run until the pain was completely gone. When I woke up yesterday I couldn't even flex my foot to walk; I had to drag my foot through. By the time I got to work I didn't have to drag it through but I was still limping. As I sat at my desk I worked on flexing my foot and massaging the sore area, and by the time I left work I could only feel it if I flexed my foot in a certain way. This morning it didn't hurt at all, but I decided it'd be better to give it a little more time, so I decided to wait until tonight to run. And then when I ran tonight I couldn't even tell that anything had happened. I'm so thankful, but pretty perplexed. Whatevah.

So tonight I got through the workout I aborted on Tuesday: 4x 1600 at 10K pace with 400 rest. It was pretty boring, except for the one mile that I actually had company in some friends who were running a mile at the same pace. I have a great 10K pace in 6:40; each quarter is 1:40 which means a 25s 100 and a 50s 200. Lots of feedback. I was just a little fast on each - 6:36, 33, 34, 34. Felt pretty good the whole time, so hopefully I wasn't too fast. My 10K pr pace, from last year, is more like 6:37 pace anyway.

I'm going to try to go 20 this weekend. Good time to do it, too, since I got a little extra rest this week.

Posted by jenandmats at October 14, 2004 9:19 PM

Comments

Yeay! Glad to hear you're running again. :)

Posted by: Leilani at October 15, 2004 10:35 AM

I like your entry title :-)

Posted by: Alison at October 15, 2004 11:47 AM

Up and running again, good to hear it! Is your buddy still headed out here for the M2M this weekend? Meghan

Posted by: Meghan at October 15, 2004 2:30 PM

Andy was in the dog house on Tuesday night for his nearly complete lack of sympathy for my situation. He told me that I'd be better in no time and that I should quit feeling sorry for myself. And he was right.

Meghan ... I assume that my friend (Joe Basham) is still running tomorrow. I haven't heard otherwise. I can't wait to see how he does; I know he's trained so well.

Good luck to you, too!

Posted by: jenandmats at October 15, 2004 8:43 PM