First two days of posts....
Monday 10/4, a double day.
AM Run: 3 miles at recovery pace, 5:30AM with BOMF. Weather was decent for running, low 50s with moderate rain. My legs felt ok, though I felt somewhat tired in general. Not completely unexpected after running a tough 15K race the day before. My left leg which has been giving me trouble since last week barely hurt above "background noise" so I will continue to push through it.
PM Run: 8 Miles total: 7x800m with 2:30 rest (1 lap jog with a few seconds left over), 2 miles warm up, 1 mile cool down. ~5:30PM at Dundalk HS Track.
Splits: 2:33. 2:33, 2:35, 2:32, 2:34, 2:32, 2:36.
Weather was identical to the morning, low 50s with light rain. The track was wet but traction was good. I actually got there at about 4:30, but slept for 45 minutes in my car. I felt substantially better after that! For most of the workout, my shins hurt a bit and I felt sluggish, but clearly, it did not affect the splits. My last 800m workout yielded very similar results which I thought were a direct result of having an exceptional day. Achieving the same result with more repeats, on an "average" rather than "amazing" day proves that I have cut nearly 10 seconds off the splits in this workout. I was doing the same type of workout earlier in the year at about 2:42-2:46 pace.
My left upper thigh tightened a bit afterward, but it feels substantially better than last week, and no where near as bad is it did when it first sprung up in late May/early June. With a much higher volume and significantly less pain, the problem is healing, just slowly.
Tuesday 10/5
Customary rest day of "2010 Part II." It took some time to get used to a Tuesday rather than Friday off day, but rest is rest, that's for sure! The general tiredness I felt Monday is gone, and though my legs are not 100% (they never will be in this peak month of October), they continue to recover from the weekend.
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