Running against the wind, week of 4/21~

[alpinerabbit]

35 min s-l-o-w-j-o-g along the banks of the Danube in Vienna yesterday. Still tip-toeing the line to where my shins are getting worse.
I have a 5.8K relay leg to run on May 17; I´ll do whatever I want that day even if it means another no-run month.

I went back to the hotel room to do hot-cold showers on shins (no dip pool by the sauna); that made them feel real good.

Again, running makes it better before it comes back the next morning - lucky muscle ache is not getting worse, it is just like a transient, deep ache that moves around the shin / tibialis area, sometimes it´s a burning feeling too but it is the muscle itself.. I need another series of trigger pt. massage there, and all the way along my right leg up to the hip.

it´s so weird all these little achy overloaded spots are on my right leg. Leg length, could it have something to do with it? I´m getting paranoid.

[Kimmyt]

I'm so happy. Started increasing by 10% last week and I feel GREAT. Today did almost 3 miles on the dreadmill, and at no point did I feel bad. In fact, my legs felt great. I also got on the bike for the first time yesterday (I know, it's shameful), and no residual pain except for the usual early season butt-adjustments.

So this week its three runs at 2.9 miles and then next week I can do a 5k! Once I get to 3 mile runs I'm very psyched because I can run outside during work. I hate the treadmill, especially in this spring weather when it's warm and balmy and sunny out.

I'm also psyched to ramp up the miles because I've been having a bad body image week, aided by the possibility that my pants I'm wearing today may have shrunk. I feel like I gained weight and feel gross all around, but I don't really think I have, so hopefully it's the pants.

Cross my fingers, anyway.


K.

[teigyr]

I ran almost five miles of hills last night. I felt a bit sluggish but did about the same as I always do time and distance-wise so perhaps it was in my mind?

The strange thing was on the downhills, my HR was dropping faster than I've ever seen it. I guess I won't complain but my max was 11 bpm less than last week and my average was about 20 bpm lower. I'm not sore today so maybe I didn't push it enough.

Kimmyt, you DID was those pants in hot water, didn't you?

[roadie gal]

4 miles on the treadmill again, after an hour's bike on the trainer. It's snowing again so I'm inside.

I've done a the first week of my triathlon training plan without messing up. Yay!

[Kimmyt]

teigyr, i'm horrible about washing stuff so it wouldn't surprise me if they did shrink! the outer layer is like wool type stuff and the inner lining is poly. The reason I think they shrunk is because the liner is sticking out from the bottom, so it seems like the top layer shrunk. At least that's what I'm telling myself!

And congrats on the quick recovery during your hill run. Back before I hurt myself, it was so weird because I really enjoyed hill runs, it would suck while you were ascending but it felt soo good on the downhill.

[rocknrollgirl]

Hi girls,
I did a swim run workout combo today. It seems to work really welll for me. I must get really warmed up in the pool and then it hurts less to run.

I came home from the pool and did a 1/2 mile circut, slow on flat, hard up a hill, slow down the hill fast on flat. Repeated 5 times and cooled down. It was good.

Stretch, roll, ice, dinner, Deadliest Catch on the VCR and I am still hungry....

Giving blood for the very first time tomorrow morning, so no workouts tomorrow or Friday.

[Wahine]

Teigyr - sounds to me like you have a really great training plan that's starting to fall into place.

I got to run a 3 mile time trial today. 22:57. I'm happy, my leg is good, I'm aware of it but no pain and I ran hard enough to get a little pukey. That's always a good sign.