3 mi. / 4.82 km., low 40s temp, low 30s windchill
Jogged down to the track for my intervals. First interval was supposed to be a mile. I could barely crack 10mm pace. I gave up after a lap. My legs were too stiff from yesterday's LSD run. It just wasn't going to happen. So I ran backwards for 100 yards and skipped for 120, x 2. I couldn't get my skips waist high. Too much effort.
OK, so that was two times around the track. It wasn't grooving, I thought to myself, so I'll just do a bunch of hill repeats. I can do those nice and slow and it'll still give me some speedwork-like benefit. Before I even got to the top of the first climb, I started to feel the outside of my left knee strain a bit.
OK, so I'll just do a nice 4-5 mile recovery run, I decided. Get in a little aerobic conditioning. . . . Nope. I kept stopping to try to stretch and massage out the knee strain, but it kept coming back after running a few more blocks. So I just came home--exactly three miles as I hit the driveway. I don't even want to know what the overall pace was.
This outing confirmed that yesterday's attempt at 10 miles was a bit premature. But no biggy; it was still worth it, even if it did screw up my Assorted Runs workout today. Any time I'm outside and barefoot is a good thing.
Tomorrow I'll do my Chest and Upper Arms ST workout and then see what kind of running shape I'm in on Tuesday. I doubt I'll be ready for my first shot at cruise intervals, so maybe just another leisurely recovery-type run. We'll see. I was hoping this would be the week I could fully implement my extremes-to-target program, but that might be another week or two away, hopefully before first snow fall in any case. If nothing else, today's run got rid of the last lingerings of my hangover from last night's dinner party .
Jogged down to the track for my intervals. First interval was supposed to be a mile. I could barely crack 10mm pace. I gave up after a lap. My legs were too stiff from yesterday's LSD run. It just wasn't going to happen. So I ran backwards for 100 yards and skipped for 120, x 2. I couldn't get my skips waist high. Too much effort.
OK, so that was two times around the track. It wasn't grooving, I thought to myself, so I'll just do a bunch of hill repeats. I can do those nice and slow and it'll still give me some speedwork-like benefit. Before I even got to the top of the first climb, I started to feel the outside of my left knee strain a bit.
OK, so I'll just do a nice 4-5 mile recovery run, I decided. Get in a little aerobic conditioning. . . . Nope. I kept stopping to try to stretch and massage out the knee strain, but it kept coming back after running a few more blocks. So I just came home--exactly three miles as I hit the driveway. I don't even want to know what the overall pace was.
This outing confirmed that yesterday's attempt at 10 miles was a bit premature. But no biggy; it was still worth it, even if it did screw up my Assorted Runs workout today. Any time I'm outside and barefoot is a good thing.
Tomorrow I'll do my Chest and Upper Arms ST workout and then see what kind of running shape I'm in on Tuesday. I doubt I'll be ready for my first shot at cruise intervals, so maybe just another leisurely recovery-type run. We'll see. I was hoping this would be the week I could fully implement my extremes-to-target program, but that might be another week or two away, hopefully before first snow fall in any case. If nothing else, today's run got rid of the last lingerings of my hangover from last night's dinner party .