Tuesday: another day off
Weds: 45 mins, ~11 miles on the bike, indoors of course
Thurs: nothing?
Friday? I think nothing?
Saturday: 60 min and 4mi trail run with TH, then just over 2hrs on trainer (40 miles!)
Sunday: 60 mins on trainer (18 miles) and ~2.4 mile run
I can't remember if I did anything Thurs or Fri, and it doesn't matter really. Well it does. I don't know why, but it does.
I quickly recovered from the race. Monday was a painful day for the quads, Tuesday was better but I still had trouble sitting, Weds was notable better with a little quad tightness, by Thursday I felt great was hesitant to run, Friday was like it never happened. Yeah, right.
After a looooong day at work Friday TH texted about running Saturday morning. Oh yes! I answered without really thinking about it. We just did 56-some minutes and her Garmin read 3.9 miles. It was all new-to-me trails in CCP that seemed to be little bitty loops wandering around and over each other. The trees and leaves were a bright golden yellow, the hills were short and fast, and the conversation great :)
For whatever reason I came home and wanted more, but my right hip was unhappy. It didn't hurt before or during the run, but it's not too hard to connect it to the run. So what do I do when I have energy to burn, an ankle that is still healing, wonderful weather, and time on my hands. Indoor cycling :( If I'm getting tired of it, I can't tell. But what's gonna happen in January after weeks of this? I'll be hating it! So why am I doing it now?
Because the ankle is not healed yet. Don't be fooled by it's "hey I feel good let's do more" feeling, don't buy into the pain-free stride and step. I was sharply reminded of this Sunday morning while volunteering at the RnR race. I went to sweep a water cup off the street with my left foot and stupidly swiped it to the left, thereby turning my foot under (like an ankle roll... DUH....) and OMG that hurt! And kept hurting for awhile.
Nuts. NutsNutsNutsNuts.
I had some crazy idea about hitting the 1000mi running mark on my birthday (only 5 days away!) but I'm pushing for an injury if I go for that. My right hip still hurts and the ankle is still injured.
Which brings me to my next topic! I'm still shopping for my 50-miler race and I think I have one picked out. And better still, I think I have a 60K prep race picked out too!
So I need to heal and rest. I don't want to look back a few months from now and wonder why I didn't just sit back for a few weeks to heal up and prevent burn-out. It's hard to look forward and see how that could happen when I feel so good right now. But it can happen. Now is the time to rest up and recovery. Get life back in order. Let goals and plans and
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