BIKE: 1hr and 18.5 miles, 10 min intervals with high cadence
RUN 53 minutes and some-odd seconds, 6 miles
I switched the Tuesday and Wednesday bikes so that I could focus on a great track session. This might be a good change for me to keep.
The ride was to this awful movie (some Resident Evil sequel) that was all action and no plot. Great for riding, lots of motivating fight sequences and music with no need to pay attention. I focused on keeping it ABP and alternated big and mid rings.
The run was in the COLD 30F fresh dusting of SNOW! WTF! DH is out of town in the 70+F degree desert and I'm here freezing my butt off. OK once I got running it wasn't that bad...but dammit warm up already!
The goal was 3x 1.5 mi intervals at mid-6 pace, but after the first 1200 my inner right quad muscle that hurt in Saturday's race started hurting again. I can't tell if it's injury pain or tightness pain. Either way, it really too the steam out of my sails. It set in motion that "niggle" doubt -- can I keep going or will I make it worse? Should I go home now and rest it? Am I fine, just keep going? Arg!
So I did one interval on the snowy track (I thought it ironic that an injury like this should come after running on the snow and twisting something...) in a pace that I think was in the 6:50s. Then I did a long recovery to see if things improved. After a mile they didn't and suddenly running on the track wasn't so interesting anymore. I took off around the neighborhood for the last few miles. The discomfort seemed to come and go, was I changing my stride? Climbing or descending? Just not paying attention to it? Couldn't tell.
Nuts. The muscle feels OK walking around, heck the past few hours it's a non issue. Foam rolling! Stretching!
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