Brickety brick

BIKE indoors 50 mins, with 20' "effort"
RUN outdoors! 3 miles total walk/run with 1.8 miles run and 1.2 miles walked
BIKE COMMUTE 9.4 miles

I've been looking forward to being able to call it a run/walk instead of a walk/run. I'm probably toeing the threshold for that, but haven't fully crossed it. One foot on each side, maybe.

Welcome to day to of my "training plan". A 50' min bike with 20' WU, 20' TT test effort, 10' CD. I'm not ready for a real TT effort (mentally or physically) so I did an "effort". A "pushed" pace.

The run? Ahhhh it's still cold, well maybe cool, and the sun is out and the flowers are blooming and the birds....it's SPRING! Yay! I run up into the Compton Heights area and noted how their hostas seem bigger and their grass greener. What, is it warmer up there or something?

My pace was in range of 9-10, cadence 168-173 average, and the HR a little higher than expect in the 135-145 range. Maybe from the biking prior?

Listened to my podcasts (of course, I'm totes addicted to having a voice in my ear at all times now) and I've recently started picking up running, ultra, and sport pods. I deleted most of them during the 2017 injury year. They reminded me too much of what I wasn't doing. So anyway I pulled up a past fave the Marathon Training Academy and listened to interview of female obstacle course racer who just came out of a year off due to injury! I found her blog and post The Injury Commandments. I'm reading and re-reading and amazed -- she's voicing fears and thoughts and mental stuff I've been battling.  Will take some time to digest, but here's a few gems so far.

I'm not running, I'm re-acclimating to the pounding and motions of running.
I'm afraid of not being what I used to be, to myself and to others.
This will take TIME and patience to get back. The "comeback" and glory and biggy races I've been planning for later this year might not happen.

More on this once digested.

Oh and the hip that hurt over the weekend, no pain during the day just a lot of those big pops when walking. The overnight pain while supine is back. Should I see Lytle? My right foot is also niggling still, it doesn't have the out-of-place feeling right now, but the super-mild PF feeling is there, along with a mild discomfort in the medial ankle-to-sole area. And my back, the lower area, isn't as fluid as it could be. Or I'm over-focusing. And I need new shoes!