RUN 4 miles in ??, with walking not included in distance, 12x 40s in 8:20-8:40 m/m
BIKE COMMUTE to track, to lab from FP: 6.8-ish miles
Rain overnight, rain in the morning, rain off and on all day. And a full moon this afternoon! So my kinda day.
Which naturally started off with running. Bike to track, stiff warm up to my newly downloaded Tool song 46&2, and shake out the pains, BE joins and we map out a "run 400, walk 100" sequence.
I focused on run form, ignoring the pains in the right hip flexors, which didn't hurt like an injury pain but rather like a new-muscle-use pain. If that makes sense. Does to me.
We had trouble calculating the distances for these intervals. Tried and failed, lol, and I gave up and used the garmin and counted intervals by pace. All felt good, with light rain and the field sprinklers leaving us drippy by the end. Talked about Tom Hanks movies, run form, the pros/cons of landfill vs recycling vs incineration. Always interesting, I realize how limited my experience is with the rest of the world on days like today.
Bike home, dripping in the kitchen to get some food, shower, dog walk, leave for brief stop to lab, then off to Dr L.
I start off with news of my D2D race. I describe the upper left hip pain (he says it's core, not really hip, with glut med and etc), the way pains 'come and go' and fade out a few miles in once I'm warmed up. His concern -- that I'm not recovering fast enough and there's some metabolic thing going on. His definition of metabolic being thyroid, rheumatoid, etc, not just nutritional. Something keeping me from bouncing back.
He works on quads, they are tight (and I could feel it) as measured by a quad stretch of heel to butt. Both legs, I was bruising by the time I drove back to lab.
I took a chance and mentioned the 100K. I tried to justify it by saying "it's flat" and "it has a 33 hour cut-off" and "it'll be easy" and he wasn't buying it. So a discussion. He pointed out that me 1-1.5 week recovery form D2D indicates that 6 hours is my "load limit". What my body can handle right now. And going out to run 400% more (as in 33 hours) was way more than my body is ready for. Pointing out that I didn't plan on being there 33 hours, maybe only 15, didn't help. That stupid grin kept coming back, I did better with it this time.
He conceded that I wasn't going to be swayed, and instead advised on what to do. That once my muscles fail the joints will take the load --> injury. That I need to pay attention to what's going on as the hours accumulate. I wish I had a recording, and I wish I could convey what he said in better detail.
He also said I should be working with Jeff, even if only a few times before this race (oh and I certainly did NOT mention the upcoming 100 miler) to get whatever benefits I can to rebalance and get ahead of some of my issues. So I'm thinking on that.
I really enjoyed working with Jeff. If I go back now I see two issues that will get to me. He was always a step ahead of me in the mental game. I'd think I did a great race or workout and he could see the holes in my argument and punch a hole right thru it. I'm certain the 100K and the 100M are NOT going to be advisable, and I know he's right (along with Dr L and Dr B) and that's what that stupid grin really says and I hate going to someone for their advice and then not take it. And I've Jeff tell me a story about another athlete (at least it was told to me that way, coulda been about me?) who didn't take his advice, and he said he wasn't mad about that rather that he was disappointed. oooh, that's worse than being mad, IMO. I've been turning back on advice a lot lately with people I really trust. I don't know why I'm doing it.
Second, I hate seeing that I've backslid in my running and biking. And going back to Jeff will mean I'll have to face the strength and balance and movement losses over the past 9 months. I'll have to start over again to some degree, and that eats at me. I want to rush through it and catch back up.
So I'm thinking.
Also -- third day with no M. Go Bee!
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