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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Once More ...

This past week was a challenge for me as far as my running goes. Tuesday the wind was blowing 25-30 mph (not gusts!) and made my run a strong resistance training. It was a beautiful day but exhausting. My schedule was to run 4 miles Tuesday and 6 Wednesday, but the weather was to be very cold on Wed. so I swapped the runs. Friday I ran my long run for the week. I reached another distance goal ... 12 miles! I know this may seem ho-hum for some of you, but this is great for me. I'll have to say it wasn't as easy as the 11 miler the week before. My left hip began bothering me at the start, then it quit, then it started up again on the 11th mile until I finished. This is the first time I've experienced shin splints (per my husband) but I slowed down some and it subsided. That never bothered me any more after then. But my hip hurt/ached the rest of the day and the following morning. It has totally stopped and I figure it was in a healing process and got well. Next week will be my last long run before the half marathon. My plan is to go to the Longleaf Trace and run there. It is a perfect path and Kent can ride his bike while I run.

1 comment:

jeff and rebecca said...

Sorry about all of your ailments (personal and computer). Will you all be avaialble on March 5th for a short camp up at Clarkco or will you be running somewhere?? Let me know. We are planning a quick trip there to kick off the season. Dr. Martin and his family will be there also. Just thougt it would be fun for us all to go and thought we might invite some others to come up for the day on Saturday and have a big fellowship or something. Love you! Talk to you soon. Yall be careful.

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