Sean's Running Blog

Lungs are still clogged and the pace was quite slow this morning as I had a weird pain in my lower left leg so i took it easy and stopped two miles early. I'm wondering if it's my shoes. I just realized I have about 800 miles on this pair which is 300 more than I normally put on a pair of shoes. So they are going to be retired today and I will start using a newer pair.

Shin is back to 100% but the left calf is not. I laid off the double yesterday to give it a rest and waited until things warmed out upside before running today. I ran the first mile very slowly..8:00 pace. The rest were at 7:00. Nothing hurt until Mile 6. I stopped to stretch and massage it every mile after it. I know I'm over compensating because my back hurts a bit now. I'm going to see my PT tomorrow morning. I'm supposed to do a cut-down tempo run tomorrow but I'm not so sure that will happen.

It was below frezzing this morning so with my calf issues I decided to stay indoors and run six miles on the treadmill. No pain at all but I don't know if that's because the distance was far shorter than normal or because I was running on a moving surface.

I saw my PT this morning and he recommended cutting back this week and eliminating doubles and any speed work. That pain me but not as much as a full blown injury would. So I'm shooting for a mid-70s week with no hard training. I was probably do a light week anyway. Planning on running a 20k on March 22nd so I need to get healthy for that.

I'm done for the week. My PT and coach pled with me to hang it up for the week as I have strained my calf muscle. I guess i risk more by pushing it than by hanging it up for a few days and hitting it again on Monday. It pains me to back off but it's important. I will try and do some biking the rest of the week to keep me from going crazy.

Just "ran" 4 miles on the elliptical. That definitely works a different set of muscles. According to the machine I did the 4 miles in 35 minutes. Man, I thought a treadmill was boring.

Another no run day. It's killing me. Taking away running is like taking away breakfast or breathing. Did 40 minutes and 10.1 miles on the stationary bike today. The last half I pushed my heart rate to the 130s trying to have some semblance of a workout. Monday I get to run again on a flat soft surface.