Sunday was very windy and raining when I first got up so I decided to take the day off. Especially with the way my hamstrings felt on Saturday, all tight and sore. That's been niggling me ever since TYO marathon. A little later in the day though I had to go get my son from his first ever sleep over and since the weather had lightened, I decided to take the long way around and have a little run. After returning home I decided that it felt so good that I wanted to go out again and so I did.
Since we go to Hawaii this evening (Woo hoo!) I definitely wanted to run this morning before relaxing this week. I decided to start doing some runs recommended to me by my friend and club mate, Steve. Last year while training for the Nagano marathon, he suggested I do some runs where I get my HR to 80-90% of maximum for 60 minutes. These worked very well and eventually evolved in to the marathon paced runs I used to train for TYO. So this morning I got out for 7 miles with the middle five at an average pace of 7:06/mile. Not bad, I'll take it although I would have liked to have gone a little farther before my HR started to drift up and my hamstrings begged to differ. Anyway, I think I'll stick to some of these runs until I feel up to tackling Mr. Horwill once again.
See you in a week or so, all tanned and rested.
Have a good break mate and I think it's a good idea to take your mind off the Horwill stuff. Steve's advice is better than that.
ReplyDeleteAnd 7:06 is pretty good for a pre-vacation run! I probably wouldn't be able to focus on running the day I am leaving for a trip overseas.
Just found this on harmstring injuries. Good read.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, Ingo. Maybe the grade one strain. Not too serious though. Hopefully the rest I got last week will help.
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