Somewhat recovered from injury

Today was the second day of my first back-to-back days of running since the Hatfield-McCoy marathon. I’m running at a considerably more sane pace than 8 minute miles.

I have noticed that my body seems to be a little bit unfamiliar with running now. Still, 6.4 miles yesterday… below my established 8’50″ easy pace. Had to wrap in FreezeIT after. This morning, my first mile was rough, but 8’33″ pace overall for 8 miles. My heel and ankle hurt a little bit, but I’m actually feeling better after today’s workout than after yesterday’s.

• Guess my 20 miler time: I ran 6.29 miles in the first hour + highest mileage week in a year. This was not a set up for a good long run today: I had a mid-back spasm in the first mile of my 5-miler yesterday morning that was still bothering me this morning. [Managed to fight for a 9'22" pace yesterday] The first hour of the run didn't break 9:30......
• Reflecting on injury Here I am, for the second time in about 6 months.  My sacroiliac joint is messed up, and I'm fighting the urge to run. Okay.  I'm not fighting the urge at all.  I'm trying to pretend that everything is okay, and going out anyway.  That's the way it was on......
• Nice progressive pace run on a double-run day #twit2fit #running One pitfall that I've fallen into is not being able to push the pace as necessary on my runs.  The beauty of this run is that it was both the second run of the day and got me to 25 miles in two days: The first mile went off at......
• At a medium pace... 5.7 miles in 47:32 (8:22 pace) #twit2fit #running After weeks and weeks of building mileage and mostly running slowly, I'm ready to start testing the waters a little bit on what my legs actually have in them. If my mileage stays steady, it looks like my legs currently have roughly a comfortable 8:30 pace in them.  After a......
• The only way I'm going to avoid injury is to sit perfectly still. #running [Workout - 6 x 1/2 mile progressive intervals 3:26.9 and faster] [/caption] I've been pitying myself the last couple of weeks. On February 3, I finished off a stupid 26 mile in 24 hours stunt with an attempted tempo run that turned into a slow limp for the last 3......