six plus …

New shoes and new socks.  Armed with two mortars of propel-spiked water and a packet of shot bloks I headed out to the 3-mile mark.  Passed Lesley and Nancy at the 2-mile mark who wre on their way back.  Walked on past the 6 mile mark while I drank and ate.
Turned back and ran fron [...]

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new shoes and socks …

4 miles on Saturday, 6 miles on Sunday, strength training today and a new pair of shoes and some fancy socks and some jello cubes.
I’m still not over the hip-thigh thing, however, I’m listening hard to the bones.  They tell me easy does it.   
So I headed out to Dick Pond and bought my marathon shoes [...]

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softly softly catchee monkey

4 miles on the GWT this morning.  41′ 35″, that’s a pace of 10′ 24″.  Not bad considering I walked about a mile of it.  I still feel a little stress in that damned thigh muscle.
Taking it slowly.

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crawling back

I’ve been doing strength exercises but I’ve not run while I’ve been nursing the sore thigh / hip.  But today … I hit the Great Western Trail again.  I started out full of anxiety and ended full of hope!!!!!
No pre-stretch (I read that in Chi Running) I walked at first to loosen up and my [...]

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i know i’ve been missing

Injured !@#$& !!!
I’ve had a nagging problem around my left hip / thigh area, and I haven’t run for almost two weeks.  I’m sure it’s something like a hip flexor.  Anyway I determined rest, rest, rest with a little ice from time to time.
Today it feels OK, although I have a little soreness around upper [...]

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