Training Log Archive: kweinmann

Hilly run today so I wasn't running too fast. My hip starting bothering me again during this run, although it was pretty fine during my long run on friday. I think maybe hills make it worse. Hopefully it's not too bad to be able to run tomorrow.

This was a good long run today! I did it as a shorter loop that I ran twice, with the goal being that the second loop was faster than the first. I did accomplish this, although it is a little hard to compare because during the first loop I feel like I had to stop at a lot more traffic lights and there was a storm that consisted of a lot of wind and rain - didn't see that once coming when I left. I got to see an amazing rainbow though once the storm was over so that made me pretty happy. Overall I consider the run a success even though I finished it soaking wet and it was sunny by the time I got home.

Easy run today, my legs were still slightly sore, especially at the beginning, but really didn't feel too bad. I can't believe it's the last day of June. Here's to July being a good month!

My attempt at a tempo run today. It didn't go horrible. My body was kind of sore from the gym yesterday, but I don't think that really affected my running. I started out with a mile warm up, then tempoed for 20 minutes and just jogged the rest of my route. The tempo I was just trying to run decently fast. I have done practically no speedwork and actually no racing in the past...long time...so I really don't have a good idea of pace at all right now. I ran 2.72 miles during the 20 tempo minutes which works out to a pace of 7:21 per mile. That's pretty good I think for having no idea of pacing and having done very little fast running recently. Just more room for improvement anyway, right?

First time going to the gym by myself and it was actually not bad at all. I was much more efficient than usual because I didn't have to wait at all and I doubled up some of my exercises. I will note that I could definitely tell that I hadn't been to the gym in a week.
Squat/Calf Raises (#95)
Curl to Overhead Press (#15 per side)
Bench Press (#65)
Deadlifts (#115)
Rows (#25)
Flies (#20 per side)
Tricep Extension (#10)
Weighted Lunges (#40)

Planks: 2:15 middle, 1:38 per side
25 crunches
15 side crunches (per side)
15 holding scissors (3 sec each)
15 side plank dips (per side)
15 leg lifts
20 Russian twists
10 single leg bridges (per side)

So I was hoping that I would feel awesome running after taking yesterday completely off...which didn't quite turn out to be true. I felt okay for most of the run besides my quads feeling tired, which I'm not sure what that is all about. However, that was not really the issue. So on Saturday during my long run the outside of my right hip was hurting a little, but with the extreme tiredness in my legs being the main focus, I didn't really pay it much mind. It did hurt later in the day walking around and just from general movements, but I was hoping I just kind of tweaked it. The best way I can describe what it felt like was that I could feel a tendon or ligament rubbing over the joint when I moved my leg. Anyway, I asked my friend about it and she told me I should ice and take a couple of days off - which I promptly ignored, partly because today it didn't hurt at all after a few minutes of walking. Ignoring her, I can attest now, was a mistake. My hip felt fine for about the first 4 miles of my run and then it just didn't. It was pretty sudden and I'm not really sure what happened, but for the last mile and a half or so it was hurting a decent amount, and during my cool down walk I was having a hard time not limping slightly. So yeah, maybe I should have just taken a couple of days off. I wasn't planning on running tomorrow anyway, but I'm gonna take close observation of how it feels and what hurts to see if I do need to take a couple of days off now, because clearly taking one rest day did not fix it.