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October 5, 2005
Faster than the fog
This morning's weather was just like yesterday--not too warm temperature wise (58 or 59 degrees) but incredibly humid and misty. I knew Mary and I would not be too comfortable cardio-wise doing our workout this morning, but what can you do?
Although my psoas/groin thing felt better yesterday and seemed fine walking around later in the day, it had totally locked up again when I left to go meet Mary this morning. I'm sure a little Active Release Therapy would do the trick, but I'm too poor to splurge on it right now and I don't have a massage therapist/ART person I like here in Boston. It does loosen up as I run, but I have to start out at a snail's pace and my range of motion is majorly limited until it eases up.
Anyway, Mary and I jogged up to the Tufts track, complaining about the weather (me) and how tired we were (both of us.) We were a cheery bunch! Our workout was 5 by a mile at tempo pace with a minute of (standing) rest in between each one. It was hard to find our pace at first but we did a good job on the first one and were fairly conservative. Then we got faster on each of the next 3 and, as Mary astutely noticed, they all felt the same despite the fact that we were cutting down the mile time by a few seconds each time. We picked it up to more like 10K pace for the last one, more for variety's sake than anything else. We were very proud of ourselves for getting through a long workout and sticking to our plan. Jogging home, we were both pretty tired and I was dreading sitting in class for 3 hours. (We had interesting speakers today, so it ended up fine.) But thanks to Mary for helping me through that workout--she will be away next week for work and I will miss her company.
After school and work today I lifted for about 45 minutes, trying to avoid things that bother my groin, and then I ran part of what the MIT girls were running for practice. My legs were totally dead--it was quite painful. I only ran a little more than 4 because I felt so crappy--but one of the assistant coaches was happy to just do that with me. I am just getting to know her but she is really cool. She just came to MIT after coaching at Tulsa and before that Minot State in ND. She was an NAIA national champion in several distance events, I believe.
I just got REALLY tired and I have some work to do, so I will go prioritize. Or sleep.
Posted by becky at October 5, 2005 8:30 PM
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Posted by: Aalap at October 6, 2005 9:19 AM
Hey, I thought I'd check up on your blog since I saw you at practice yesterday.... Coach Brooks knows a good ART guy in Waltham, I believe, or Wayland, whichever is closer (it's just past Newton). He's even persuaded the guy to come to campus sometimes to work on our athletes, maybe you can get in on that.
Oh, and a late L'shanah tovah...
Posted by: Alisha at October 6, 2005 3:56 PM