Long Run Disaster
Very eventful weekend. Saturday was the double tempo at Lincoln with 2 loops of 4.6 on the hilly course. The first one was solo at 5:24, 5:32, 5:34, 3:10 (.6), 5:12 in which I tried to just hit a marathon type effort with easy effort and controlled breathing. My left shin and right quad were bugging me but nothing crazy, just thought it was tight. I then jogged around 24 minutes and waited for the rest of group and did a 23:07 with Justin and Brad. The breakdown was 5:03, 5:13, 5:06, 3:01, 4:42. This was the effort I was looking for and it felt really good. Unfortunately on the evening shake-out run around lake boon my right quad and left shin started killing me. They both tightened up around 3 miles which made the last two miles tough.
Sunday was supposed to be a 24 miler on the course but about 12 miles in it became apparent I was doing some damage so I stopped at 15 after 1:42 of running. I was not too happy about it but I do not want to throw away all the work I have done to this point because I want 9 more garbage miles. They would have done more harm than good. I iced a lot last night and hope to be ok at the lunch time run. If I am still sore I may just bike or ellipical train if that is pain free.
Kind of a downer because the weeks training went so well. Maybe a sign of a little bit of over training. This week I will try to be about 110 miles.
That's all I got.