It's Sunday afternoon of wildcard weekend, and thankfully I have some football to watch while I am icing down almost everything below both of my knees.
On top on continuing to have some pain in both of my toes, I've been dealing with what i think is runner knee in my left knee for wuite a while and now I have what I think are shin splints in my right shin for the last week and a half or so.
This all came to a head yesterday when i was out scheduled for a 12 mile run in Millbury and into Sutton near Singletary Lake. My goal was to run about nice and slow and keep my heart rate in check. I felt like I ate well and drank enough fluids the night before. woke up and went out early for a run with some beautiful weather, about 40 degrees and partly sunny. The first 4-5 miles went pretty well and I was ahead of my pace the first 2 plus miles, down a pretty good hill and kept about what I thought I should be doing through the first 4-5. Then my heart rate got up pretty high and it was a struggle to keep it in a good range for the rest of the run. I have to learn to slow doen even further and run these long runs to my heart rate rather than any specific time.
So with all this with about a mile to go, and half way up a killer hill, I had to walk to a short distance, and again about a quarter mile later becuase my body wouldn't let me do it. Both my lungs as well as my knee acting up with with the runners knee made it very tough. I have to swallow a little of the Patriots preverbial "Humble Pie" as this running and training is definately one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I'm now starting to question my ability to finish in under 4 hours like I want. Hopefully yesterday was just a bad day and I can get in a better run at a better pace next week. I am going to back off my midweek running this week, maybe strictly just on the bike to give the body a chance to recover for next weeks 13-14 mile run.
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