Chronicle my marathon training here.

Saw the Surgeon. Had the diagnostic injection. It was positive for the hip area so am no waiting on scheduling of the surgery. :( but :) at the same time.

big one today. Actual training was fine. I did the pool run and also ran one plain old mile (Did some training and spin class as well, ugh)

But PT told me today that he didn’t think the pain was going to go away with PT. So I went back to the surgeon, and and scheduled for another hip injection tomorrow morning.

I am perturbed. I am training hard. I am making progress, all my races are planned out and such, I have all the time off approved. BUT now, it appears that I may have to endure the hip surgery, and that it may not fix the issue. Grrr.

I attempted ot do a 35 min tempo run. I made it 25 minutes. I’m thinking my pace should have been a tiny bit slower for success in the complete run. But given that I did it on the treadmill, which is not my forte, and very very early in the morning with very sore legs, I’m giving myself an A for effort. It is an improvement from the last one.

I started this week with a 4 mile run. It was a little odd because I really did not want to run, I’d not slept well and was feeling groggy.
My pace turned out to be one of the best ones this entire year. yay.
So. that will be the longest run I do until Saturday when I have a 10K race. Still hoping to PR in the race. BUt as far as the Marathon training, it would appear I am on track for the November race and on track to do fairly well.. Whoo Hoo.

I did my last run of week two this week. I admit, I did not do ALL the runs in week two. My Physical therapist was quite irritated with my 3 miles of hill repeats, which really set off my injury again.

I ran a “fartlek” today (Swedish for speed play) and I regret it now. The speedy portions set off the pain in my hip again, but it was rather exciting to find myself going along for over a minute at an 8:45mm pace.

Resting the hip and stretching, rest day on Sunday and restart on Monday….

Got off early from work today due to low census. wahooo.

Used that opportunity to go run 3 more miles on the treadmill and do a weights workout.

I feel pretty lousy now. PT kicked my hip last night. muliple things ache and hurt. I do have to go to work tomorrow, so a rest day is in order.

Still trying to decide if I want to bother racing on Saturday. The way I am feeling I doubt it would be a PR, and hey…I could do a more fun run on my own, I think. We’ll see.

Next week I get to do some pool running instead of hill running. Bleh.

Simple three miler today. Did a regular route and found it to be somewhat difficult as there are several hills enroute, and my hammies let me know they remembered the HIll drill of the other day!
Weather has been nice.

Hip gave a little pain. I have physical therapy this afternoon, will hopefully remember all my questions….

3 miles of up and down.
I did the same drill last week and had little success. This week, the weather was cooler, so that helped, and maybe I am a bit stronger.
20 repeats. 3 miles. Left knee and hip feel not so hot. Luckily I think there are only 2 more weeks of hills before we switch to intervals.
I think the rest day between runs really helped. I have really got to pay attention to my schedule as it comes up.
Still, this workout felt solid. RUnning hills is sort of strange as its not like running for time or speed it really is just Up and down and trying to focus on activating certain muscles on the up and not hurting knees etc on the down…

Not the most auspicious start.

Firstly: My physical therapy eval was Friday. I was told not to run over 4 miles. My long run this week was supposed to be 7.

Today I did 4.40 in about 52 minutes. I was going to do 6, but frankly, I think my legs are still tired from that 5 days in a row extravaganza. Plus, I am aware that the PT may be correct. I have 29 weeks.

Doing my PT exercises but I think for the 10K I have planned in 2 weeks, I will take 2 days of rest before the race!!!

with a very tired legged 3 mile run. I had really tired legs this morning, so I went at a slow pace and was quite cursing all the little hills and inclines along the way.

These miles in the end I think are junk miles. Hopefully they will end up being good for something in the end.

Whew, sweaty sweaty.