An attempt to track the ups and downs and ins and outs of a boys attempt at, at best, becoming a semi-elite (thats at best) long distance runner

Friday, May 19, 2006

coming to end of week 1 - building back up to normal training

slowly getting used to training again. my right leg seems to have a number of different little things going on with it that I presume is compensation type knock on effects from the original right shin injury. the achilles is a little sore but nothing serious. the ankle feels weak as well. Ran a very slow 6 this morning... painfully slow really... it's tough running that slow on your own - i might need to start meeting up with people to run on my easy days just to chat and pass the time and take my mind off the slow mileage pace.

SLR tomorrow is Pentagon - Army Navy Dr. (12 miles). All concrete, but it'll be fun to run with a group of guys and go over 10miles for the first time since London. I'll probably do my standard 12mile loop down rock creek and up through glover archibald on sunday morning. I do like that loop and it was my daily morning run through so much of fall and winter. It'll be nice to do it again for the first time in about two and a half months. I'll probably arrive really early and put in a couple of miles warm up and do about 30minutes worth of stretching and warm up type things.

Planning races for the summer.. bunch of 10ks, an 8k, a couple of half marathons. It's fun planning. Still icing my right shin (and achilles) for the time being. New rule... the easy days have to be very easy... and this weekend - need to go through and plan everything to the day from now until Kenya...