Achillies.

I signed up for the UCAP pool yesterday and did 1300 in about 34 minutes.  That was the alternative to my 12x400 which I ditched because of lingering achillies tendon pain.  I'm hoping to do another swim and then try the 16 miler on Friday.  I may do the 4 minutes on 1 minute off plan.  At a moderate pace (8 min/miles while running) - I can still belt out 9 minute miles.  That'd put me a little over 2:20.  Hopefully the walk/run will let me train through the injury.  That, and heavy doses of ice and ibuprofen.

Last Two Days

So it's been a difficult week. We got a miserable blast of cold/wind on Monday, so I decided to wait until Tuesday to do my first run - a 5.8 miler - which included Avery and Jupiter, then back up. Pretty slow: 8:30 pace, ~49 minutes total - probably should've extended it. Yesterday I made it out for a quick 3.8 miler - around Avery and back up. Probably about the same pace as the day before. Nevertheless, I managed to really tweek my lower back. I still made it to the swim class last night. The lanes were a crowded mess - but we probably logged about 2000+ yards.

Hopefully my back will feel better come Friday afternoon - I need to get my interval/tempo workout done: 4x1 mile repeats. I'll keep the pace down a little for the first 3 (~7:00min/miles) and hopefully have enough left to lower that on the last one. I don't want to kill myself - just work in a little speed.

Off track intervals

I did off track intervals down at the Jupiter loop to make-up for yesterday's washout. My achilles in both legs are very tight - so I only did 5x600 (goal was 7x's) - before stopping and jogging slowly back up to work. I may shutdown the running until next week - yes it was that bad. I figure I can drive down to the beach and do some swimming one day and maybe bike in the other day - just to keep the 'equivalence miles' going - but I'm I need to get the legs healthy before the CVS downtown (now only 11 days off). Hopefully, if the tendons are feeling better new Tuesday or Wednseday - I can do the run home - and just kinda combine this weeks and next weeks long runs.

New Shoe Run

It's always exciting to lace up a new pair. In this case my 'new' pair is last year's model of the Brooks Adrenaline. I did 4.9 miles in them, and they felt pretty good. Hopefully they'll help the plantar fasciitis. I may be lacing them up for this weekends O'Niantic 5K.