Last night was my first hour long run since my injury last fall. It felt incredible!! I missed this so much. Running is 100% my passion!
This is also coming off an 8 hour swim technique workshop this past weekend. So much muscle memory occurred during the prep and execution phase of this training. In and out of the pool every hour for instructions, dry land drills, then in water practice. All this culminated with a 100 yd time trial where I improved by 10 seconds and lessened my stroke rate by a count of 8 per lap.
In spite of some fatigue, I was able to grind out 6 miles with 4x 6 minutes at threshold pace. Right now, that means a pace somewhere in the range of 8:32-9:14/mile. I managed to stay sub-9 for all for intervals and didn’t die!! 😜 Because I LOVE RUNNING!!!
It was such a perfect crisp evening here in central Florida. One of my favorite parts about running is watching either a sunrise or sunset during my miles. I needed this even more mentally than I did physically after 3 months of time off.
Post-run cool down I was a little stiff, so I focused on stretching and percussion therapy with my new massage gun. Today is nutrition and hydration focused with an upper body and core strength workout earlier and a recovery swim later tonight.
I’ve also officially registered for my first Tri of the season on March 11. It will be a great benchmark to see where my fitness is…but so will the mile time trial I’m running this Thursday evening too. Wish me luck! It’s been a while and I’m nervous about where I’ll land on this one 🤞🏼 #runBMT
Determined to Tri AND Run 