Friday run: I was going to go on a good long run -- the schedule said 1:30 at zone 2 but I was going to go as long as it took me to get closer to Pololu than I ever had previously. It's about an 11 mile round trip, and the closest I've gotten is about 9.25 miles or so -- I was aiming for about 10. Unfortunately, my left leg started out tight and my hamstring kept feeling crampy, enough that I was afraid I was going to injure something, so I turned around about 25 minutes out and walked some and only ended up running about 40 minutes. I was MAD!
Later that day I went to see this doc for the first time, though, and I feel much more optimistic about things now. I also learned that its probably not necessary to stop and turn around when my leg is feeling like it was on Friday, just to stop and stretch for a bit and then keep going. Apparently it is a good thing that the pain/tightness/discomfort kind of jumps around. It doesn't seem like anything is really injured, just tight and off-balance in various spots, so I'm going to do all the therapy homework I was given and keep seeing the doctor.
Saturday was an easy swim day, and we all went to Richardson's to swim for half an hour. It was about 4:30 and fairly choppy, and I ended up not getting such an 'easy swim' out of it when I tried to come back in to Richardson and almost ran aground on very shallow rocks! I ended up having to backtrack quite a bit (if you can do that in the water?) and swim back out into the open water and then go out and around some rocks to the one right place to enter, where its actually deep enough! This was made much more difficult by my goggles, which are tinted blue and starting to lose their coating so I actually couldn't see well enough in the air to figure out where I was going. I had to tread water while getting sloshed around in the waves and pull my goggles OFF to sight -- annoying! Getting new goggles. Ended up swimming kind of hard, got back in after 35 minutes.
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