June 15, 2013
Dear Stephen,
Week one of marathon training complete. One down, 17 to go.
At the beginning of the week, I had settled on doing one
3-mile run, one speed workout, one bike commute, one long run, and two strength
training sessions each week. After this week, though, I might be changing my
mind.
It was raining on Monday morning, so I did the elliptical
instead. Then I did strength training Tuesday morning and ran with the Scouts
Tuesday night. Wednesday I did strength training again.
The trouble started on Thursday. I went to the track workout
with the Scouts. In the middle of my 4th or 5th 400-meter
repeat, I got some cramping in my hamstrings. One of them was really, really
sore all day Friday and still not great this morning. I had that really horrible
feeling of not knowing whether or not I should run.
It didn’t hurt that much, but would running make it worse?
It wouldn’t be a big deal to miss a 6-miler, but how could I skip my very first
run with the training group?
In the end, I decided to run. I feel ok right now. I’m sore,
but not alarmingly so. I just hope I don’t regret it tomorrow.
An injured hamstring isn’t a devil I’ve handled before. I
hate the unknown. This is exactly what I didn’t want to feel this time around.
Perhaps I skip speed training next week.
The good news is that I think I am really going to like
running with CARA. The group leader and all the women in my group are really
nice.
I thought of you this morning when the pace groups were
working themselves out. How fast did you run, anyway? I know it was a
hell-of-a-lot faster than me. Maybe 8-minute miles? Sorry I’m slowing you down.
But maybe you would like running with all women, anyway.
I miss you buddy.
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