This morning, the injury, and yes ... I'm now calling it an injury - the L proximal ham felt worse than it had in 2 yrs. Really bad timing. I sort of panicked this morning feeling like I'd never recover by Friday, but this evening, I'm a bit more optimistic. Having been on the track consecutive days, including 8 of 10 days during one stretch, 5 days is a really long time before the race. Taking 2 days off felt like a week. So, the plan is no running at all until race day, just cross training. I should be recovered to race by Friday. I can't control so much the healing process as I can other things, my cross training, my diet and weight, so that's what I'm concentrating on. Alan said I could take a month off and probably still win, but that's never the entire point. I wanted to run 58.5 or better. Maybe a WL. But now, my goals are a bit more modest. Just to win without injury.
Drove to the Fowler Center tonight and the a-holes closed it early without any announcement. It's a 25 min round trip to get there and I let the director know I wasn't happy. So tonight, I did a set of hip flexors/abs with ankle weights and some upper body. Tomorrow, to the gym in earnest with a conditioning set of rowing, stairmaster. The rest of the week, just light stuff.
Have achieved race weight. In the 138.5 lb range.
The hay is in the barn.
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