Slept in until 7, but woke up more tired than I have been feeling getting up at 5. My feet are still a little sore, so I moleskined and duct taped them up before I went out around 9. I decided to run north on the Jordan River parkway until the turn around, then head back south until Willow Park, which I figured would be around 12 miles. I ended up just having to run to the underpass under main street. This was my first, time running and actually trying to maintain a certain heart rate, mostly due to the fact I spent 2 minutes looking at the garmin manual and figured out how to get the microscopic heart rate into one of the larger fields so I could actually see it while I ran. I tried to maintain a 160 bpm pace over the 12 miles, which I ended up averaging 162 over the 12, with an average speed of 8 min pace, which was a bit faster than my earlier runs this week, but still far slower than what I was doing before the hip injury. Very exhausted pushing to 12 for the frist time since October 3rd, when my IT band and back/hip issues really started up. Well, so far, no IT band problems, which I'm pretty sure were caused by my Si joint and back being out of alignment. |