Sunday, January 31, 2010

First run in a couple weeks!

WooHoo! I got my first run in since doing a very painful 10 miler in Griffith Park 2 weeks ago. This time we decided on doing a quick 14 mile loop at Lake -> Echo Mountain -> Backside road -> Inspiration Point -> back down.

Uphill was great with minimum pain. Felt really good! Downhill, however, was a different story. I was pretty timid going downhill, and I really could not go fast on the rocky parts of the single track. Even the switchbacks were a little difficult. Any lateral movements were an exercise in pain management. I also had to remember to keep my step up high because being even a little lazy has caused me shooting pain in my ankle.

The best analogy I can make is that it felt like it was an annoying little chijuajua constantly biting my heel. At time he'd get a lucky shot in and pain would shoot up my leg.

After much discussion, it seems I'm going to back down on the Twin Peaks 50 miler and concentrate on 50/40 + 26.2.. And now it seems we're going to add Old Goat's 50 to that list! Boy, March is going to be one heck of a month.. but you only turn 40 once :)

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