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pretty OK morning run!

May 19, 2014 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 50, nice

Comments:
Ran at 0520 for the first time in a long time. The idea is that I'm going to transition my running to the AM/lunch - the "old school" thing to do: to prioritize it, and to get in easy base mileage. But most of all: CONSISTENCY.

Felt OK on this run, kept 'er easy...but had a fair amount of back pain. Ugh. Turns out I'm STILL doing a lot of upright/lumbar extension in my stride...and I think I've been doing it for at least a couple months, or at least since around Sonoma.

As such, I noticed a couple things: 1. my back was intermittently painful, and 2. I ran slow.

Back in early May, I'd found out at my PT that if my back was "off" - stiff, extended or otherwise not stable - my hip strength would drop from "normal" to a 3+/5 (barely any resistance)! This...really sucks. This could totally explain my chronic hamstring tightness, as the hammies would be working overtime trying to extend my hips!

Ran about 8:00 pace for this 8.3ish miler, with a nice, low HR. Tired the rest of the day, though...

Even though I said I'd stop, I still flirted with Tanya today ... a little. Again, the void is there, and man, when it's a vacuum like it is right now, it's like walking around with a shop vac hose...anything in its sight is going to be "sucked up"!