This week was 35 miles of running, 15 "miles" of pool-running, and 1000 yards of swimming.
This was my second week of Boston Marathon recovery/catching up on stuff. I kept things easy for the first part of the week before a "baby" workout on Thursday.
My intent on Thursday was just to feel things out and reintroduce a bit of faster running, so I went with a mile at tempo effort followed by a few 100m repeats. The 100m repeats were faster than I expected, especially since my shoes (the Asics Novablast 5) were slipping on the wet track. The Novablast 5 is a great shoe, but only if you are running on dry surfaces.
I followed that with some strengthwork at the gym and then headed to the doctor to get some platelet lysate injections in my back/SI joint. This was a follow-up to the prolotherapy injections I had just before Boston - those injections were just a short term fix to get me through the marathon healthy; this was the longer term fix.
After the injections, I took a day off from aerobic exercise, limiting myself to upperbody weight machines that had pads to stabilize my back. (I also caught Rabbit in the Moon and Infected Mushroom in Baltimore that night - maybe not the best idea, but I tried to not bounce too much at the show).
The second day was in the pool, and then I returned to normal activity with an easy run on Sunday.
I was pleasantly surprised by the pace of the Sunday run - much faster than I was expecting. The weather was similar to what we had for Boston two weeks ago, and I was dressed warmly (tights, longsleeve, windbreaker), and I felt much better than I did during the marathon - just looser and less stiff. I guess that's evidence that I really should have gone with at least a longsleeve shirt for that race. Noted for next time.
Dailies:
Monday: 7 miles very easy (9:52) and upperbody weights/core.
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