On Wednesday I ran about 60 minutes with Ciny on the trails. I had no IT Band issues at all.
Friday, I ran 60 minutes on other trails with Cindy and Muz, and had next to no IT Band issues. There was a tiny hint of it at the very end, but from 1-10, i'd call it a 1.5 in the pain scale.
Saturday (this morning), I decided to join my old running group that's training for Boston. Their last hard workout was today which was multiple 5 mile loops. I hopped in with Mark (TBB) for his last loop. He wanted 8 min/miles so I figured that would be a nice test to see where the fitness lies. Happy to report that we averaged about 7:25's for the 5 miles and I had no ITBand issues. However, those were the hardest 5 miles I've run in a very long time. (since the Boston Marathon last April, i think!)
I used to run 20+ miles at that pace without any effort whatsoever every weekend, but today it was a real struggle to get through it. Crazy how much fitness has disappeared.
It's now 3 hours later, and my IT Band is quite unhappy. Ok, I'm off to some food club thing I've been roped into.
1 comment:
You have some of the best head pix.
That fitness (marathon) would come back in three months. Easy.
Hope the ITB is feeling better.
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