Sunday, February 27, 2011

Home Again!

We're home again - it's so good to come home! :) I've had a good week, though - got some ideas to incorporate into our curriculum, made some great contacts,  mapped out (tentatively) my doctoral project (you don't do a thesis for a clinical practice doctorate - instead, you do a big capstone project) - all in all, a very productive week.  

I also managed to work out every day at 5:30 a.m. - running on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and a whole-body weight workout on Friday.  Our organization's wellness committee hosted an informal walk/run every morning, and the group pace was a bit faster than my comfortable pace, but I hung in there with them for the faster runs.  Every mile this week was a sub 10:00 pace - some of them as fast as 9:05, which is pretty fast for me.

I also wore heels every day (which I never do - my "uniform" is scrubs and sneakers, with a white lab coat for the office).  I mention the heels only because I started having some shin pain on the left leg this morning after the workout, and I wonder if it's the fact that I ran harder for several days, or the heels, or a combination of the two.  

My goal several months ago was to break the 10:00 barrier.  I think I've successfully done that, at least on the shorter runs.  I'm now wondering if I shouldn't take a bit of a break and do a few runs at an easier pace to see if this pain goes away.  I can always pull the inclines back out, because with those you get a kick-butt workout without all the pounding of a fast pace. Tomorrow is slated as a weight workout with  short period of cardio after, so we'll see how I feel.  If I'm having pain, I'll go at a slower pace on a high incline and just make it a hill workout. Or maybe just hop on Jacob's Ladder for twenty minutes - if any machine will kick your tail, that one will!

6 comments:

  1. Sounds like your running is going well! Such a good feeling, right? I'll bet your pain is shoe related. I wore dress flats (flats, not even heels!) for 2 days in a row instead of my Danskos and I had knee pain for almost a week! Bad shoes=not good for runners!

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  2. I've always (well for the last several months..haha) known you were a speedy little thing!! So sorry about the shin pain. I definitely hope it goes away soon for you!!
    Glad you're back home!!! Sounds like you had a successful trip. Hope you have a great week!

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  3. Looks like some really good workouts are going on around here! WTG!

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  4. good for you for getting out there and running and working out early. when i went on vacay last weekend i definitely did not do that. oops hahah!

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  5. waking up at 5:30 inspires me to get up earlier. thank you for the motivation. sounds like a great week. i think the pain is "high heel" related. hope it gets better.

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  6. Thank you, everyone! It's back to work and back to the gym tomorrow, so we'll see how it feels!

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