I'm a dumbass. Since the ITB pains had lessened last week, I made the foolish choice to slack on the stretching, rolling and icing this week. I learned my lesson yesterday during my long run. Around 4.5 miles, I started getting pains in my right leg. I stopped at 5 miles to stretch, hoping that would help. I started back up again, but the pains were still there. I stopped after running 1/4 mile, because I'm pretty sure that if I kept going my leg would lock up and I'd have to stop anyway. I made the decision that I was better off cutting the run short than running and aggravating my leg more. Kind of disappointing, but a good reminder that I need to stay on top of things.
Not a whole lot else to report. I ran 4 at 5 on Thursday, because I wanted to go out after work with my work friends. I actually won a few games of trivia at BW3, which was a nice surprise. On an unrelated note, the owie toe issue has been resolved by my losing most of the nail. I still have the gift certificate for a spa pedicure that the Engineer gave me for my b-day, but I think my feet are way too ugly to subject someone to right now. I've never had problems with toenails on both feet before, so that's exciting and new.
Thursday:
treadmill | 4 miles | 36:48 | 9:12/mi.
Saturday:
treadmill | 5.25 miles | 49:12 | 9:22/mi.
