For this morning's 5K, I decided to run with my sister. It was very nice to hang out with her since when we see each other lately it is usually with the kids (she has two daughters - a 3 year old and a 9 month old). We started out at a nice 10:30/mile pace. The weather was in the mid-70s and about 75% humidity, so it was definitely enough to break a sweat - but not get too tired out.
At about the halfway point to the race, my sister wanted to slow down a bit and told me just to go run. So, that's what I did! I probably did the rest of the race in a sub-9:00/mile pace to cross the finish line at 29:42 (watch time...it took us a good two and a half minutes at the beginning to cross the starting line).
So, today I got the best of both - I did half of the run with my sister and the other half at more of a race pace.
The best thing - NO HAMSTRING PAIN. NONE AT ALL. NADA. שום דבר
It's amazing. After 8 weeks of resting, icing, stretching, taking Ibuprofen, etc. for my injured hamstring the thing that worked was a trip to the chiropractor. Lesson learned.
3 comments:
hey sorry I missed you! nice time! i hope to see you at some race soon!
Thanks for visiting!
I'll continue to check your blog to see if we're hitting the same races. I'm sure we'll meet up at some point.
Very glad to read that your hamstring is improving, Mike. Hope your summer is going well.
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