Short update- Nothing exciting

22.15 (I think) miles last week, which is pretty good. That includes mosey and dog-walking miles.
After the 7.5 on Monday and the 5.5 on Tuesday, I was in a lot of pain for a while. I really can't run like that 2 days in a row.

But I did finally buy some compression sleeves, which I LOVE. ♥♥♥♥♥
They're not super-tight, but they just feel like I'm being squeezed. They were only $9 each at the sports basement (favorite store!) and they're thick neoprene, not the fancy sock-like ones. I'll wait to spend the $40 pm those.

So, after all the pain, I waited until Saturday to try and run again on the treadmill. As I would say in the twitterverse- #fail. I started out in my sleeves, but that was a hot, tranny mess. (© Christian Siriano, God bless him.) I think that they re-aligned everything in a not good way, my knees started hurting, ankles felt weird, so I took them off.

I tried a couple bursts of running, but it just felt like I was slamming my shins, so I stuck to walking. I thought I was going pretty quickly, but my time didn't end up being that hot. Oh, well.

Yesterday was a great run/walk/torture. Though Thomas wasn't there, 4 of us met up where he told us to and walked over to the track at SSU. Good lord. We started walking and thinking, "Where IS this track? How far are we from campus? Why did we park all the way over here?" Once we made it onto campus, we asked people where the track was, and consistently got, "Oh, gosh. It's way over on the other side of campus." So we trekked, thinking it was obviously going to be by the other sports fields, but no. Asked again, and were shown a map and pointed in the correct direction. Here's what we did. The track is over in the bottom left corner of the map. We started out going north, then west all the way down to Petaluma Hill road. The way back was the southern route.



This track? Was not new and shiny. Old, faded, cracked and curling in some parts. But it's still better than pavement. Clearly, SSU no longer has a football or track team.

So, we just ran 1/2 mile on the track, then we proceeded to do some exercises. We did some lunges in all directions (in one spot), then we did suicide sprints across the field (short way). Ugh. I was not happy about those. Then abs- bicycle crunches, then regular lunges across the field, grapevine back. We were going to do one more lap around the track, but some were concerned about it getting dark. I don't mind being out at night when we're on main roads with lights.

So, we went a different way out, hoping that the road we were parked on hit the road we were taking. It did!

As usual, my body took its sweet time warming up. Even though I had walked 2 miles during the day, I still didn't feel good and ready to roll until we were on our way back to the car. I was full of energy and kind of hyper and jogged a lot on the way back. Why, oh why, does it take my body so long?

So...7.33 miles yesterday total. Good start to the week. I need to ride my bike today, though it appears that time is a-wasting. Maybe I'll hit the gym after church.

Tomorrow I'm visiting the sports massage therapist to talk about my shin splints. Hopefully, we can work out something cheap that will help. Then- more track. This time with Thomas, and at the track with stairs. GAH! Pray for me.