Running is therapy

I haven’t posted a training log in a while, and thought it might be time.

I was up till about 1:30 last night and woke up at 6:30 this morning. So on 5 hours sleep I was feeling a little washed out today.

I knew I had a 4 miler that I needed to do, but I kept putting it off because it was so hot and I was so tired that I thought it might be miserable.

Nope. Best run I have had in weeks. I felt great the whole time. It was one of those runs that causes you to fall in love with running in the first place.

When I got back, a certain 2 year old was hogging the shower, so I had to cool my heels at the PC. I figured no better time than the present to switch to using connect.garmin.com.

I think it’s a pretty sweet little app now. Motionbased was such a dog.

Anyway, here is my run.

Happy running!

About 2 (?) months ago I stopped wearing my orthotics to see if that would help my heel. I think I can say unequivocally that it has. I am running a consistent 20 miles per week, and my heel (though not entirely healed) feels better than in has in a year.

However (you just knew there was going to be a however didn’t you), my hip (remember my hip? the whole reason I started wearing orthotics in the first place?) is starting to feel the same way it did when I went to get orthotics in the first place.

It’s not quite as bad as it was then, but it’s bad enough that I know I have to start wearing the orthotics again.

I plan to try wearing them only when I am walking around, and not on runs, at least initially.

I also hope to put up a marathon training post soon, as well as my schedule.