hills, lite rain, wind, speed

Monday run, plan 4 miles; hilly but nice flat road surface (un"cambered"), great gravelly shoulder too; sprinkling for 1st 1/2 mile; sun came out from clouds; little wind 1 p.m.

stats:
4.27 miles
42.03 minutes

not even gonna put my avges anymore. what's the point? i was really just doing it cuz it's LISTED on my GARMIN FORERUNNER (***qwik qwes--chee--OWN here: how do people put something like <<--that in highlighted blue, so that when the reader puts their mouse on it, it actually takes it to a link for the garmin forerunner???? PLS ADVISE!) ... but i don't really need to list it. i mean, if you just have a BASIC knowledge of mathematics you can DO THE MATH roughly. so it's really not necessary. PLUS, i'm not one of you runners who actually RUN FOR TIME. i just do it to do it. git'er done, i say! it's very fulfilling...but i shall run to run at this juncture. some day in future time perhaps i will run to beat records. who knows. i know for sho' it-ain't now.

i think what i felt for 1st 3/4 mile (approx) could be described as shin splints. on my left leg, the pain is in the rt place for them. on my rt leg, it is a little low. (location of where i thought i had a stress fracture...tibia, low.) but i'd taken 2 ibuprofen b4 run.

wow, HARD going for good mile. hills help w/ that. but i think i ran faster than norm. experimented w/ arm swings (like esp up the hillls...using arms more to lift me); on flatter or down hill surfaces sped up but still tried to soften blow w/ foot falls. gettin' me? am i explaining well? so, anyway, why'd i think i went faster? cuz of hills. overall my pace was pretty norm, but considering there were hills, it musta been faster. i really pushed it up the hills. it was like, i don't wanna be running this hill any LONGER than i have to, LET'S GET IT OVER WITH!

lotsa stretching. if my legs don't feel much better wed, i'll skip (so i'll have 2 rest days under my belt) and run 4-5 on thurs, then my long run sat. it is a little dificil to know what to do. when trying to be my own trainer (but this is where rob the runner, christie, and others come in, sarah, amber) i have to decide when to back off, when to push thru...i have to evaluate the pain. it's not like i'm wimping out, i don't think. cuz on my rest day, i usu feel some pain...think, i probly won't run tomorrow. then comes the run day and i'm like I'VE GOT TO GET OUT THERE! I MEAN, THE NEED...i NEVER thought i'd feel this way! it's so weird, new, diff'rent, cool, inspiring, etc.! i know sarah and rob feel this too. (rob X a-million, but YAknow!)

usually, on the run day (every other day being run day, opposite days being rest days), i feel great and can't WAIT to get out there. then i GET out there, start to run and OH MY GOSH. ouch! but after a mile feels purty darn good. all the wiggles are out...i get into a groove, and the road is MINE.

today, despite the pre-run ibuprofen, shins hurt again 3/4 of the way thru run...why i feel i might need to wait 2 days to run again. perhaps i should start waiting 2 days to run AFTER my long runs. what are your ideas. if i have to go every other day to start w/; have to have a 2 day break somewhere in there, HOW SHOULD I ORDER MY WEEKS? i'm sure you'll let me know, and thank you in advance.

somebody's gonna praise His Name, somebody's gonna call Him Lord; it'll either be you and me, OR it's gonna be a rock or tree...somebody...somebody's gonna praise His Name!!!

((((from today's run))))

from Petra