Week 2 and a bit of a setback

So in the meantime, I'm climbing the walls...
 

I was all-in at the beginning of this second week of running training. 

After going to the gym on Monday morning, which is my typical gym day, I met my friend Tanya for a short run at a local park. It was cold but sunny and it felt good to get out and run!

My goal was simply to run a bit farther than I did previously, stretching my mileage from 3 to about 3.5 miles. And my speed seems to be coming back, too. I ran the additional 1/2 mile but it took me only about 3 minutes longer than my previous 3-mile run. So, I'm running at a training pace of around 8:30-8:40. I'll take it!

The next day it was back to cycling training, since I'm preparing for a quickly-approaching week of cycling in the desert, and that desert has long miles and big climbs and I want to be ready. 

But then something a bit unusual happened. During my weekly Stelleri group ride on Zwift on Wednesday night, I had some knee pain that came from out of nowhere during the warm up. I considered cutting the ride short, but ended up riding easy with my team girls for the remainder of the ride. But the knee pain seemed to travel up my leg to my hip, and I didn't know what the hell was up with this.

I ended up taking the next couple of days off, as rest and recovery days. I think that what happened is that I was trying to squeeze in my running workouts around some big cycling workouts, and maybe I needed to back off a bit. So I did.

This weekend looks like NEO is going to see more rain, ice, and snow, and then we're back in the deep freezer for another week. I'm not a treadmill girl (long story for another time), so unless there's a significant break in the weather between now and when I leave for my trip at the end of next week, I'm putting my running on hold until I get back in early March.

Hopefully this won't impact my goal too much. Once I'm back from the desert, I can focus more of my time and energy on running - and giving myself adequate recovery time in between.



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