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<\/a><\/p>\n#tfw you just finished a long run and your brain isn’t quite right.<\/em><\/p>\n Last week, I hit all the sessions, but I had to make a sub on Thursday and skip the speedwork due to crankyhip syndrome.\u00a0 It ended up being the right call for many reasons.<\/p>\n I’m pretty content with how it turned out.<\/p>\n The good:<\/p>\n I was able to complete my last long run for 16 miles.\u00a0 I whined and complained my way through the end of it, but to be fair, I was dealing with some mad blood blisters, not my favorite weather (70 and DRIPPINGLY humid), and my music died 4.5 miles from home.\u00a0 It was slower than I would have liked – the first four miles averaged 12:20s, and the rest were between 11:30-12.\u00a0 However, I came away with a solid, slow long run and I’m not feeling my body or soul crushed by it.\u00a0 Which is pretty much how I wanted to go into taper.<\/p>\n I was able to knock out a good speedwork sesh on Tuesday even though I really had no want after a long staycation weekend of food and drink.<\/p>\n I NAILED rehab and prehab this week.\u00a0 I stretched and rolled almost every day, and I hit the 3 core sessions with at least 20 mins of solid core-only work.<\/p>\n I hit my 3 other days of cross training.\u00a0 Other weeks I’ve been flaking on one of them.<\/p>\n The bad:<\/p>\n My hip wasn’t able to handle 2 fast sessions so close to each other (Tuesday night and Thursday morning) *or* my hip is just not handling mornings well (as evidenced by my super slow first 4 miles on Saturday).<\/p>\n I did flake on the pool this week and rode my bike instead, due to laziness about getting to the gym.\u00a0 I want to get there at least once this week!<\/p>\n Overall, even though the middle of last week, I’d tell you the world was ending, I feel like it was a pretty positive one on the bookends.\u00a0 My hip is not 100% but I feel like some of the changes I made last week with how I’m sitting both at work and at home, how I sleep, being deliberate about both my run and walking strides, all the rehab and stretching… it’s helping.\u00a0 I’m not out of the woods yet, but I’m seeing the light through the branches.\u00a0 That 16 miler in which I was no worse for wear after really helped things.<\/p>\n I’m kind of in a state of taper already, but, hey, it’s time to OFFICIALLY call it that.<\/p>\n Every day goals:<\/p>\n This is kind of the week that can make or break me. I need to make smart decisions.\u00a0 The end.<\/p>\n Food:<\/p>\n\n
4-5 miles of tempo work (between 9:30-10 min miles<\/del>) easy 1.7 miles, 30 mins easy spin<\/li>\n30 min lunch swim<\/del>, 20 min trainer ride, core<\/li>\n(ready to flake on this if my hip starts feeling bad), no slower than 11:30 min\/miles (also ready to compromise pace if needed)<\/del>.<\/li>\n\n
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