The month since the injury-forced DF at Hyannis has been a necessarily low-mileage one as I rehabbed my IT band. Some weeks as few as six miles, a max of 12, keeping all the individual runs quite short. That was after a year of weekly mileage of between 30-50 miles. So it was no surprise to meet up with the Manchester Athletic Alliance track club for the first workout of the season last night and find I’d lost a little something. The run was a 5K, no intervals until next week. It was just for fun and to test a potential fall race route. It was not supposed to be a race, so nobody really pushed all out, but I was still anxious to get a little speed work in, and curious to see where I’d be at after all the time off, so I ran pretty hard. And while I hadn’t lost everything, I was huffing and puffing a bit more than I expected to be, and I sure wasn’t as fast as I was last November. My friend who’s now in his Boston Marathon taper and at the very peak of his training fitness, turned around and ran backwards a couple of times to wait for me to catch him so we could finish the run together. He is going to run a PR at Boston. And I’m just hoping I’ve gone easy long enough to start putting some miles back into my runs…
Tags: manchester athletic alliance, Running
