Sunday, November 07, 2004

signs of life

rode 90 miles yesterday and felt pretty good. not too sore this morning and my hr monitor told me that i was completely recovered. thought i might be developing the start of a saddle sore, so i opted out of a ride this morning.

i did, however, take the new running shoes down to the track along with the foot pod for the new hr monitor. i was able to successfully calibrate the distance so it should now track that for me. the new shoes seem to be helping as they feel good. i ran 1.5 miles without too much tenderness in the it band, but stopped because it felt like it might be coming on. i think the flat terrain of the track will be a good place to try to ramp back up, and i'm encouraged that it wasn't too bad today.

i will give it another shot tuesday morning to get on the track to run a couple more. with any luck, i will be able to start adding mileage and get to this ironman training soon. i will run in a different direction each time to keep the knee from getting tweaked by all left turns. here's hoping!

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