Saturday, January 28, 2012

Week 4 - Running with one arm sucks

Jan 22 - Jan 28

Total Distance - 12 miles

Weight - 216.4

Got in and saw the ortho about my shoulder.  Good news is that it the initial diagnosis is a shoulder sprain.  Bad news is that there is nothing that you can do for it, just don't go lifting heavy things.  I am fine as long as I don't reach down, or move my shoulder in a downward motion.  I have pretty much figured out a running motion, but it is really hard running and focusing on not moving your arm a certain way, but life will go on.

This is the first week where I stepped it up to four runs.  Right now I am feeling a little fatigued, but not as bad as I thought.  Truth be told my legs hurt worse from being on a ladder all afternoon (stupid leaky window) then they did after today's run. 

I ran the same 4 mile loop that I ran last week, only this time I was pushing my son in a stroller.  I ran a few minutes slower and could definitely tell that pushing an extra thirty plus pounds had an effect.  I am glad that I have two days to recover from this week.

I continued to focus on pacing this week and aside from today's run I ran the others very consistently.  Now just to keep running with out injuries. (I forgot my shin split straps for a run this week, but for the first time in a long time, no harm came from it.)

Promising week overall, now I just need to build off it.

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