Run to Remember 1/2 Marathon

Nothing great to report about here. Still struggling with the groin pain and plodded through this one in 1:35. I ran the first 11 miles with my college friend Mike, a former UMass rower, I ran the last 2 miles hard and put some distance on him, just to see what my body could do. But not feeling the flow here, 7:20 pace should feel a lot better than that. The pain in my abdomen is back, I visited my primary care who said ice and ibuprofen and see a surgeon to rule out inguinal hernia. I keep reading about sports hernia and all these surgeries keep coming up, not good. Hoping it doesn;t have anything to do with the appendix cancer i had a few years ago. I'll schedule an appointment with my surgeon to check it out. Originally felt it after the 1/2 I ran last fall, summed it up as week muscles from my lack of core work and the back to back surgeries I had down there. Did some fall racing and marathon and backed of for a few months, started back up and seems like whenever I try to run hard it comes back.

East Boston Track.....kind of 400-800-1600-800-400

Did a little more track work this week. Mostly because it was windy and the airport loop I usually go on suck when it is windy. Fortunately the track in East Boston is somewhat sheltered. So here it is, 1 mile warmup, 1.5 cool down, 400 jog in between intervals:
400-1:37
800-3:31
1600-7:00
800-3:37
400-1:32