Plugging away

Broke 140 miles for the month in August. That is my biggest for the year. Reading Jay Dicchary's Anatomy for Runners and it is making me think about a lot of things I may be missing in my training. The least of which is focus on proper core strength and posture. Keeping the runs averaging around 5 miles, but frequency is daily, including lots of rolling muscles, core work at night, and a weekly strength class for cross training. Feeling positive about my running for the first time in a while. Also managed to hit Lynn Woods racing 4 times this summer. Looking forward to some fall results if I can keep the momentum going injury free. I start night classes at Northeastern next week so we'll see how it goes. This might mean running in the am several days a week-ughh.

Yankee Homecoming 10 miler

First actual effort in over a year. About what I expected, I've got a long road ahead. My plan was to run a bit under 7:30 and see how I felt. 7:15 pace felt about what 6:45 pace felt like 2 years ago. Anyhow, I guess I can't be that upset as my base is about an average 18 mpw for the year. The effort accomplished what I hoped it would-motivation. Looking at doing some mild training for the Nahant 30k the end of september-Splits:
1-7:22
2-7:17/14:39
3-7:30/22:10
4-6:57/29:08
5-7:19/36:27
6-7:33/44:01
7-7:26/51:28
8-7:32/59:00
9-7:25/1:06
10-7:12/  Overall 1:13:37  Avg: 7:22 pace

Update

So......it has been over a year since I raced. That was the 1/2 Run to Remember, where my groin finally let go and I was subsequently sidlined for about 2 solid months. I have been struggling to get back at it, averaging a little over 20 miles a week. I think my biggest problem now is weight. I raced the marathon Fall of 2011 at 175lbs and I weighed myself last night at 190. I've had a bunch of calve issues and all around soreness. On the plus side I started doing a weight/circuit type class about once a week-I think this will help w/ some of my flexibility issues etc. I don't have any real specific goals, just to get my weight down, crosstrain for flexibility and log consistent miles.

3 milers back to back to back....wow?

I've been averaging about 24 miles a week for 3 months now, running 5-6 days per week. So must of my runs have been 4-6 miles. I still don't think the groin/ab issue is solved, but it is manageable for now. I may try to check out a sports (running) specialist at Tufts if this thing flares up again. But for now keeping my mileage low and mt frequency up seems to be doing the trick. I ran 7.5 mile runs 3 days in a row this week, mainly because I had the time off from work during Christmas but it will be a good test to see how the mid section holds up. Maybe I'll even pencil myself in for a 5k or 4mile race to push it in January.

PLODDING

Been running close to daily now. Haven't pushed it more than 5 miles at all and so far so good. I need to lose some weight!!!! At around 3-4miles I feel my right (and sometimes both) groin start to tighten up, nervous as hell not to reinjure  it. Figure when I get to a point where I run 4 without any incidents I'll start to push a little longer. I've been mixing in some situps in an effor to build some core strength and flexibility.

Am I still a runner?

30 days off and it sure doesn't feel like it, will I ever get back to relaxing runs?

5 weeks of PT

After a trip to my primary care, referral to my surgeon, referral to a sports dr and forward to a PT, hopefully I'm making progress. After the 1/2 I basically could no longer do a situp or get out of bed without pain, I had pain radiating in my lower stomach and right groin. So I stopped running and for the last 5 weeks have been going to PT  twice a week. 15 minutes of electrodes followed by 30 minutes of hard message, not particularly enjoyable. But I have no pain getting out of bed and just went to a 2 mile run yesterday and a 3 mile run today pain free. We'll see how I feel tomorrow, but I am hoping I can get up to speed. This might take a while.