• Last day of the summer

    Date: 2010.08.31 | Category: running | Tags:

    The last day of August is coming to a close.  I’m glad that soon we’ll be seeing cooler temperatures and better running weather soon.

    I’m not so glad that Sunday’s run made me really sore.  Unusually sore.  I thought my training has been pretty good – not great – but not bad either.  Only a couple of weeks ago, I ran 11 miles on my treadmill so I thought 10 miles outdoors would be fine.  When I trained for my marathon, I interchanged running long runs on the treadmill when the weather didn’t allow running outside.  Granted, that was a different treadmill… Maybe that has something to do with it.

    Anyway, I’m chalking it up to a lesson learned and a note to run the rest of my long runs outdoors.  What I’m experiencing is called Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (or DOMS).  One of the things you can do to relieve this is light exercise – just going for a short, easy walk is good.  Another thing I should have done more of after my workout was stretching.  I do light stretching after all of my runs – I believe this is VITAL – but on harder workouts, I should be doing more stretching.  Longer, deeper stretches and not ignoring muscle groups that I take for granted. 

    My quads and right buttock were apparently taken for granted.  Right now, they are not.  Believe me.

    Right now I’m watching Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

    In high school, I listened to a lot of Pink Floyd.  The Wall, The Dark Side of the Moon, Pulse (thanks to my brother’s collection for that one), A Momentary Lapse of Reason and Wish You Were Here were my favorite CDs.  I think it was right around the time that the Spice Girls exploded in popularity.  Considering what was out there, I don’t blame myself for my Pink Floyd phase at all.

    End tangent?

    Tomorrow is my first day coaching Girls on the Run.  I am super nervous.

    It’s also the first day of 30 Days of Self-Love.  :)