 Busy day, night. I got out mid day for a tempo. 2 mile warm up, did 3 laps around Harper Lake off McCaslin (building, each a touch faster than the previous) and then back down through the Davidson Mesa to the office. Whole thing was about 26 minutes with the pace starting a bit above 6 minute pace and then moving down to 5:30s. Looking forward to doing this sort of workout more often now that I can and adding length to it, dropping the pace more. I did not feel well rested, actually kind of flat (still a bit thick) even with the light four yesterday, but we'll see how the rest of the week goes. Warmed down for an other three miles.
I saw the doc today and he is pretty convinced my abdominal thing is not a hernia but a good muscle strain called a diastasis. This is apparently where the muscle separates from the vertical line of connective tissue. It should heal on its own as long as I don't strain it.
I also had some blood work done to check some of the basics. I don't think they would have normally done this as part of a physical but I indicated I was interested in doing a 50 miler and wanted to assure that there were no problems there. I sort of re-realized why I don't like to talk to folks about these sort of events. When you mention this, most folks put you in that, "oh you are one of those" category. Now I guess this doc does not normally have people come in and say, "umm, hey doc, can I get clearance to do a 50 or a 100?" No, in fact, he probably spends most of his day dealing with folks that are wanting get back to basic good health.
"So you run how much now?"
"About 10 hours a week"
"All at once?!"
"No, no, I run every day so some days are 30 minutes, some are a couple of hours."
Here he gives pause and a long look.
"So, what 2 to 5 miles a day ...?"
I have yet to find the right answers to these questions that put people's minds at ease, and let them know that this behavior is not unusual, particularly when they consider it against some of the activities they regularly pursue. And so I usually dodge and evade these questions, or get a (as my wife describes it) a real goofy tone of voice in describing what I do.
Curious to see how I feel tomorrow. I am tempted to just do an other tempo if I feel good, or maybe hill repeats. And he said I could run a 50 if I wanted to.
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