Out of the Woods?

I'm hoping that I am not jinxing this, but I may be seeing a light at the end of the "lame leg" tunnel and could be coming out of the woods on this thing! Hooray! Today's long run went really well...was supposed to do around 13 miles - but only did 10.5 miles. I did not want to push anything, and didn't want my mileage to jump too dramatically from what I've been working up from over the past few weeks. All-in-all, I'm not too far off of my training plan with this stupid injury - which I'm happy about.

The weather was perfect, cool and overcast, to run. Is so strange to be in the middle of July and the temps are in the 60's! Usually, I'm getting up super early on these Saturday mornings to get the workouts done, prior to the stifling heat & humidity that usually comes with mid-Summer in Minnesota. Not today! Got to sleep in a little!

The run went well. Goal was to remain slow and steady - working on keeping the limp out of my gait and evening things out. Warm-up time seemed to be less (for the leg to get to a normal run) than Wednesday. I can now vaguely feel a dull muscle pain in the calf and the TFL seemed to be a bit better today too. It only really annoyed me when the terrain got a little slanted. Then I just had to try to align my hips a bit more to compensate.

I did get to try out my new shoes today, which will be my 'official' pair of shoes I'll be sporting in less than 8 weeks at Ironman! Oh man... that date is creeping closer! Tomorrow, a bunch us IMWI girls will be heading out on the Century ride with the MN Tri Club. Hopefully we'll have another great ride (with no flats, right Val?).