Hills

Saturday wasn't a very nice day to run outside. The Santa Ana winds were crazy so that meant so were my allergies. But I had to get my running in.

The workout was to run up Chapman in Orange (a nice steep hill). I thought it was 8mile run so that would be 4 up and 4 down. I did my warm up and got started. My avg pace the whole way up hill was 10:37 (that's what my pace was last week when I did 16) I felt I was running much harder since the winds were pushing towards me. Half way up the hill my knee started to bother me and it continued to bother me til i got up to where i need to go. It wasn't as painful as last week but enough for it to bother me. Once I got up the hill I had to turn back around that was distance of 4.5miles. The down hill at first was fun my avg pace was a whole minute faster 9:37 (wish I could keep this pace) and about half way down the butt and hamstrings feel the burn LOL my total distance was 9miles and avg pace was 10:27min/m not too bad considering half was uphill and I worked out all week sore from my last run.

With my knee hurting a bit and my butt and hamstrings feeling very tight. I had to do what I didn't want to do.....ICE BATH! OMG those were the longest 8min of my life!!! My toes turned purple tears rolled down my eyes, but needless to say it worked! Didn't feel too much pain after that. I did ice my knee all weekend and stretched. So I'm looking forward to this Saturday (hopefully no knee pains)