Still Hurts

The hamstring had been feeling great for the past few days so I decided to just run an easy 2 miles on Monday and not cycle at all.  My legs were dead from the killer cycling week I had.  I stretched a ton and the bad hamstring felt just like the good hamstring.  We took off at an easy pace and everything was going well until about 300 meters to go.  I started to feel a little ache.  DAMN!!  I got 40 days left with at least 7 or more for a running taper.  Crap, crap, crap!!

I iced and stretched a bunch but I'm just not sure today.  I'm going to ride then run off the bike the same easy 2 miles and see if a warmer hamstring feels fine the whole way.  I'm hoping it will slowly just get stronger so I can slowly build up some mileage.  It's a guessing game at this point.  You don't want to run that extra 100 meters which will trash it.  I mean had I just let up that last 200 meters during my tempo run or had I just went easy like I thought about doing or even just stayed at an even tempo rather than building to an all out mile at the end.

Oregon is so dry compared to DC, my skin is cracking, I'm dehydrated and have dry mouth during the night.  Just amazing considering Oregon isn't that dry of a climate.  I guess I have gotten somewhat used to the humidity in DC.

I've been trying not to overdo the food intake but man I've had some good food over the weekend.  I gained a couple of pounds from Friday - Sunday.  That's okay as I'll lose most of it on Thursday during the flight back to DC.  A fun 6 hour plane ride probably on a full jet.  I'll try to get some extra sleep so I can adjust back to the east coast time zone.

39 days...