Run fast

30 minutes on stationary bike then some hip exercises, stretches, and hot tub. To my relief it doesn't appear that any major damage was done yesterday.  My hamstrings are more sore than anything else while my quads and calves feel surprisingly good. Chaffing is inevitable but skin heals fast.

For fun I charted my average marathon times (excluding some trail races) by year since my first in 2000. Then I plotted the polynomial trend line and excel magically gave me the trend line equation.  According to the trend I should hit the OTQ sometime in 2014 and break the WR in 2019. :)  Unfortunately age and human genetics are working against me so this line really needs to be logarithmic. For now I like the look of this line better.

y = -6E-05x2 - 0.0004x + 0.116

x is the year and y predicts the time.

Stationary bike

Stationary bike, a couple elliptical miles then a whopping .25 miles on the treadmill. No hurry to start running again but tomorrow or Thursday are probably doable.

Bike and stairmaster

A semi real run on the treadmill.  My hamstring is still sore but everything else feels good.

Sadly a duck was hit by a car in the parking lot at the gym.  Should the duck have seen the car or should the driver have seen the duck?   I think they are both to blame.

Slept in this morning, cleaned my kitchen then headed out for a run.  I didn't want to run anything hilly so I started south on 13th east and ended up retracing some of the slc marathon on van winkle.  To avoid having to think I turned around and 6.5 miles and ran the same route back.  Surprisingly I felt pretty good and averaged around 6:45 for the run.  I am considering running the provo half next Saturday.