Thursday, Sept 20th no running slept in

Feeling really tired today. I was going to run but have been feeling tired so I slept in.

Friday: Massage with Devon. He fixed what was going on in my left foot. pretty painful. My bone was out of place. He worked on my ITB and that sucked too. I told him I was feeling tired and he suggested I take more vitamin C and the herbs he sold me last time for fatigue. I think I'll do that.

Saturday workout: Started at Randall's and ran with Adam to Scenic. Carmen did the hilly first part of the run with me x 4. My workout was to do 4xprogressive loops around Scenic and start at 6:30 pace and get faster every mile w/o stopping to recover. I warmed up 16:30. Started my first loop with Carmen. She stopped at the top of Scenic as I kept going around to Mathews Road and when I got to the mile split to pick up Carmen again, my time was 6:00. oops....too fast...Carmen told me to slow down on this one and then pick it back up, so the next time I ran the loop, it was 6:17. Better, but still fast. Oh well....she really helped me up the hill by being right there next to me. I was really pushing up the hills but felt comfortable. By the 3rd one, I ran 6:11 and on the fourth mile, she ran up the hill with me and I was starting to lose steam. she pointed her hand down next to her as we were running and I caught up. Later she would tell me that she was just losing steam too and she never pointed her hand down, oh well...it helped me to think she was telling me to get right next to her. I was breathing pretty hard next to her but kept pushing...I was anticipating that she was going to stop at the top of Scenic and she didn't. I thought I would be able to relax on the last half, but she kept running. I think she had an idea that I would slow down, so i kept pushing hard and by the last 3rd of the mile, she stopeed but yelled for me to keep going...I flew down the hill and when it flattened out, I used my hip flexors to pull alittle and the last mile was 5:59. Ouch! But cool....

We cooled down for 16:30 back to Randall's. I feel really good about this workout.