Another One

So I got it in my head that I wanted to try to run another mile at the track for the second consecutive week.  There was an additional layer of challenge as I squatted on Tuesday for the first time in a couple weeks which had injected all sorts of soreness into my legs before I took a single stride.  I popped my two advil and headed to the track anyway.

The first 200 yards was not a great feeling.  I watched the kids baseball practice that was going on to take my mind off the feedback my body was giving me.  In less than two laps things had settled down and overall I felt better running the mile than I did last week, which is the outcome I hoped for.  Now that I have done two sessions without significant injury I am going to slowly add distance, tacking on a lap every couple weeks.  If I am able to run 8 laps around the track by the end of February I would feel like I could grind out the 5K at the beginning of March.  Who knows how viable this plan is but I am going to give it a shot.  I will back up the run with my 10 mile road bike session after work tomorrow hopefully.  I am hoping that the combination of these two endurance activities will harden my resistance to injury.