After the marathon last week, I was emailing with a friend of mine who lives in the town next door, and we decided that this weekend would be a good time for us to do a run together. We've met up once before a couple years ago, but in between we just always had other factors contributing to our not being able to sync up (whether it was birth of a kid for him, or IT band recovery for me which placed me well behind him in terms of speed and mileage, or whatever). He's done a handful of marathons, and with my debating what my next step will be (should I do another full before the Ironman in July?), it seemed a good time to talk training approach and for me to absorb some extra wisdom.
We met up at 6:45, and were initially going to do seven miles, but decided to turn it into nine. This was his long run, so I was ok with doing whatever he felt comfortable with. In the end, nine was probably a good amount, because that ache in my right big toe hasn't completely gone away - it abates after a few days of not running, but Thursdays run brought it back, and todays run brought it back as well. At this point, it is either something that will slowly go away if I just run through it by running 2x per week and treat it with ice/NSAID in between, or it would probably go away more quickly if I just didn't run for a couple weeks. I think what I'll end up doing is not running this week, and see how things feel towards the weekend and take it from there. Maybe if I ice it frequently over the course of the next several days, that'll help.
Anyway, it ended up being a more unstructured run that can't really be considered part of training because chatting during running brought the heartrate up - so the data is skewed. But the nice thing about the timing of it is that it doesn't really matter - it'll be a while before I really start thinking of training runs again. At least until this stupid right big toe thing goes away.
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