First running injury!

I tweet and use Instagram almost daily to keep up with blogging as it seems quicker to just convey my thoughts but I will try hard to remember to blog. I did our 16 mile run a couple weekends ago! Was getting close to hitting the wall. Actually, I think already blogged about that I will have to go back and check so I'll just write about my running after that. It was a huge jump in mileage and I began feeling the effects slowly but surely! Last weekend we did the new Prague half marathon. It was ALL uphill it was awful! Not too cold but I wore a long sleeve and ended up taking that off. When we finished the race we found out later on the the results were not going to be correct because they mismatched the timing chip with the wrong bib numbers! What a joke! Foam rolling and ice packs and rest is what I am doing since then. Not sure if it was because of the jump in mileage or because of the hills or all the squats I do in addition to running but I pulled something on my left upper leg. Reading online about it it says IT band which is a very common runners injury. It is making me feel very sad about this weeks running as this saturday I have 18 miles scheduled!!!!! I am supposed to run tonight and can't. Boo.

16 miles

The body achieves what the mind believes. Couldn't be a more perfect quite to go along with my run this last weekend. I wasn't nervous about the big task I had to take on of running 16 miles. (Farthest run to date!) I knew that with the right mindset I would crush the pavement. Although I'm slow, it's still a mile.(or 16) the run started out by running downhill up to highway 68. The first two miles one would predict the run to be terrible. I got two side aches,(guessing because I ate my bagel and banana a half hour before the run!) Steve dropped his water bottle so we had to stop, my camelback seemed like it was leaking water, and I had to stop a few more times for my side again. It wasn't too windy out a little chilly until about an hour into running. We ran all the way to new Ulm Into town to kwik trip gas station and then back out to highway 14 back to our house! The rest of the day my muscles were so sore! Foam rolling didn't help much. Using oils and stretching. This upcoming weekend will be our 6th half marathon in less than a year! In new Prague.