12 miles. This was a big bump up in miles. I felt good running until the last mile, but I also had a lot of stops to stretch. My right butt started tightening up towards the end. That made my hamstring hurt later. I think if I would have stopped at 10 I would have felt a lot better afterwards.
Melanie and I warmed up 3 miles on our way to the starting line of a 3 mile downhill race. We ran past the starting line abut 1/4 mile down a hill to a port-o-potty. The busses hadn't dropped off the runners yet. It was time for the race to start when we began running back up the hill towards the race. We hoped it would start a little late, but it didn't. The race started a minute before we got there. I wasn't registered or planning to go fast, but Melanie was. We started late and had to wind through all the slow people.
We met up with Melody after the race for a cool-down. We ran back along the race to pick up the clothes we left at the port-o-potty and back. I was so happy to finally be feeling "normal" for most of the run.
I didn't have time to do the PT exercises and stretching I wanted to do. Then I sat in the car driving to St. George for 4 hours. My hamstring hurt later in the day, so that was discouraging, but not near as much as it hurt a month ago. I don't have all the tight spots fully worked out and I still need to be more flexible, but I'm making progress and I was happy to feel good doing 12 miles. I finally got a little "runner's high" again. | 