It was kinda nice to know I didn't have a long run looming today. Since this is a cut back week for me it turns out that this was a fairly easy week. Except for the lower back pain which has caused me some greef this has been a pretty good week. This morning our stake had a pioneer day 5K and since I have been hurting a little bit I was not going to race but I decided to pace my son for the entire race and try to push him. He has been running with the cross country team for about the last month and has improved significantly. When he ran this race a few months ago on memorial day I think he finished in like 29 minutes without me pacing him and with very little or no training. Today he and I ran it in about 24:30 and were able to push the last mile up to about the 7:30 range. I was proud of him for digging in the last mile and really pushing to the finish. I did get some new shoes yesterday and they were great to run in, new shoes are always so comfortable. I also finally invested in an inversion table to see if it will help with my lower back issues. I'm not looking for a miracle, just some relief, especially during the next couple of months of extremely hard training. The back felt much better today than the last couple of days but I'm sure that is because I am all hopped up on heavy drugs......800mg of IB. I will take the drugs for the rest of this weekend and then see how it goes on Monday when training takes another step in the really hard direction.
Time: 1:04:32 8:04/mile | 