Rainy Day Blues

Monday May 31, 2010

Last day of autumn and it has rained on an off since my last post two weeks ago. I wonder if the persistent rain is responsible for me feeling bit down and blue although I do like to run in the rain. I have started yet another postural exercise program in an attempt to address running biomechanics. I have just completed a Foundation Physiocise course - which builds on the postural activation work I have done to date. The purpose of this program is to learn practices which will strengthen the weak muscles and stretch the chronically tight overcompensating ones. I have finally discovered what a glute med does and what it feels like when it is doing it. I have chronic asymmetry which I am hoping this program of exercises will address. In the mean time running has been just ticking over; I have run 105 km in the last 2 weeks including a mix of trail, hills and long slow road runs and one race. Last Saturday I ran the NSW Athletics Cross Country relay at Miranda. What a day of mud and glory. Our team finished the 4 by 4km event first in our age group in a time of 1:08. It was a lot of fun on a rainy cold Saturday afternoon which I would have otherwise spent cocooning with DVD (currently the Madmen series). It is rare that we as adults get to play in the mud and get a gold metal to boot was a bonus. Last Sundays Airport Adventure STAR was my longest steady pace road run for over a year. By the end of the 26km both glutes and hamstrings were feeling tight but I finished - in 2:35. It is time to do a few more of these steady long runs.