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Pool Workout

March 9, 2015 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Swim

Comments:
12 min warmup, 12 x (2 min hard, 1 min easy), 12 min cooldown. This is probably the hardest I've ever pushed in the pool. It really felt like the effort of a real track workout. Pool running is definitely the next best thing to running. I can feel it when I workout. That being said, I still decided not to try and run yet. In the past month, I took off 12 days, thought I was healthy enough to run again (even though I still noticed the slightest pain in my shin) and ran for exactly a week before my leg started hurting too much again on runs and I had to start cross training again. Here I am back in the pool every day and my leg feels 99% but I can still slightly feel a slight pain when I put impact on it. I know the season is close and I should be trying to run to get ready for the first meet but the way I see it, being out the last month already puts me in a bad position to start off the season. If I try and run tomorrow, I will probably feel alright for about a week, but may feel pain again after several days. If I wait out the rest of this week and crosstrain and am 100% pain free by the end of it, I can start running next week and still get in shape and save the second half of my outdoor season, which to me sounds like a smarter idea. Although this is easier said than done seeing how nice it is outside lately, in addition to the fact that the track is now clear and we got the new 10k training schedule which looks great. If I'm patient this week it should hopefully pay off for me in a month or so.