Injured

I've been out of commission the last few days with a really crappy muscle spasm thing. I'm not sure exactly what I did-- but for the last few days, my left shoulder & up through my neck, and left side of my face will all of a sudden develop searing pain... which will last a while, and then go away. I've been seeing the chiropractor at least daily. Yesterday, I saw the primary doctor (felt slightly cool to acknowledge I'm training for a triathlon). Diagnosis: Muscle Spasms. Treatment: Muscle Relaxers, which are great, but I can't stop sleeping.

Swearing Off 5K's

So my current running plan isn't working... probably because I don't have a current running plan. Right now, it seems to be run as much as I can, then get tired and walk until I feel like running again... or not... then run significantly less before walking significantly more, lather rinse repeat.

It has been almost a year, and I am not making significant progress on running.

This morning, we did the North Brunswick 5K... I think I logged the longest 5K ever... enough.

So. I have a plan. I am going to do a run/walk plan-- with the goal being to do the same interval over & over for 45 minutes. First time out, my plan is to do 1 min run, 5 min walk (I can do this easily, but have to build confidence somewhere!). Then, assuming I can do that well, then we try 1.5 min run, 5 min walk... and build the run interval until it's 5 min run, 5 min walk. Then I will start to decrease the walk. But anyway, I'm not doing any more 5K runs until I can really do them.

Well, I am going to do the Run for Hope on Fathers Day to support Center for Hope... but I'm going to use it as a training run, so will do whatever run/walk interval I'm working on at that point.