8K training – Week 9 – Aaah rest

17/07	0 miles	Rest day, evening IMA softball game
18/07	4 miles	~11min/mile, legs felt horrible, I think I need a couple days of total rest…
19/07	0 miles	rest rest rest
20/07	0 miles	rest rest rest
21/07	5 miles	legs felt much better
22/07	0 miles	rest rest rest
23/07	10 miles	slow & easy, felt great for the first 7m and decent for the last 3
Total	19 miles	YTD: 446.5 miles

[24/07] This week I decided to listen to my body and take things a little easy. I tweaked my right hamstring sometime during week 8 and although it was a fairly minor injury it needed a bit of time to heal. I should have taken the time off right away but I had softball and ultimate games to play and a training schedule to stick to so I just kept going. I don’t think my leg got any worse but it wasn’t getting any better either so this week I decided things had to stop. I took three days completely off of all athletics and it helped immensely. My hamstring seems to have recovered and my legs feel better all around. In the long run that’s much more important than the fact that I was 4 miles short of my mileage goal for this week.

5 days to the 8K race, it’s time to taper…