Back at running after 10 days...and good news for race scheduling

I just found out that the Pocatello sprint triathlon is moved to July 23 this year. That means I'll be in town and able to do it. That's awesome. I normally don't get to do it because of the USMCR annual training trip in August. I'm very happy that I'll get to do the home-town race. It's a backwards race....run, bike, then swim.

And I kind of recommitted myself mentally to the Xterra Utah race in September. I really want to do that, but it will be tough to stay in shape throughout all of August and September. I want to do it simply because I think it's a cool race.

I took ten days off of running to get my left calf muscle back to 100%. It seems if I run in the snow, I end up tip-toeing kind of through the snow, and it puts a lot of pressure on my calf muscles. And then it gets strained. There's no pop or noise of any kind. It just gets really weak and hurts when I push off.

So I ran five miles yesterday and five today. Before my run today, my legs were no-kidding SORE. It has to be from the run on Monday because nothing else fits into a category that would make my legs sore like that. I did the regular bike workout Monday morning. In fact, I didn't do anything Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. I did the Spinnerval 28 video this morning, but soreness wouldn't have kicked in within only three hours.

Very strange that I got sore.