10 miles - 2 mile warmup - 10 x 1/4 mile repeats - cool down. I was a little cautious with this run because I started to have a slight pain in my quad after yesterday's run. It is on the inside of my quad on the right leg. It is a little over half-way up my quad. Yesterday it hurt during the day, which was pretty unusual. I did a decent job of rolling it out last night before bed and it felt pretty good this morning. So, I headed out the door and stuck to the roads instead of heading to the track. I decided I was just going to do 1/4 mile repeats at some pace faster than marathon pace and see how the quad felt. About .5 of a mile into the run I could feel the pain in the quad, but it was not bad. I felt the pain when I would pull my leg to take a step. There was zero pain on impact or when I was weight bearing on my right leg. I decided to do the first repeat at about 6:15 and it felt fine. It actually felt a little better to run faster. So, I did 9 more repeats and they all fell somewhere between 5:00 and 6:00 depending on the terrain. On the 9th repeat I could start to feel that the quad was getting more aggravated so I decided 10 repeats would be sufficient for the day and I headed home. I am a little hesitant with the quad now and don't know exactly what is going on with it. I think it is just an over-use injury and it will go away soon. I am going to ice it up today and take tomorrow really easy. Luckily this is happening right at the time I need to taper anyway. [does anyone know why my monthly view counter doesn't work? it is not a big deal but it stopped working over a month ago. i messaged sasha but never heard back]
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