running 41:50 [3]
TNT - at the track.
From the parking lot to the track was painful - could barely shuffle along, knees bad but everything just not feeling good, with Eric W. walking just as fast as I could jog. Lots of talk about this workout or that and I figured I would just hobble around in the outside lane of the track as best I could while everyone else did their thing. But the good news is that after 4 laps at 3 mins a lap, I started to feel a little better, and did the next 4 taking about 4 seconds off per lap, then decided to stretch it out on the homestretch on each of the next 4 doing those laps another 4 seconds faster each time so that the last one was under 2:30 (still in the outside lane). And my knees and hips were feeling better and better; no pain and the stiffness was gone. Unfortunately on the 12th lap I got some weird twinges in a couple muscles and decided that I wasn't going to push it. Walked a couple more laps and did some stretching until everyone else was done. Time is just the jog over to the track plus the 3 miles.