I'm back!

After almost 3 months, I've decided to start blogging about my running again. It's hard to blog about something you are not actually doing, and over the summer I didn't run at all for a few weeks and didn't get over a few miles per week, for several weeks. This was due to a nagging bout of patella tendonosis in my right knee, which I still have, but am starting to manage better. I continue to have piriformis syndrome, now that I know what it is. It's basically a pain in the butt (literally), and in me it shoot pain into my lower back. It first hit me during my first marathon a year ago, and it has never let up. I tried chiropractors, deep tissue massage, acupuncture, you name it and I have tried it to get past this. I recently went to Spaulding Rehab and saw Dr Vora who resolved my achillies issue a few years back. she is awesome!!!! She diagnosed the piriformis syndrome and scheduled me for a few rounds of trigger point injections. I had my first round last week and while getting injections of muscles relaxers, my glute,pirformis, and quad muscles were going nuts! I ran the next morning and my legs felt like I just finished running a marathon, they were beat! I took Saturday off and am about to head out for a 10-12 mile run. My right knee could act up, so I'll take miles as they come. My goal is to get consistent miles around 50+ per week with two hard efforts per week. I have maintained some intensity with spinning,biking, and hill running on the treadmill and I hope this translates into some Fall running fitness. I am signed up for the Hampton 1/2 marathon in October, and though I'll be running this as a training run and not a PR effort, I want to Hold a decent and consistent pace. My goal is to run the Boston marathon in a PR time, which I'll determine after another month or two of training. If I can rid myself of the piriformis, I should have a good shot at breaking 2:55. It really took me down last year in the later miles......along with my quads failing, but I can train for that. Ok, off to say 'see ya' to my girl and then heading for Breakheart res. This 10-12 is going to be hilly!