Taking it easy...

When I finished yesterday's training I was feeling like I was pushing myself too hard and not allowing enough time to recover from last weekends half marathon. After the race I had sore hamstrings, especially the right one and after yesterday's session I my right hamstring was bothering me and I was starting to get a sore left Achilles. 

I was scheduled to do a long run today and decided not to. I was going to substitute with a long swim and at the last minute, as I was getting in my truck, I decided I should just take the day off and rest. I'm not injured but I think I'm on the verge of hurting myself and I should have taken it easy this past week and didn't. I may as well take it easy now before I get an injury that could take weeks to heal. I also took some Advil and will be icing my Achilles down a few times a day. 

My first race is in 4 weeks and my "A" race is in 8 weeks. I want to be fresh for those races. It never fails, once you start speedwork your chances of injury go way up. This week I'm going to take it easy and only run two times and at a moderate pace. I'm not going to do this weeks running and biking speedwork sessions. I figure that one week of training normal versus speedwork shouldn't hurt and the alternative is possibly getting injured. 

On the liver front I decided to do a spread sheet to see if I could find any relationships between the high GGT, AST, ALP and Bilirubin. I put down the blood work results since 2006 and added exercise, medications, beer consumption and weight. The only thing that I saw that was apparent was that when my level of exercise increased dramatically so did my enzymes levels. Yesterday my buddy Gord was doing some research and suggested it could be the amount of exercise I do. One thing is for certain, more test's will be required to determine the cause.

Rest & Recovery Day.

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