I decided to try to make it out for a run today; not bad considering that I hadn’t managed one all week.  We were told to do the Grove loop, 14 or so miles, and headed out in a solid mass.  I was feeling pretty light-headed but my jaw was taking the pounding okay, probably because I’d taken another hydrocodone just before leaving the house.

Unfortunately, while I managed to hang on okay for the first five miles to the waterstop at ACC, heading back my legs started to get heavy and tired.  It felt like a “mile-22″ run, to be honest.  I was catching my form slipping, and I just wasn’t able to maintain even our fairly modest 9:00 pace without struggling.  Some of this was due to the humidity, and some due to the fact that I hadn’t run all week, but a big chunk of it I’m blaming on the pills as well.

Bottom line?  By our second waterstop at about 8 miles in, I’d had enough.  I took it easy and backed off from the herd, choosing to cut over at the South First bridge and settle for about 10 for the day.  Which means I had a 10 mile week as well.  The good news is that things are getting better.  The bad news is that, well, they’re not better right now.  I know, I’m impatient.  But still — this is frustrating.

Tomorrow we have Circuit, which I could really use.  Then its mile repeats on Wednesday, and we’re scheduled for our first 18 miler on Saturday — a great course too, running the middle portion of the Austin marathon course in reverse (kinda) then coming back down again.  Hopefully I can handle it…

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