my week was majorly impacted by some groin pain that began around tuesday.
still tried to do a track workout mid-week, planned 4x(800, 600, 400) but had to scale it way back to just 2 sets, partially due to the groin but also because I was getting slower and wasn't feeling good. had little reason to keep pushing through it as I wanted to not make my groin any worse.
ran like 3 miles for a couple days, then decided that if on Saturday I felt good I'd do 25-30mi around 6:40-7:00s. knew it wasn't going to happen after about 4 miles but pushed on for 20 miles at around 6:55s. really struggled just to keep running in this one, a mental battle not unlike the end of long distance races.
took sunday off even though the groin didn't hurt.
hit 55ish miles and hopefully can get going again this week.
by the way, this is a reoccuring injury since about 2012/2013 and it's undiagnosed. it rarely hurts enough to make me not run, but I want it to go away so I'm being cautious. days off don't seem to help much.
next week I might do a 4 mile road race if my groin is 90% or better. might be a solo time trial in which case I might go for 5:05s. the fastest I've run 3.1 miles since June 2016 is 15:55ish (ran 15:41 in 2016) so it would be cool to snag another sub-16 as a split.