Jeff Runs the Voodoo Down My Saturday long runs follow a medium-long run on Fridays at marathon pace. This means I run them a little slower--which is good. Today was just 10 miles. The pain in my leg has migrated from my IT band over towards my groin. It hurts in front at the top of my quads and in my groin. The groin pain feels like an old injury I obtained while helping my brother-in-law move years ago. I was carrying a large piece of furniture by myself, which was a big mistake. I made some radical move to adjust how I was carrying it for better balance and something popped. There was this constant dull pain there for years and I'm not sure when it really went away. It did though. Until now. I've started wearing compression shorts and they help. Also, running seems to help. At least, after a few miles, it doesn't really hurt while I run. Stacie got out earlier than I did today, so I ran with my iPod for the first time in a while. One of my better long run songs, "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down," by Miles Davis came on and it is great for long runs. First of all, it has the word "Run" in the title. It is also 14 minutes long with a nice, steady, laid-back groove that is great for maintaining a relaxed pace. But it does move along. The other two people who read this blog might disagree because there aren't any words or chord changes. There is just one weird part where either Joe Zawinul or Chick Corea or both kind of spaz out on the electric piano for a couple of minutes that is kind of hard to run to, but other than that, I could run or mountain bike to that song all day long. I'd mention the album name, but it contains a word that some people in this community find offensive. There are contexts in which it is perfectly acceptable. It is used in about 10-20% of the all-female or female-heavy Ragnar Relay team names, so maybe it is more acceptable to throw around in the running community. (Please note that a female-heavy team is not the same as a heavy-female team. By female-heavy I mean at least 50% female--though some of the heavy-female team names might also use this term.) Just to resolve some apparent ambiguity, this is the term that is used more in dog-breeding and not some sort of mammalian reference--which tends to be included in at least 50% of the all-female or female-heavy team names. At any rate, the album name is a play on the phrase, "witch's brew" and now that I have gone all this way to avoid using the word, you've spent far more time thinking about it than you would have if I had just used the word in the first place. Workout Data
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