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Marathon training week 1
Week 1 didn't go well.
Tuesday: 3 painful, slow miles. Everything hurt and I was still trying to kick the cold. Hooray marathon.
Wednesday: 3 slightly less painful, even slower miles. I went for a much smaller stride, higher turn over, but yeah, those were 12 min miles. Still came home with some hip pain.
Friday: 2.2 ok, kinda slow miles - this was ( Read more... ) -
Med-city 1/2 marathon race report
One of the things about this race that made it so different from the races I've done in the past is how small it was. It was really a decent size with about 1500 people doing the 1/2 marathon and 200 people doing the marathon. Still, this was in comparison to the 40,000 people I did the mini-marathon with or the 25,000 people at the Detroit ( Read more... ) -
last run before the race!
My training plan actually had 3 runs in a row for the weekend - saturday, sunday, monday. And then not another run until the race. I was sluggish on my run on Sunday and decided moving Monday's run back a day wouldn't hurt. Tuesday morning, I made an attempt to adjust my hip, did some stretching and headed out for 4 miles around the regular loop. ( Read more... ) -
post-5k suddenly summer sunday run
We are into taper territory now, so after yesterday's 5k, I only had 4 miles on the plan today. Good thing too! All last week I was very tired, and I didn't sleep well on Friday night. I seem to have made up for that now. Saturday afternoon was a 2 hour nap, and I went to bed at 9:30 last night. I've slept 11 hours in the last 24. I got up around 7 ( Read more... ) -
pre-rapture 5k
Last year, Alex and I did the Save the Manatee 5k out at Metro Beach Metropark. Alex was convinced he'd registered for it, but his packet was nowhere to be found. The race director was super apologetic and gave him a t-shirt and a race number. He PR'd the race and got a medal! We got home to find out that he had in fact, never registered. He felt ( Read more... ) -
two for one thursday
I realize that doesn't rhyme. But, it's not Tuesday and nobody is thirsty. Wednesday's run was 5 miles, and I did the CBD to WSU route again. The route goes right by my office, and I'm always on the look out for coworkers to wave to. I saw somebody one time, but she was too far away and I didn't think seeing your coworker...at your office was ( Read more... ) -
srsly, what is wrong with people?
I ran my regular 4 mile route this morning. Up until about 30 minutes in the most remarkable thing about the run was how good my hip felt. Saturday night Alex helped me pop things back into place. I felt good on Sunday and I actually got out of bed and felt like my legs were the same this morning. My left hamstring complained a little as I got ( Read more... ) -
raaiiiinnn
There was pretty much no getting around running in the rain this morning. I had 5 miles on my plan, and after his 12.4 mile long run yesterday Alex was interested in running 0 miles. It was raining when we got up, although the radar seemed to indicate that it would let up eventually. We'd decided the night before that we would do the 4 mile loop ( Read more... ) -
a whole bunch of tired workouts
Man, I'm tired. That 24 mile peak week last week must have something to do with it.
Wednesday
I was lucky enough to be able to do the 5 mile run outside. I think it was maybe 55 degrees out? I ran my 5 mile loop down through the CBD and back up to WSU. I'm happy to say that I've established how the signals at Washington and Larned/Congress are timed ( Read more... ) -
treadmill tuesday
Somewhere, I probably have an entry about how the treadmill "isn't all that bad". This is not that entry. I've slept really well the last two nights, and this morning I woke up before my 5:45 alarm, ready to rock and roll. Or at least, roll over. There where huge claps of thunder and when the radio came on they said there were isolated ( Read more... )