I sprained the MCL in my right knee early in 2002. I went to physical therapy for it a few years later, but the outcome ranged from "my knee hurts some" to "my knee hurts a lot when I stand" to "my knee just hurts all the time and is unstable" as the years went by. I stopped running with any seriousness after 2014 and more or or less completely ( Read more... )

I haven't run a 5K since I ran my company's race in 2014, but I figured that this year I'd at least run my company's 5K again. I'm not doing any running, and biking hasn't been consistent due to weather and schedule, so the only cardio I'm getting is CrossFit. Throw in some cold, windy weather and I was not at all surprised that I ran my worst 5K ( Read more... )

As with years past, my employer hosted a 5K, and I ran it. The big difference is that this year I'm pretty sure I'm not going to try for the jacket my employer gives to people who do 4 5Ks, so I haven't been running, just bikingIt therefore came as no surprise to me that my times in today's race were absolutely nothing special even though it was an ( Read more... )

Last year I PRed at this race. This year, with similar conditions (mid-50s, lots of cloud cover, not humid, flat but twisty course, relatively few runners) I came in at 32:16. This means that my best 5K of the year was my first one; everything after that was slower ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I ran a 5K. Unfortunately, the chip timer flat out did not work, so I can't point you at the official results to see my times. Fortunately two of my coworkers ran with me (ok, technically AHEAD of me) and I have a nice t-shirt so I can plausibly prove that I did actually run it ( Read more... )

The Color Run is the going fad in themed runs. The very first race was in 2012 and now it's a nationwide race held at many various locations throughout the year. The gimmick is that runners are outfitted with white T-shirts and then sprayed with dyed cornstarch as they run along the course. At the end it looks like they went through a tie-dye car ( Read more... )

It was time for the first 5-K of the year. The Hy-5K is out at my place of employment, which means that it is a nice flat loop course. Weather conditions were optimal; not too humid, nice cloud cover, not too hot. It was a little crowded right at the start but it soon cleared out ( Read more... )

Because it came up for some reason today.

2 miles - 14:25 - August 1995. For high school football linemen had to run a 14:30 on the first day of practice. If you failed, you did it again the next day before practice. And the day after that. And so on, although eventually the time required would start rising. Going into my senior year I had never ( Read more... )

So after some internal debate last year I ended up doing some running during the summer. I ran 51 training runs for 101.3 miles total. Yes, I'm anal-retentive. I also did four official 5Ks (posting a PR of a relatively lousy 29:03) which netted me a shiny jacket from my employer. I also lost seven pounds but did not otherwise improve my health ( Read more... )

So, I ran my four 5Ks and earned the jacket. Between that and my dietary changes did I actually improve my health numbers? After all, I ran 51 times this year between April 29 and October 7 for a total of 101.3 miles. That's admittedly only about 2.3 runs per week, but injuries have to be respected, and that total doesn't include ultimate either. ( Read more... )