I run, therefore I am…919 kilometers farther than I was Dec 31 2007
Today I ran a 5 km with 5 walk breaks with Marilyn. I felt nothing in my calf which is a good thing. Still, I had a nagging shadow in my mind that said to me “That’s hard enough, no faster.” We did the run in 45:42
Got home, did my regular upper [...]
Mistakes made = lessons learned.
Mistake number 1: Ignoring that first initial calf muscle pull August 12th. I rested one day and the next day it was gone. As you know it was never really healed and reoccurred on the flat less than 100 meters from the finish line of my August 25th [...]
Today I walked 5 km then stretched out and did some upper body exercises as I do after every outing. I walked it in 57 minutes. I can’t begin to tell you how it tears my heart out not to run.
Believe me, I was chomping at the bit but I knew I could [...]
OK OK. In hindsight (I am looking at my training log), I may have kept pushing too much after I pulled my calf muscle the first time on August 12th. I thought I was taking it easy but I see now that after that half where I pulled a calf muscle and also [...]
Today’s race in Terwilliger Park in Edmonton was run in cloudy and cool weather. I got up at 6 AM, got ready and headed for the race with Marilyn who had to be there at 8 AM since she was a volunteer. So I had a lot of time to kill before the [...]
Cloudy and very windy day today. I went for my 5 km speed run and decided I did not have time to mess with my new Mizuno shoes and the laces and whatnot so I slipped on my old Saucony shoes and headed out. I managed to reach the halfway point in 14:52 [...]
Over the next year or two I will be training for this race and reading all I can about it. From what I have read so far I think one of my goals should be to “armor plate” my quad muscles for downhill running. I must ask everyone I can how best avoid [...]
