Daily Archives: Thursday, July 31, 2008

I have been considering my options since my last failed attempt at a 32 km training run. It was supposed to be my last long run before my taper. After that the taper was to be 23 km this Sunday, 17 km next Sunday, then the following Sunday is the 42.2 km marathon August 17th. I definitely overdid it at karate in terms of knee/quad work and this did contribute to my failed attempt last Wednesday. But that isn’t the whole story. I am sure many factors resulted in my knees acting up and I can’t begin to list them all. I do know that my knees have been good for a couple of years now, and so has my arthritic big toe. Apart from my calf injury last fall it has been a good number of months, even years, of running. The question now is, given that my marathon … Continue reading →