Daily Archives: Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Run 3, 2010 …all the world’s a track…

Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Administrator

All the world’s a track, And all the men and women merely runners: They have their exits and their entrances; And one runner in his time plays many parts… And so today I ran at the indoor track. I ran 6 laps for a warm up, then began my 44 lap 10 km time trial. My pace was 6:40 per kilometer so I ran it in 1:06:36. In all I did 11.36 (50 laps) km today. Then I walked a few extra laps for a cool down. Did my stretches and some push ups after. Then I went to the pool where something new happened. After only a few minutes of just bobbing around a small area in my left calf muscle began contracting uncontrollably over an area about the size of a dollar coin, causing me a considerable amount of incapacitating pain. No sooner did that settle down a … Continue reading →

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Running indoors? Sure, why not?

Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 by Administrator

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, I’m so excited! Why am I excited? Because tomorrow is the one day of the week when I get to run indoors, where I can wear shorts and a T-shirt instead of layers of winter running gear and slogging it through the icy and unforgiving cold, which I do twice a week anyway. In the winter I like to run indoors once a week but I don’t like treadmills. Our local indoor walking/running track requires 4.4 laps per kilometer, which means 10 km is 44 laps. I like to do 50 laps though which is approximately 11.36 km. I’ve been doing this every winter for a while now and I’ve discovered that there is no way I can keep count of that many laps. Oh sure, it’s all fun and games for the first few laps, and easy to keep count, but after the … Continue reading →

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