Bret

AM - 3.5 miles on the trail with Dan and the dogs - dark and foggy - stayed only on the trail with multiple loops around the pond.  

AM - 3.25 miles with Dan and the dogs on the horsetrail roads.   Running faster paces on these shorter runs for some reason. 

AM - 3.75 miles with Dan and Finn on the Milton Trail.   

AM - 2 miles before an early flight to NYC. 

AM - 3 miles in Midtown up to Central Park.  Upper 60's before sunrise and humid.  Record marathon high temps for tomorrow.  Effort will be measured accordingly.  

New York City Marathon 2022 - not a bad day all things considered - this was my 12th NYC and although my fastest times are in my past when I head into races now - my mindset is still to try to do the best I can given my training/fitness at the time and the conditions on race day.  Well this years race was the warmest in its history from what I read.  Humid and sticky mid 60's dew point and temperature at the start and it would get to 74 degrees by the later miles in the race.  We were fortunate that there were mostly cloudy conditions at times. 
My race plan was to run to feel and to keep my heart rate aerobic not to exceed 150.  Unfortunately that number was out the window by about 7 miles.  I allowed myself to edge up to the upper 150's knowing my anaerobic limit is about 162.  My pace was solidly in the upper 7's dipping under 7:30 a few times until late in the race when I went above 163 HR for too long around mile 21.  Then it was just a matter of time for the pace unravel a bit. I think I had a few miles in the mid 8's and generally it was a bit unpleasant from 22 to the finish.  

Happy with 3:31 on the day.  Probably was good for maybe 5 mins faster if the weather was cooler and drier.  My son-in-law Marcus ran his first NYC today and finished well.  We had the whole family including his parents and my kids and granddaughter here.  Made for a really nice weekend.  

AM - 2 miles "systems check" in NYC the day after.    Reasonably sore and some stingy areas of chafing.  Something wonky going on with the left hip.  Felt a bit better the more I warmed up.  

AM - 3 miles on the trail with Dan and the dogs - got up early and saw the lunar eclipse.  Legs still fairly sore from the marathon - plan to take it easy for several days.  

AM - 3.5 miles with Dan and the dogs on the Milton trail - much cooler this morning - long sleeves, than yesterday which was shirtless.    Something odd going on the with left hip - pretty decent amount of discomfort for the first part of the run; became less of problem after I got warmer - but did not completely go away even at the end.   Perhaps IT band, proximal?

AM - 3.5 miles with Dan and the dogs on the trail.  Left hip was less painful today. 

AM - just under 4.5 miles with the guys and Finn on the horsetrail roads.  

AM - 5k run with Finn early before a brunch we are hosting at the house.  We went to a concert last night - Sheryl Crow, Lionel Richie and Billy Joel - it was fun.  Joel and Richie are both 73 years old and Crow is 60.   Yeah.  Feeling my age. 

AM - 4.25 with Finn on the Nix road loop.   Left hamstring was slightly less troublesome than yesterday.  The IT band issue seems to have subsided - with exercise, foam roller and a few days of recovery.   I resumed strengthening exercises for the hamstring and have been doing some light effort indoor rowing.  

AM - 3.75 miles with Dan and Finn from Dan's house.   Temps the last two days were below freezing.  Dan finally switched from running shorts to pants today.  

AM - 4 miles on the treadmill this morning as it was in the low 40's and raining and Dan had a cold and bailed on running outdoors.   First half mile was a bit uncomfortable with my left hamstring - and right achilles - but after I got warmed up, it was more tolerable.   Did 1500 meters of indoor rowing afterwards - trying to work on strengthening my glutes.  

AM - 3.25 miles with Dan and the dogs on the trail - which was a bit soft but not too muddy following the full of rain yesterday.  1000 meters of indoor rowing afterwards.   Maybe feeling some improvement in the glutes/hamstring....

AM - in St. Louis for business today - cold outside in the mid 20's - staying in a suburb - just wandered through some local streets.  Left hamstring was particularly stiff to start.

AM - 3.5 miles or so with Dan and the dogs on the trail.  Chilly 27 degrees and frost covered.  Left hamstring was less painful today, but we also ran slowly which helped.  

AM - met the guys at the Forsyth Greenway - they were running late- so it allowed me to run a couple warm up miles that got the initial pain and stiffness of the left hamstring to settle down; then did a little over 5 miles with them.  The greenway has been repaired and  upgraded in parts and is probably 70% boardwalk - which is not great for tired legs particularly when it is below freezing outside and the moisture on the wood is frozen in parts.  But it was a nice morning and we had a good run.   Encountered a lost doggie on the way back and called the number on his collar (went to voicemail).  He ran the last two miles or so with us back to the trailhead and then scampered ahead when he seemed to see familiar surroundings and took off into the new neighborhood and was out of our sight.  We assumed he belonged to someone in there.   

AM - 3.5 miles with Dan and Finn on the trail before church.   

AM - a little over 3.5 miles with Dan and the dogs on the Milton Trail (Wood Rd) - temperature in my truck said 24 - but it felt colder than that today.   We've had it seems a solid week of sub-freezing early morning temps - not climbing above the 40's most days.  Dan leaves for a trip tomorrow to see family for the holiday in Connecticut.   Greg is having an ablation procedure on his heart today to address his problem with a-fib...we each texted him good luck before our run this morning.  

Youngest daughter, Delaney arrives here midday today for the Thankgiving week and middle one, Riley arrives with her fiance, Sam on Wednesday.   Looking forward to enjoying some family time and meals and the traditional 5k run/turkey trot Thursday morning.

AM - 3.25 miles with Finn through neighborhood (the route that looks like a picture of hummingbird on the strava map) - Dan is off with his family in Connecticut; Greg's heart procedure was successful yesterday, but he's probably not going to be running for a little while until he is fully recovered.

I did a 1000 meters on the indoor rower.  Later in the day after having heated my pool for 2 days to get the temperture up from 47 degrees - did some deep water running to help the left hamstring.   Not sure why that seems to work for me - probably helps with bloodflow to the muscle or tendon; anyway, by later that evening it felt really remarkably improved.

AM - 3.25 miles with Finn on the trail.  Pace was slow but the pain level was down to a 3 from yesterday when it was near a 5 in the left hamstring.   I did soem indoor rowing again and then after lunch did some more deep water running.  

AM - Atlanta Thanksgiving Day 5k with my family which included Delaney Riley and Sam this year.   We were missing Bradlea and Marcus as little Kaia was sick this morning.  We all ran together and ended up with a surprisingly decent pace this year at just over 9 min per mile.  It's an early start but it was nice to be finished and heading back home by 8 am.    Happy Thanksgiving 🦃!

AM - 3.25 miles with Finn - high hamstring tendonopathy felt particularly unpleasant today and I am catching a cold.  

AM - 3.25 miles on the trail with Finn.  This was day 1,000 on my run streak.  I would have liked to have done a lot longer run but the head cold and hamstring had other plans.  Nice morning however and I made the best of it.   Not everyday is perfect and I love running on good days but on bad ones I run anyway and there's usually something I can find that makes me feel it was worthwhile.  Today was a good day despite my ailment and injuries.  The weather was cool but pleasant and the scenery was beautiful for a late fall morning- I let Finn of leash and he had a ball. 

AM - heavy rains and thunderstorms early this morning so I stayed inside on the treadmill  for a little over 3 miles. 

AM - 4.75 miles with Dan and the dogs on the trail.  Good conversation catching-up on each other's holiday weekend.   My cold is hanging on and seems worse today than the first few days, bleah.   Hamstring was a bit better perhaps responding to the strengthen exercises I have been doing.  

AM - 4.75 miles - same route as yesterday with Dan and the dogs.  

AM - heavy thunderstorms this morning and overnight - so I stayed indoors on the treadmill.   My cold is actually worse today than each preceding day.