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Apr 02, 2005

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Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

97th at Boston

1:09:40 Half Marathon

2:25:50 Marathon

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get healthy enough to enjoy a run again.

Long-Term Running Goals:

To be able to do it... long term.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Baby Jogger Lifetime Miles:						623.95
Kinvara Lifetime Miles:						313.32
Asics TRI Lifetime Miles:						610.65
Pegasus Lifetime Miles:						520.90
Kinvara2 Lifetime Miles:						350.20
Ghost Yellow Lifetime Miles:						374.25
Kestrel Bike Lifetime Miles:						1883.75
NB- Rainbow Lifetime Miles:						57.80
Red Cumulus Lifetime Miles:						594.95
Neon Launch Lifetime Miles:						533.40
DS Trainer Lifetime Miles:						467.77
Green Pegasus Lifetime Miles:						479.75
Lunerglide Lifetime Miles:						276.70
Blue Pegasus Lifetime Miles:						528.06
NoosTri Lifetime Miles:						283.07
BlueKinvara Lifetime Miles:						216.60
Innov Lifetime Miles:						58.50
Ride Lifetime Miles:						207.45
NavPeg Lifetime Miles:						162.50
Green K5's Lifetime Miles:						88.00

Mon, May 15, 2006

Total Distance

11.50

Went on my big loop run. The first mile and a half my calves were as hard as a rock. I couldn't keep any kind of a pace. It didn't help that the first 3 miles are some good uphill. Then after I got to the top of the hill I finally started to enjoy the run and my calves started to loosen up. With only a half mile left my wife pulled up to the side of me in the car and at that point I just decided to get in so instead of 12 I only got 11.5 miles in. I didn't feel to bad about it.

Overall I felt the run was good. I'm not sure why my calves were so tight at the first. It could be that on Sunday I was sitting for hours at airports and on planes. Then on Monday back at work I was in a meeting for nine and a half hours just sitting there. With all that sitting- then going out on a run... maybe thats why. Or I could have just been sore from my last tread mill run on Saturday night in NYC. I ran it at a good speed and tread mills are harder on your calves.?

Who knows...

Comments

From wildbull on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:21:24

good work out. your probably right about the tread mill. it is harder on the calves. I guess you evaded getting mugged in central park. they probably just could not catch you. your getting in 11 to 12 miles a day with one work out.

Frank Shorter

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

From Sasha Pachev on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:43:31

What Frank Shorter says is very true. That is why I tell people to work on their 5 K speed before they even try a marathon. A 3 hour marathon hurts a lot less than a 4 hour one.

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