Fast Running Soldier

Longer run today. My left knee was really hurting. It started right about mile 3 and I was pretty much straight legged running the rest of the way in. My IT band was acting up. Hopefully it was just the cold weather. I may take off the rest of the week to make sure it feels alright.

9:13  9:07  9:03  9:42  9:21  9:19 = 9:20AP

Eliptical today. Went for an hour and felt pretty good. No knee pain.

A nice easy run today. My knee was hurting from last weeks run, so today I didn't want to push it too far. After the run we did a 50-40-30-20-10 pyramid of push-ups and the ab 300 workout.

Felt good again today. I think my little knee problem may be gone. It may have been weather related, only to the extent that it has been pretty cold here and I wonder if I hadn't warmed up enough to stretch it out. I won't try for any crazy distances, but I think I can start picking it up a little bit.

8:13  7:43  7:51 = 7:52

Shortened the run today. Don't want to jump in too quickly with the high mileage. Tomorrow or Friday I will try for a 5-6 mile run and see how I feel.

7:30  8:27  and .5 in 4:19 = 8:03 AP

Had a good run this morning. It has been a few days since the last one, and I felt it! The cold may have added to not feeling well, especially in the chest. But I think it was mostly taking a few days off and probably not eating the best over the weekend in Slovenia. Looking to get more consistent this week.

7:48  7:48  7:38  7:30 = 7:41AP 

Nice run this morning. It was much slower, but it was alright. Ran with my old Platoon Sergeant.

8:55  9:21  9:29  9:48 = 9:31AP

Finally back on the road after a few days off. Slow running with a pretty out of shape soldier.

9:49  10:26  10:27 = 10:09AP

Had a nice longer run today. My IT band was starting to bug me a bit, not sure how much of it was the distance or it being so cold. I am sure it was a mixture of both. Average pace was pretty slow, but we had some good hills.

8:33  8:30  9:10  8:48  8:48  8:27 = 8:42AP

Knee started hurting again, so I just went a mile then into the gym on a stationary bike. Did 7 miles on that in just about 30 min. Hopefully tomorrow the knee will feel better and weather will be warmer.

A good run today. Did some tempo stuff, but it wasn't anything amazing. The tempos were fairly short, somewhere between 250m to 450m or so, with about as much rest. Nothing scientific or numbers oriented about it.

8:34  8:18  8:41 and .5 at 4:14 = 8:38 AP

Another good run today. Didn't feel the knee at all which is encouraging.

9:13  8:01  7:41  and .5 in 3:05 = 8:14AP

Another nice long run and the knee wasn't hurting at all. Pace was a little slow, but we had a pretty big hill. All and all it was a good time.

8:43  8:04  9:10  8:10  8:31   8:03 = 8:33 AP

Felt pretty good today again. Shorter run, but things were great.

9:32  9:00  8:58

Felt good today. Haven't run for a few days, but got a pretty decent run in at a good pace.

8:17  7:23  7:29  7:20 = 7:37AP

A good longer run today. I felt pretty good except for our .50 mile hill. At one point I was able to stary jogging up the whole thing, but now I have to stop and walk a portion of it. It is a pretty intense uphill portion.

8:54  9:36  9:51  11:33  9:36  8:38  = 9:26AP

Ran today with our BDE XO. It was more of a mentorship run since he has been a Company Commander for the unit that I will be going to. I wanted to hit him up on some quesions regarding the unit and what to expect. It was a decent run.

9:08  9:12  9:04  8:39 = 8:59AP

Had an enjoyable run on the treadmill at the gym today. Haven't been on a treadmill for a while and this was a good reason to keep using the treadmill every so often. I like being able to set it at a speed that I know is accurate and one that I want to hit. Ended up running just a bit slower than a 7:30 pace.

Ran well today, averaged a 7:27 pace. Last run in Italy!

Ran today at the hotel on the treadmill. It is an old school treadmill, but it was nice and I had a good time.

Ran on the treadmill again. Averaged a 7:40 pace. Finished the run with a 6:58 pace for the past .30 mile.

Good run here at Ft. Benning. Back and ready to start at my new unit. Felt pretty bad for a lot of the run, my IT band was acting up. I stretched it out around mile 5 and it felt great the rest of the way...should have done that about mile 1.

Getting ready to deploy here in a couple of days. Won't be gone long, but nonetheless leaving family is no fun...

Quick workout today.

Wow, who ever thought I would go for a run in Doha, Qatar. Check that box. It is super hot here already and if it wasn't for 20 mph winds it would have been already too hot at 7:00am. The winds plus not running very consistently lately lead to a bad run today...just didn't feel very good. Averaged an 8:18 pace.

Good run felling a little better. Ran with a buddy who is not in as good of shape, so it slowed me down, but I needed to stay slow to make sure I don't get hurt. Good times.

Good run here in Afghanistan. I need to get more of these in while at this altitude. Didn't feel great today, but better than Qatar.

Took another run today, a little shorter but just glad to be able to get out of the little office and get some runs in.

Back in the States. Couldn't really sleep because of the time change and how much I slept on the plane coming home, so I got up a little early and went for a run. Felt pretty good too.

7:54  7:45  7:43  7:28  7:18 = 7:37 AP 

Another good run, unfortunately I haven't gotten out for a few days.

8:14  7:44  7:41  7:48  7:38 = 7:48 AP 

Felt really good today considering I still had a full stomach from dinner...at least it felt that way. I tried to keep it slow, around an 8:00 pace, but the second half of the run my stomach felt better and it just ran what was comfortable. I changed up my route to a more circular one, and I liked it a lot better. I think I will stick with this one for a while. 

7:54  7:45  7:43  7:28  7:18 = 7:37 

This morning's run felt great. I started off slower and worked my way into a faster run. I seem to naturally do this on almost all my runs. I am not sure if it is a good thing or not since I don't think there is anyway I could hit my first while within 45 seconds of my last...I guess not everyone has fast-twitch muscles. I was very happy with my last mile, especially since route is not so flat, mostly rolling hills.

8:04  7:42  7:25  7:04  6:59 = 7:26 AP 

Nice run this morning. Pretty slow, just had a good time with some buddies around post for PT.

I felt great today. My GPS watch is not reading the satellites though for some reason...

Watch started working again. Today was great, hit 5 miles in 37:10 and wasn't really pushing it.

Today felt great. I hit negative splits on each mile and hit my last mile pretty quick. I could have probably kept it up for another mile or so, maybe more. I felt pretty good.

7:51  7:33  7:24  7:11  6:55 = 7:23AP 

A good run around the house. It has been a little while, but I felt okay.