Craig Hudman - Simply Live

Outisde again. Great weather, ran the summer bench route which always has some wind coming out of the canyon and man it was cold but it wasn't too bad, much better than a TM. Ran a easy 5 mile warm up and then into a progression run ending at a 6:20 pace. I have been worried about how the speed workouts on a TM will translate to the outside so today I pushed it a bit and felt strong, a good reassurance.

The new shoes feel good although I could have gone 1/2 size smaller and probably been better off. I like that the heel only has a 4mm rise so it is almost flat. It seems to be helping insure a better mid foot strike for me. 

Decided to keep track of my dog miles. He will probably get in some unlogged miles with my wife but it will be good to see how much I drag him out this year. 

AM - 5 Miles with Nikki this morning. Why is it that when you have a kid in grade school sicknesses are passed along constantly? I'm starting to fight off a cold that has been through 3 of my kids in the last week. I hope the preloading with drugs helps out.

PM - After lamenting about not having outside gear in my bag today, I hopped on the TM and went right into a MP run. 8/51:56/6:29. Felt like I was just starting to warm up when I hopped off. Also feel like this cold is starting to come on stronger. Plan is to hydrate good, eat lots of oranges and drug up. 

AM - 7.86 Easy miles in 59:58 this morning. It was clear but a little cold. My dog wanted to go much faster but I had zero desire to run much of a pace this morning. Enjoyable.

PM - 6.25 The symptoms of the "cold" are definitely coming on strong. Loaded up on drugs and headed to the gym incase I needed an early bailout. Still tried, due to stupidity, to do a progression run. Didn't get too far before I quit touching the TM and just ran. Runs like this make me wonder why I push myself...still trying to figure that out.

Easy 8 mile run with my wife's friend Cheryl who needed more miles than my wife and her friends wanted to run. Ran the hill route then met up with the girl group. My wife had brought my dog at this point so I left the group and took off with him. I can always count on him to keep the pace honest. Finished out remainder of the run at or below pace with the last 1/2 mile at a 5:50.

I tried something different today and ate a bowl of grape nuts before, like 10 minutes, I went out. I felt good throughout and there were no ill effects from eating. I could tell that I was running out of gas towards the end. 

AM - 5 with Nikki this morning. She did better than she has in a while. I was even able to get her into a much faster than normal progression in the last mile. She didn't complain so I kept upping it slowly. Ended with her feeling great. Good way to start off the week.

PM - 6.71. Not what it was supposed to be. Today was the first day of my training schedule. I warmed up 3 miles at MP then into what was supposed to be 4 at HMP. 2 miles into HMP my foot started burning and my ankle really started hurting so I back it back down to MP then cranked it back up but I felt the blister forming and the ankle never loosened up. So now as I sit here my foot is still burning and my ankle is screaming at me. I thought after a break yesterday and the way it felt this morning I was good to go. Now I might spin for the rest of the week :( not sure what I'll do, might tape and keep running through it. Either way it's ice and not walking for the rest of the day.

After yesterday's ankle melt down I was playing today by feel. So when I woke up my ankle ached so I went back to bed and slept in. I went to the gym and decided to spin figuring that would be much better. I can now say that there is something more mind numbing than a TM. However, my ankle feels much better and I can say my body hasn't felt that good during or after a workout in quite awhile. Which leads to my next decision to spin for the next few days and start running on Friday tentatively and do a long run on Saturday. So I'm spinning for the same amount of time as my runs would take me and hope I can get something out of them but my mileage is going to be higher than normal.

10.5 on the bike in 32 min / 3.7 on the eliptical 33 min. Can't say as I like either that much. My rear is now saddle sore, don't know how bikers do it. I was tempted to run today but somehow managed to control myself and stick to my plan. Ankle still is really soft.

Last day of spinning, hopefully. Ankle is still not right but I'm going to try and run tomorrow AM with my wife at what should be a really soft pace and go from there. 20 miles of spinning does not equal 10 miles of running in effort. It always takes some time to work into the cardio and HR I'm looking for on a bike.

So my wife is still on her weight loss kick and she keeps asking me what to do and I always say run more. I found this quote which proves my point.

 If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want -- Why? Because

(a) you'll burn all the calories you consume,

(b) you deserve it, and

(c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway,

-- Don Kardong

AM - 6.68 Easy run with Nikki trying to test the ankle out. It was good to run but I'm still concerned about my ankle. The first couple of miles loosened it up a bit but I still was feeling a "twinge" from my ankle that would shoot up to my knee occasionally. I'm going to run another soft run this afternoon before I decide what to do tomorrow.

PM - 5 Started off with an easy pace and after three miles my ankle loosened up a bit so I kicked it up to MP for one and into a progression for the last mile finishing the last .25 at 5:50. Now, the ankle still does not feel good and I'm really debating what I'm going to do tomorrow. I have a LR on the schedule and am thinking of doing loops so I can bail out at any time. Time to start drugging up and hoping. If not I'll be visiting my favorite neighbor. 

Woke up this morning with my ankle feeling better than it has in a couple of weeks so I decided to do my scheduled long run. I still wanted my option to bail out at about any time so I ran a mile from my house to do a 3 mile loop. The plan was 5x3m progressing each loop with the mile to and from my house as a warm up / cool down. 

1 - 20:46 (6:55)

2 - 20:28 (6:49) 

3 - 20:14 (6:45)

4 - 19:44 (6:35)

5 - 19:17 (6:25)

 Overall with wm/cd 17/1:55/6:45. Overall felt really good. Ankle held up although there still is a "twinge" but not like it has been. 

The only time my ankle feels good is when I'm laced on advil, which makes sense because I took some Friday night before I went to bed and some when I woke up Saturday. It hurt so bad this morning and yesterday that I didn't run this morning. Moving into a RV show today and almost puked because it hurt until I took advil.

The only way its going to get better is just let it heal instead of killing it daily. I may take the whole week off, probably not, I couldn't do that. Two days is killing me already. Still feels the same. This stinks.

One more rest day before I test the ankle again. Feeling a little better but I haven't really gone off the ibuprofen yet. All I know is it's messing up my stomach. 

Anterior Tibial Tendonitis...eat Ibuprofen like skittles, ice every night. I saw my neighbor/Doctor/Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Casey Huntsman. Good thing is running won't hurt it more, it will just hurt. Tracing this back to when it started. It probably can be attributed to running in minimalist shoes (Brooks PureFlow). He told me I need to wear shoes with better "support". SO I guess I deserve it and wasted money (they are officially out of the rotation now) Does anyone know of a good place with a knowledgeable staff that can hook me up with better shoes?......Internet shopping v. Local Running Company.......Yep my fault again.

Easy run with Nikki. Ankle is feeling a little better after the break. Still, I'm loading up on ibuprofen and icing. Planning on an evening run and a long run tomorrow. Might have to go and get some new shoes tonight.

Group run, had to loop back early due to ankle pain. This tendonitis sucks. Came home early iced, loaded on ibuprofen and went back to sleep.

Ankle ok at best. Kept the run short don't want to stress it too much. Iced and heated yesterday. Stayed off ibuprofen. After run a little tender now in a brace and will ice a couple times tonight. Might try a little longer run tomorrow AM and spin at lunch.

I've went back to spinning in order to give my ankle a break. Yesterday it felt ok, last night it hurt bad, today it is feeling ok and I haven't taken any ibuprofen. I just want this to go away and I'm having the hardest time resting it but I also feel like I'm going through a burnout phase so this rest might be happening at the right time.

Felt like I needed to get in some type of a quality speed workout today. So I warmed up a mile then went 1 M at MP then 3 at HMP then 4 at MP then a short cool down. 9/56:56/6:20. Would have liked to have done more at HMP but I am feeling the effects of not running much the last couple of weeks. Is seems like my endurance has gone into the tank. Heart rate was much higher than normal at these paces.

Talked with my wife about the whole burnout issue and she talked a little sense into me telling me nothing is fun when you're hurt...makes sense, I guess she is always right.

Ankle feeling a bit better, no ibuprofen yesterday, a little before the run today. It doesn't hurt so much to walk on but is very sensitive to touch (very painful) I can put any pressure on it without a ton of pain. Walking and run, not much pain.

Today's work got aborted. The plan was to spin 30 minutes then run 30 minutes. I barely had enough motivation to last the bike. Hit the TM only to last one mile. Ankle hurt some but what's new? I've ran through that before. Just didn't have it today. This is a day I wish I could go climb back into to bed and sleep 12 hours or so, wake up eat and go take a nap and somewhere in-between find motivation.

At least work has been good today. I usually run to take my mind off of work and today I'm enjoying work and hoping to forget about the workout.

AM - easy run with Nikki. It's been a while since I've ran with my wife, ankle and all. It was really good to get out and here the coyotes this morning.  ankle = better than usual, we'll see what this afternoon brings. 

Woke up to high winds, so I went to the gym. It was kind of nice because I slept in, took my time getting ready, ate breakfast and slowly found my way to the gym. Good, bad or ugly I preloaded with ibuprofen to make it through my run. Ankle felt surprisingly good and I got through the run without much pain. Slight twinge around 12 or 13. 

First 13 or so at slow MP then kicked it up to goal pace to finish off. Didn't have much left at the end, no surprise my fitness has taken a dive the last couple of weeks . 16/1:45:56/6:37

Today I found out I was accepted as a tester for Brooks. Not a real big deal but I'm excited. Maybe they'll send me an anti-chaff shirt to test out...haha.

I was way too lazy to get out of bed this morning and go running. I'm still debating on rather to do doubles or not this week. Today was the first day I have not wore an ankle brace. It is still very soft to the touch but is handling running and walking much better now. I did my run non-aided (no ibuprofen) for the first time in awhile and am still able to walk.  My attitude is doing a little better. I was pretty miserable the last couple weeks when I couldn't walk or run without pain. Almost normal again.

TM run. easy pace with 10x100 at VO2 Max thrown in. Trying to get back into my scheduled runs and program. 10.1/1:06:30 

Well, the dog was a little crazy this morning so we went out much faster than I wanted. My money is on the new snow invoked some sort of inner sled dog and he took off from the start. Before I realized it I had 3 miles at 6:15 pace. I knew it wasn't going to last and came back down to a 6:35 for 9.1 before I picked my wife up for another 5 at a much much slower pace, which felt refreshing.

Hills are now really kicking my butt. 

5 mile shakeout in 40 minutes at the gym. Heart rate was ok. Everything felt ok. Haven't really done a push like this in a while so I don't quite remember feeling this blown up. My body is pretty tired but I have an easy run planned again for tomorrow.

Ankle brace is back on. Shouldn't have left it home yesterday. Still drug free. I feel like I'm out of rehab.

I hate gossip. This week has been the worst, too many question I don't know, wouldn't tell or could care less about. People should worry about their own life and help people not talk about them. 

Rest day, hooray! Focused on being controlled and staying in form on this blustery Leap Day. Run felt really good and ankle is holding up :) 6.61/48:18

On a side note, my wife made corn cowder for dinner last night. The boys and I ate it up like you should whenever your wife tries something new and its not very good, you think you would be rewarded for doing this but nope, we were met this morning with upset stomachs. I think the skunks are going to leave the neighborhood.