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Location:

Preston,Id,USA

Member Since:

Mar 09, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

2009 TOU Half Marathon 1:25:06

2010 St George Painter's Half Marathon 1:25:24

2011 Jan. St George [Painter's] Half Marathon different course 1:25:28

2011 Apr. Boston Marathon 3:03:24

2011 May Ogden 5K 18:18

2011 July 4th 15K Freedom Run 58:53

2011 July Deseret News 10K 37:12

2011 Oct St George Marathon 2:58:18

Short-Term Running Goals:

Sub 18 min. 5k

1:24 Half

Sub 3 at St George in Oct.

Get injury free and stay that way

Set new PRs at all distances now that I'm 50

Long-Term Running Goals:

17:30 5K

2:50 marathon

Personal:

I was born in 1960

I started running in 2006

I am married with a 16 year old son [that lives with my wife and I] and a 30 year old step son and 25 year old step daughter

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00

Thu, May 05, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Crosstraining miles	Total Miles
8.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	8.00

Nice morning for a run. It started cold again but the sun quickly warmed things and it was calm. Just did another 8 miles at a comfortable pace. Everything is feeling pretty good. It seems like I come away from most marathons with some lingering issue but so far so good.

Comments

From I Just Run on Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:55:56 from 67.79.11.242

I'm wondering what I'll feel like when I get back to running in a few days. My darn knee just won't go away (comes and goes) but that was a previous issue. I'm wondering how the rest of my body will feel when I run. Right now it seems pretty normal.

From I Just Run on Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:58:26 from 67.79.11.242

Oh yeah... I was going to ask your opinion on the 3200 ft downhill at the DNM, is that really hard on your legs?

From Dave S on Fri, May 06, 2011 at 22:27:47 from 4.254.221.146

I've had a couple of marathons where I have felt great the week after and jumped right back into normal training only to wind up with injuries. I've also had a couple marathons that I ran with an [injury like you did] and had it take a few weeks to get back to normal. I would just get out and start with some short easy runs and see how everything feels. I had a little calf and quad soreness in my first run after Boston [that wasn't there when I wasn't running] so I only went 2 miles and took a couple more days off. If your knee is the only problem and since the doc told you that you wouldn't damage anything by running, I would take ibuprofin and keep running if the ibu stops the pain. Even if you feel great I would still keep next week fairly easy.

I have never run the Des News marathon but it does have some pretty major downhill. If you can get in some good downhill training you could run a pretty good time even at that altitude. If you did it without much downhill training it can be very painful on the quads. You probably don't have a lot of hills around to train on?

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