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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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to Ukraine's Armed Forces

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

Sun, Mar 09, 2008

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

I have been running just over two years. I have been dealing with a high hamstring problem since mid november. It seems to do alright if I keep the pace slow and avoid running consecutive days. Every time it has started feeling better and I run a few faster miles I end up setting myself backward 2 or three weeks. I ran the painters 1/2 marathon in Jan. and didn't push to hard. I didn't wind up with to much soreness and thought I was recovered but as I added some more miles and a few faster runs it came back. I haven't had any flareups for about three weeks now and I've been riding a bike on days between running. I keep my fingers crossed after every run. It's usually not until that night or the next day that I can tell I overdid it and that makes it easier to go faster or farther than I should have.

Comments

From jtshad on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:45:11

Welcome to the blog! It is good to see another person from Idaho on the blog.

This will be a great place to get the motivation and training tips you need to keep running healthy. There are several folks on the blog who have been dealing with hammy issues and they could provide some advice. I would suggest you keep up what you are doing (rest, easy running) and include some good stretching after light warmup to get it back to running strength.

From Tom on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:55:09

Welcome to the blog!

Like jtshad said there are a few of us that have dealt with the high hamstring issues, most recently Paul (paul.fastrunningblog.com) so you might want to check some of his blog entries for the last couple of months. This can be a really tough thing to overcome, it took me months to get to where it wasn't bothering me while running but even now I have periods where it flares up again. My problem is that I waited too long before dealing with the injury so the sooner you can start to baby it the better.

Also I noticed your running goals are right in line with a whole bunch of us on the blog. Feel free to check out the blogs of all the runners listed on my Favorite Blogs list as most of these guys are shooting for sub-3 marathon in 2008. It's been a great help and motivation for me to see how everyone else trains and to share thoughts and ideas.

From Dave S on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 20:28:08

Thanks for the comments guys. Those are some good sugestions. Looking around the blog I see how it could be very helpful. It's always easier to look back and see what I should or shouldn't have done differently. I would probably be a lot farther a long on this hamstring issue if I would have been on the blog when it happened.

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