Little Buddha

Basketball this morning. Body still feeling sore and tired from Friday and Saturday for some reason.

Good workout tonight. I was just going to do an easy 2 miles up and 2 miles back down the La Verkin Twist. But then decided to push it a little and do 3 miles up to the Gun Club and 3 miles back down the Twist. Basically had four goals

1. Don't get hit by a car- I need to get a light or reflective vest, especially for this stretch of road.

2. Don't lose my dinner (I ate a chicken fajita, waited 15 minutes then started my workout) I didn't have time to sit around, still on the tight schedule with teaching the Dr. Ed class.

2. Run the first three uphill under 24:00 anything in the 7 minute average range would be good

3. On the way back try as hard as I can to run under 18:00

Anyway, I'm glad to say I accomplished all 4 goals. Especially glad number one worked out.

1-7:26 Not to hilly running up 300 West

2-7:55 Had to step off the road a few times, dodging cars.

3-8:02 Good effort up the steepest part of the run.

23:23

Turn around reset watch

1-5:42 Nice downhill, feeling pretty good

2-5:49 Starting to worry a little about my dinner right now

3-5:45 This mile was pretty flat so I was happy with the time, but still very concerned about losing my dinner.

17:17- 5:45 average

Got home and talked Sunny in doing a few easy cool down miles. We were going to only do 2, but we ran into some ladies from our ward so we extended our run with them and ended up running 3.

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Very busy night. I didn't think I was going to get a run in. I wasn't able to leave the house until 9 pm, but managed to get in 4 easy miles. Sunny and I tied each other today on the number of miles ran. The rest of the week won't be quite as busy.

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Difficult morning.  I was playing basketball this morning and I was going up for a rebound and felt a pop and immediate pain in my left calf muscle.  I'm worried I tore a muscle or did some damage, it was very painful trying to walk to my car and I've been in slow gear all morning now.  I know the comments that will be coming, because I've already got them from my wife.  "You shouldn't be playing basketball."  Anyway, hopefully this is nothing to major.  Bill I know you had some calf issues, what were the symptoms and remedies?

Calf muscle feels quite a bit better today.  I was pretty worried yesterday, but spent most of the day icing and just resting.  I put on quite a bit of wintercrest last night and I can at least walk around a little better today.  However, I still think it will be a while before I resume any running.

Leg feeling a little better today.  It is still going to be awhile before any running.

Still resting the calf muscle. Went over to the running store this afternoon. Sunny bought some shorts and we ordered a baby jogger. I'm thinking more and more about doing the Deseret News Marathon now instead of Ogden. Sounds like Steve, Clyde and Bill are thinking of doing this marathon, so it might be fun to train for this together. My training has been decent recently, and I think after I get over this minor calf strain I will be ready to increase my mileage some in April, May and June and could really focus on a fast marathon in July. I will be out in Wisconsin for one week in June, and a second week I will be in Salt Lake all week, but should have plenty of time to train. The only week that really looks in question would be July 7-12 when I have scout camp, but I guess that would be a like two weeks before the marathon, so I would maybe be doing a mini taper anyway. Anybody have experience running Deseret News as compared to other marathons?

Just went out and tried to run 2 miles easy. I managed to walk/jog the first mile, but pretty much resorted to walking the second mile home. I wanted to test the calf and how much pain I felt and could stand. I was still favoring it quite a bit and it was throwing off my stride so I still need to take it real easy.

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