D-Man

Ran an easy 13 miles w/ Jacki this morning from Hawthorn Park, through Rose-Hulman, Woodridge, Deming Park, Terra Vista and back.  Total time 1:38:22.  Legs really shot and stomach really bothering me.  Temp very cool 47-56.

Ran a pretty good 7 miles w/ Jacki from ISU up North by Elks and back in 50:32.  Legs a little tired.  Temp warm 67 and sunny.  Did 30 minutes on the Octane during lunch, 5.38 miles.

Ran a really good 6.5 miles tonight from home down around Collett Park and back in 40:10!  Had 20:41 half way.  Started out around 6:50 pace, dropped down below 6:30 through 4.5, then dropped down to 6:05ish with the last mile in 5:47!.  Temp cool 60, but wore long sleeve shirt.  Had to squeeze run in between dialing in to work.  Today did a pretty solid 30 minutes on the Octane, 5.53 miles with the last 10 minutes pretty hard.

Ran a pretty good easy run w/ Jacki from ISU up to Elks and back.  8 miles in 57:17.  Legs are really sore.  Temp 66 and breezy, occasional rain.  Did 30 minutes easy on the Octane today during lunch, 4.52 miles.  Really tired and wired today as I was up until 1:00 with work.

Ran a pretty good 6.75 miles w/ Jacki tonight from Meadows school around ISU Stadium and housing area across street and Ohio Street.  Total time 49:16.  Legs are still sore. Temp warm 70+ and sunny.  Did 30 minutes on the Octane today during lunch, 5 miles even.

Ran a pretty easy 7.5 miles with Jacki in 55:51.  Went up from ISU up North to the old Elks and back in on/off downpour and hail.  Started out 81 degrees, and went down to 76 toward the end.  Very humid.  No Octane today.  Took a nap during lunch.  Got called again in the middle of the night for work.  Plan is to do the Run with the Foxes trail half marathon tomorrow.

Today ran the "Run With The Foxes" Trail Half Marathon at Morgon-Monroe State Forest.  Pretty good race.  Took the wrong turn, twice, ended up with 14.98 on the Garmin.  It may have been more than that as the Google Earth tracking on my computer shows some gaps throughout the race.  The race started out pretty slow as once we got into the woods, we were single file.  This was the only thing that kept me close to the leader.  Once we broke free from the others, I was in second and he just started to pull away and I knew there was no way I was going to be able to go with him.  We got a "lot" of rain this week in Indiana, so the course was a real muddy mess, and the streams were much wider and deeper than previous years.  I actually completely wiped out 4 times, the first time, jumping through one of the streams that was a foot deep.  I totally misjudged the bank and wiped out and landed on my right arm.  At first I thought I broke it, but it may be just a bone bruise.  It's swollen, purple and achy.  It was at three miles during an open field stretch that I last saw the leader.  At 7 miles, someone was catching me, I could hear him "landing" and "splashing" behind me.  We got to one point where we had an open stretch so I decided to really hammer it down.  I put a good 30 seconds on him in a mile before I realized that I was at some guys camp in the woods at a dead end.  I stopped and the other guy told me he hadn't seen any pink ribbons for a long time.  So we both turned around and started jogging backup up the hill I had just hauled butt down.  Got back on course, got lost again about 10 miles in and had to double back and regaining a lot of the spots we had lost.  In the meantime, I had wiped out a couple more times while pulling away from number 3.  I don't know how many spots I lost on the first "lost" trek, but at that point, I made the race between me and number 3.  Ended up with 1:54:18.  My whole body is sore.  On one of the wipeouts, I couldn't even do a single "pushup" to get back on my feet, I had to crawl my way back up.  I've got scratches and bruises everywhere from grabbing trees, etc.  Very tough race, but really glad I ran it.