my makeup may be flaking

No run today, I had a pounding headache. Ugh...

I went to see a Dr today, she said I have a sinus infection so I'll be on antibiotics for the next ten days and cutting my training down a little.

I went home and did two loops of sugarhouse, my leg kind of cramped up pretty badly about 9 miles into the run.

I did 4 miles in the morning in my waffle flats on the balls of my feet on the woodchip trail. It felt surprisingly easy and my calves weren't sore at all. (This is my version of five fingers training). I think I naturally run alot on the balls of my feet so a barefoot transisition should not be that tough for me.

I did 4 in the morning and 9 in the evening. I was not happy when it started snowing on me. I was actually rather angry at the weather. I'm trying to get better!!!!

Just trying to get my body together here. Everyday is a struggle right now as it takes me some time to loosen up in the morning.

Well this was a nice surprise. I did 14.8 miles at a hard pace in my flats. I only had to stop and stretch it my hip twice. I did not some tightness on the right side of my upper abs which was kind of weird.

Anyway I did the whole thing in 1:26:37 (5:51 pace). I split 58:22 for 10 miles (5:50 pace). This was faster than during my final preparation for the seattle half marathon a few months ago so I guess I'm doing reasonably well. It's especially good seeing as I feel pretty bad right now, if that makes sense.

I did two loops of sugarhouse. I was planning on three, but my legs did not feel good at all. Pretty pain in my right leg as the run went on.

Did 4 in the morning and 9.5 in the afternoon. I felt much better on both runs than yesterday, especially the second one. Had some localized pain in my thigh and also my groin. I finished out my run comfortably with only one strectching break. 6 weeks to go.

Felt really good on both of my runs today. I did 5.5 in the morning and then 9 in the evening. It looked like it might snow on me in the evening, but it held off.

Just did 8 in the morning and then played racquetball for the first time in two weeks. It wasn't too bad, considering.

I woke up this morning with a swollen face and a rash all over my body. My eyes were so swollen that I could barely see. Great! Wonderful! I have only one day of antibiotics left then its back to feeling terrible I guess. My plan today was to try a 20-miler in flats to see how it felt. I was unconcerned about the pace. I made it four miles but I just couldn't go any further, I felt terrible. I turned around and jogged back very slowly to the math department. I brieflly thought about doing laps of sugarhouse but decided that there was no point. All my muscles cramped up and I felt terrible. I really, really dislike how I feel right now.

I woke up feeling bad again and went to see the doctor. She gave me a hernia exam (negative) and then gave me a referral to a PT (I couldn't get an appointment until the 31st!). I described my other symptoms but she thought I would be ok and said that I should keep running.

I went home and ate some chocolate before going running. I ran to sugarhouse park and felt a little tight. When I got to the park I noticed that there was such a massive imbalance in my muscles that my right foot wanted to point almost totally out (at right angle to my left). I didn't like what this did to my knee. I focused on rotating the foot back straight (which is how it normally is) and all the pain suddenly went away. For the last 4 miles of my run I felt amazing. I didn't feel sick and my running for was smooth and fast like it was a few months ago. Quite a turnaround.

Miles	Time	Cum Pace	Split	Pace	Adjpace
3.8	24:14	6:23	24:14	6:23	6:23
7.00	44:14	6:19	20:00	6:15	6:10
8.15	51:18	6:18	7:04	6:09	5:53
9.5	59:30	6:16	8:12	6:04	5:59
10.1	1:03:08	6:15	3:38	6:03	5:53
13.35	1:23:38	6:16	20:30	6:18	6:07
16.85	1:45:18	6:15	21:40	6:11	6:06
18.6	1:56:10	6:15	10:52	6:13	6:14
20.6	2:08:34	6:14	12:24	6:12	6:15
21.5	2:13:56	6:14	5:22	5:58	5:53

Did a long hard run in the snow along the Jordan River. I felt goo until about the 10-mile mark when my butt began to get tight and I had to back off. The pace was surprisingly comfortable, however.

I felt really tired today and so I ran slooow.

I did 4 in the morning and then 10 in the evening in sugarhouse. My right knee felt very stiff (quadriceps tendon I think). I think this is the result of it have to work hard against tight muscles rotating my leg medially. It's all quite complicated.

I did 5.5 in the morning and then 9 in the evening. My knee was looser today.

I did 8 in the morning and then 4.8 in the evening before playing racquetball. I felt excellent on the second run.

I felt quite tired today as I've run quite a lot since saturday. My knee is about 90% right now and so I can focus on the butt tightness problem. These next couple of weeks are going to be epic.

In all sorts of pain today while running. Left IT band, right quadriceps tendon. My right leg is out of alignment...not sure what to do.

After everythin that has been going on, I wasn't even sure that I would run today. I decided that I would warm up and see how it went. In my first mile of warmup I felt some IT trouble in my left knee but it was not bad. After 4 miles I convinced myself that I was going to be fine.

At the start I didn't want to go with a group that was too fast but I didn't want to be stuck in noman's land either. The first three guys went out really fast and I didn't think I could handle it so I let them go. A fourth guy come up beside me and led me back to the leaders who still were going to fast. I looked back and saw we were destroying the field so I decided to just go with it and see what happened. After 1 mile one guy took off (Mangrum) and another guy dropped off the back so it was down to three in the pack (me,Darda and Winegar: my record against these guys is a combined 0-8 I think). Until about mile 3 we were clipping along together quite aggressively. In the 4th mile they quickly dropped me I could feel myself tensing up as I often do at that stage so I just tried to relax and keep the distance manageable. I came out of my funk at mile 5 and quickly surged and caught a struggling Winegar on a steep downhill.

Things started to get intense here. Darda was surging but I ran really tough to claw my way back to him over the next mile. From there on out I just pulled him along as I tried to catch the leader. I felt like I had him on the ropes the whole time even though he was on my shoulder. The course gets really hilly at the end and started to open a little gap but he didn't give up. He chased me all the way to the line but I had a strong finish to beat him by 6 seconds. Mangrum beat us by 40 seconds (he had that gap from about mile 5 onwards).

The course tool says ridiculous thing about my race, but I take them with a grain of salt.

Mile	Overall	Split	Pace	Predicted	Adj Pace
1	5:17	5:17	5:17	5:24	5:07
2	10:43	5:26	5:21	5:34	5:06
3	16:06	5:23	5:22	5:27	5:10
4	21:30	5:24	5:23	5:36	5:03
5	26:59	5:29	5:24	5:14	5:29
6	32:30	5:31	5:25	5:33	5:12
7	37:55	5:25	5:25	5:28	5:11
8	43:19	5:24	5:25	5:21	5:17
9	48:43	5:24	5:25	5:22	5:16
10	54:20	5:37	5:26	5:28	5:23
11	59:35	5:15	5:25	5:08	5:20
12	1:05:15	5:40	5:26	5:36	5:18
13.1	1:11:24	6:09	5:26	6:05	5:17

Nothing today, something not right with my foot.

Tendon on the top of my foot didn't feel right while running.

Better than yesterday but still alot of pain.

I had to stop several times during my run today to loosen up my foot

Foot felt quite a bit better but I still had to stop

Foot felt fine until mile 5, then I had to stretch it out.

My foot really started to hurt at the end of my run today.

I did 45 minutes on the stationary bike (16 miles).