The Perils of Self Betterment

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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Jan 17, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)

2008 - 1,317

2009 - 2,654

2010 - 2,578

2011 - 2,618

2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)

2013 - 1,177

2014 - 1,716

2015 - 1,060

2016 - 951

2017 - 786

2018 - 1,058

2019 - 1,211

2020 - 1010

2021 - 1064.9

2022 - 1135.9

Short-Term Running Goals:

reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on

run faster

increase mileage in the Spring 

keep running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

run

 

Personal:

born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog

6 ft tall, nation wide

"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka

 

"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of 
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels

 

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Switchbacksblack Lifetime Miles: 176.50
Kinvara11(2) Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Kinvara11blue Lifetime Miles: 327.70
Rincon2 Lifetime Miles: 262.40
Spg 4’s Lifetime Miles: 135.50
Skechers Razor3 Lifetime Miles: 160.90
Rincon2(2) Lifetime Miles: 85.50
Asics Noosa14 Lifetime Miles: 73.00
Sauconyaxon2 Lifetime Miles: 73.80
Mach 4 Lifetime Miles: 34.50
Total Distance
12.50

12.5 / beyond easy pace. Commute home. Overcast, temps in the low 60's, pretty good wind coming out of the North, so the majority of my run was with a nice tailwind. 

"They're" extending the parkway trail that constitutes 4.5 miles of my commute. Since the trail runs at an angle through the neighborhoods I pass through, it will cut my minimum required distance each way from 9.1 miles to less than 8 miles. So a two way commute will only require 16 miles for the day, which is easily extended if I choose.

WT 58 miles.

Hyperspeed 4 (2) Miles: 12.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From Kelli on Tue, May 03, 2011 at 22:03:39 from 71.219.96.115

I love those nice paved trails, but do not admit to excitedly that they are shortening it!!!

Great week so far, you are kicking tail. You ready for the big day?

From JD on Tue, May 03, 2011 at 23:07:02 from 97.117.121.198

Thanks Kelli. You know, I'm really not feeling ready. I've got this nagging achilles issue that just won't go away. So I haven't been putting in as many miles as I wanted too over the last couple of weeks. I might cut WAY back next week and see if that helps. I can run, but everything has had to be real easy. If my right ankle still feels like this after next week, I'll consider dropping the Ogden marathon. We'll see. I want to spend the summer running a lot of miles, so I don't want to sacrifice that just so I can run another (slow) marathon.

From Kelli on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 13:37:57 from 71.219.96.115

I have the SAME problem, but it is my left achilles. I keep thinking it is doing better, then I run, and it hurts after. I am frustrated because I have not really seen any improvement in it since the 50 miler (which is where it happened, i guess-that darn race!!!) Have you gotten any advice on what to do for it (aside from NOT running, which we never like to hear)???

Sorry that you have PAIN, it really stinks. I am with you, though. I do not want to mess up my running. SO FRUSTRATING.

From JD on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 14:21:47 from 70.96.78.149

No advice. What's funny is that it hurts more when I'm not running, like in the morning before I get out of bed is when it hurts the most. I lie there wondering how I'm ever going to run again. But after getting up the pain goes away almost immediately. I'm just stretching, gently, doing a little ibuprofen, and running nothing but easy miles. We'll see. I hope you heal up soon.

From Stacie on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 15:33:30 from 67.166.127.0

:(

From sketcher on Thu, May 05, 2011 at 19:10:49 from 74.98.195.78

Hi JD, Kelli: I was plagued by achilles issues last year, and now that it seems to be better, (read: improved), a trainer gave me a tip for the occasional ache that kept recurring: roll a hard-ish ball such as a tennis ball under your foot and kind of massage the sole. I find it really helps.

Happy trails.

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