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Location:

New Palestine,IN,USA

Member Since:

Oct 23, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

5k - 18:59 (3/09)
4M - 25:06 (9/09)
10k - 41:01 (11/07)

Half - 1:25:58 (11/09)

Marathon - 3:06:33 (12/09)

Short-Term Running Goals:

1:25 for the half marathon
Sub 39:00 for the 10k.
3:07 marathon
18:30 5k

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Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 3:00 for the marathon.

Personal:

Married, two daughters (18 and 15).  Masters runner trying to get competitive in my age group.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Ride 5 (Red) Lifetime Miles: 372.70
ASICS Excel 33 Lifetime Miles: 152.00
Saucony Ride 7 Lifetime Miles: 249.00
ASICS DS Trainer Lifetime Miles: 212.20
Asics Cumulus 16 Lifetime Miles: 241.30
Thu, Feb 24, 2011
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
2.000.000.000.002.00

Philly:  I thought I would try to run on the foot again today and see how it went.  I started off easy and didn't have any pain.  I decided to run until I felt the first sign of pain and then stop.  I made it 2 miles and it started to bother me some so I shut it down then moved to the elliptical for another 25 minutes. It is frustrating but will have to work on other things to stay in shape until I can get this foot fixed.

 

ASIC DS Trainer #2 Miles: 2.00
Comments
From Bob on Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 18:37:40 from 99.37.51.166

Hi Jim. Checking in on you as I haven't blogged for a while. Can't do it from work anymore! Anyway, see that you've injured your foot. Sorry to hear that have you gotten an x-ray yet? Heal up soon.

From JimF on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:32:18 from 68.53.178.242

Bob, Thanks for checking in. I have been slacking on the blogging as well. I believe I have some achilles tendonitis (?). It seems to get better then gets worse. I probably need to take some extended time off. I am trying cross training right now. Running some and cycling the other days. Hope you are doing well and that your running is going great!

From Bob on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 12:02:22 from 163.191.30.14

Sorry to hear that Jim. As you know, I'm a Dr. Van Aaken fan. One thing he recommended to his athletes was taking frequent walking breaks if you are injured. For example, you would run easy for a Qtr mile and then walk 50-100 meters. You would start out this way and repeat it over and over. Whenever something is bothering me I do this and it worked for me. Another achilles help was doing a PT exercise called heel drops off a stair step and believe it or not slowly running barefoot a little more often. Just my 2 cents.

From JimF on Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 20:06:03 from 205.232.37.94

Bob, thanks for the feedback and the tips. I will definitely give them a try. I am pretty frustrated with this injury. It has been giving me problems since Nov so I am really ready to get back to normal training. I hope all is well with you. How do you like IL?

From Bob on Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:13:13 from 163.191.30.14

We like IL. It's not much different from IA! As you know, IL has its problems, but I think it gets a bad rap because they've unfortunately had so many bad political apples and it has been taken advantage of fiscally speaking.

From JimF on Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 21:32:11 from 68.53.178.242

Glad to hear that everything is going well for you.

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