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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

Upcoming Races

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

Fri, Nov 04, 2011

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
3.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.00

It was a nice day in the low 50's but very windy. I traveled back from Huntsville yesterday and had a very long day so didn't get in a workout. I am currently planning on an every other day run for now until I can build back up anyway. I felt good today and didn't have any problems with the leg. It was a little tight the first mile but felt good after that. Today was the first time I wore a watch since I started back running again and I was surprised at my pace. I thought I was running much slower. It seems like my leg does better when I keep a better pace.

24:35 (8:12 avg)

Saucony Ride 3 Miles: 3.00

Comments

From rockness18 on Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 18:16:02 from 69.183.244.106

Sorry to see you've been still battling injuries. I have had quite a year with similiar ones as well. It seems the calf is usually associated w/achilles soreness. I changed my shoes back in October and my achilles issues have now dissappeared. Gained a blister in the process, yet I'll make that trade any day. Hang in there...looks like you have a good approach to things!

From JimF on Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:35:45 from 98.253.193.207

Thanks Dave. I hope you are getting over your blister problems. What shoes did you switch to relieve the achilles problems? Weird thing for me is that achilles was in one leg and the calf was the other. I really think that I when I started having the achilles problems I changed my stride and that caused the calf problem.

From rockness18 on Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 10:44:16 from 69.183.235.79

Jim,

I've done a lot of experimenting with shoes over the past few months. I narrowed down my achilles issues to the Saucony Rides (real tough on the back of the heal) The Asics are easy on my achilles, yet a little too narrow on my feet- they were the ones that gave me a blister- probably more due to not being broken in before running a marathon. Finally, a pair of Brooks Launch have become the perfect slipper. Light with a great feeling of support. I'm going to stick with them for a while as my main shoe and rotate others along the way.

And yes, I've had a couple calf issues as well which I attribute to a change in form. I work so hard not to aggravate the achilles that other parts of me start breaking down.

Hope you're back to normal soon!

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