Where's the Donuts?

Sunday afternoon run after church and before the Super Bowl, actually a really nice winter afternoon to do something other than eat nacho dip. Mild, some clouds, maybe 55 out. Shorts in February! 

Ran from home out to Tracyton boat launch, with an addition through Lions Park going out/back, plus at Tracyton I went past the boat ramp to the school and then looped back through the neighborhood there. On the return I extended it through Shore Drive to add a few extra minutes as well. Probably around 12 miles total, maybe a touch more since I had a little better pace coming home. But I tried to keep it easy and even. Legs and fitness felt fine, just a little tightness in my right calf at about 1:05 or so. My watch band did break though, so not a perfect day. But I feel good about this run given everything that happened in January and I have some confidence I can cover 26.2 -- it's too bad I have 3 weeks left instead of 6. 

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Another good mid-week treadmill run, I'm finally in a rhythm with these hour-long runs and feeling healthy. Wish I had an extra 2-3 weeks. (But if I was granted that wish, I'd just say the same thing again in 2-3 weeks.) In any case, an easy mile to start, then a little moderate progression run of 3@8, 2@7:41, and 1@7:35, then an easy .5 to finish. 

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Evening run at the Y. I cut it a little short because my left achilles was tightening up. Spent the extra time stretching and doing some little exercises for it, then iced. 8 minute pace, Matt Becker was there and saddled up on the treadmill next to me, so it was fun to chat with him through the run. 49:00 

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Set back today. I started off up Jacobson and Trenton for a planned 16-miler, but about 12 minutes in my left achilles tightened up. I stopped and stretched, walked and tried to start again slowly, but this was enough to make me worried. I slowly jogged back, not feeling any better, and ended up walking a few blocks. No reason at that point to do anything worse to it. Hope to ice, stretch, etc. 

So that's frustrating, in light of the progress and my hope for one longer run before the race. It did feel a little tight Thursday, so I'm not completely surprised by the decline. Back to the ice/stretch routine, we'll see what tomorrow brings. In any case I'm going into this marathon way undertrained, so I may as well take a shot at going in healthy.