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Location:

Salt Lake City,Ut,US

Member Since:

Jun 16, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Short-Term Running Goals:

Training for the SLC marathon. 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and keep running with my puppy.

Personal:

Runner and Dinosaur Lover

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NIKE Spikes Lifetime Miles: 16.60
Blue Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 775.25
Adidas Spikes Lifetime Miles: 74.23
Orange Mizuno Wave Nexus 5 Lifetime Miles: 430.55
Black Nike Free Run+ 2 Racing Flats Lifetime Miles: 655.22
Barefoot Lifetime Miles: 122.00
Neon Orange Spikes Lifetime Miles: 33.86
Neon Green Nike Zoom Structure+ 15 Lifetime Miles: 497.75
Blue Saucony Trainers Lifetime Miles: 177.90
Red Saucony Kinvara 2 Lifetime Miles: 135.00
Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 558.10
Orange Brooks Lifetime Miles: 231.45
Red Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 275.51
NEON Green Nike Flywire Lifetime Miles: 142.50
Blue Saucony Kinvara 4 Lifetime Miles: 70.26
NEON Green ASICS Gel Lifetime Miles: 18.25
Saucony Kinvara 6 Lifetime Miles: 36.25
Yellow Brooks Lifetime Miles: 16.00
Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles: 232.80
Orange Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles: 223.30
Kinvara 11 Lifetime Miles: 457.90
Total Distance
5.00

Today was my first day back with Plika. So we started with the 2 laps warm up, stretching and drills and my knee was feeling fine so Bill had me go with the sprinters today because he doesn't want me to go straight into the hard workouts and reinjure myself, to ease into it and get my speed back by saturday.... Hopefully. But I was with Jasmine, Gavin, Sam, Dakota and Sophie and we did 2 sets of circuits of 2 legged hop ups, FREAKING HIGH step ups, squats, lunges, push ups, planks, side planks, and fall and goes with grapevine. We did that twice and my knee started to hurt a little on the second set. Before we broke into groups we all went over to the Hill going into the Soccer field to do 8 hills. We were put into groups with our physical fitness and I was with Dakota and Caden, I was a bit worried considering I hadn't run for almost a week but I did pretty good. Especially because I won all of the hills. We started like a race and strided up the hill then kicked it in hard about 20 meters at the top of the hill. After those, Bill wanted me to do 2 300s so I did them in 48 and 49 so pretty consistent and pretty fast considering I hadn't run for a while. Then I did 2 laps cooldown with Dominique and it was a good thing because my knee was starting to hurt. Not terribly bad like last week but enough that I was starting to limp. Then we set up the ice bath and I took a REALLY REALLY REALLY COLD ice bath for 15 minutes and that made my knee feel better. Hopefully I feel good enough Saturday to race the mile competitively!!!

Neon Green Nike Zoom Structure+ 15 Miles: 5.00
Comments
From Susannah on Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 22:19:18 from 98.202.87.3

What has been happening to your knee? Good luck if you are able to race Saturday :)

From Patrick Cunningham on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 21:58:27 from 24.10.219.43

Thank you, and "Plika" is an over use injury. Pretty much its I have been over using my knee with out much recovery so my tendons are inflamed and swollen. Pretty much on the verge of tearing but not quite that severe..... Yet, hopefully it wont get that bad though.

From Susannah on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 07:36:57 from 98.202.87.3

Oh ok. Have you been taking antiinflammatory medicine for it then?

From Patrick Cunningham on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 21:48:21 from 24.10.219.43

No, Bill just wants me to ice it and stay off of it for a while.

From Susannah on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 21:56:38 from 134.71.79.119

Ibuprofen or some inflammatory would probably help a lot... I know Bill had a new year's resolution to do things like ice and stretch to take care of injuries rather than resort to ibuprofen all the time, but your injury sounds like it would benefit from ibuprofen in addition to icing and resting it.

From Patrick Cunningham on Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 22:01:12 from 24.10.219.43

I am to the point that I would do anything to get it healed and get my fitness back to where it originally was...

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