High-Octane

Seems I have a lot to think about right now with my running. As you can see I ran 12.25 today. I actually had scheduled only 10 but at about 9 decided to just go ahead and run a couple more miles...just for the heck of it.. I may have figured out part of my problem the last few days after reading Slow Joe's comments on his race and also reading a little in the new marathon book I recieved in the mail yesterday (Thanks Der Hammer for the recommendation, I read for about 30 minutes and have already learned several things!). I think I may be getting dehydrated on my runs with the weather heating up to about 65 degrees during most of my runs. I read, in my new book, how much fluid you lose at different temperatures and I know I'm not drinking nearly that much fluid. I think that's why my muscles have felt "stiff" for the last few days and I think this is why I haven't felt "fluid" when running lately. I think I'm just "DRY" and my muscles are stiff... So...Here's what I did: Last night before I went to bed I drank 16 ounces of Powerade and then woke up in the middle of the night and drank another 16 ounces, then before I ran this morning I drank another 16 ounces of water and also carried 16 ounces of Powerade on my water belt and drank it all before I had finished 8 miles of my run. I actually feel much better now than I have for a few days. My run may not indicate, in the short term, an improvement but I was really just trying to keep my heart rate below 139 on this run. I did go back and compare an identical run from December of last year and my heart rate was 12 BPM slower this time on the overall average (I had written a note that the December run was "hard"). I would say today's run was somwhat easy althought I was a bit fatigued bu the end...I think just because of the overall time pouding the ground.

3/22/2011
Mile	Time	Heart Rate	HR %
1	9:03:00	123	40%	Big Loop +2.25
2	8:57:00	134	51%
3	8:30:00	134	51%
4	8:49:00	146	63%
5	8:17:00	139	56%
6	8:49:00	138	55%
7	9:05:00	137	54%
8	8:58:00	140	57%
9	8:43:00	138	55%
10	8:42:00	140	57%
11	8:46:00	141	58%
12	8:13:00	145	62%
12.25	2:14:00	147	64%
Total	107:06:00	139	56%
Pace	8:44:34	65 Deg.	High Humidity

Ezekiel 37:3-5 

³ He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”    I said, “Sovereign LORD, you alone know.”  ⁴ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! ⁵ This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life.