High-Octane

12 Miles @ 8:00 Pace on the Treadmill today. I decided to sleep in and run after lunch. Heart rate for each mile: 135,139,140,141,143,146,143,146,148,150,152,155. I stepped off the treadmill for 12 seconds to take a drink after mile 6 so you can see where my HR dropped at 7 then began to rise again. Since 8:00 pace would net me the BQ time I'm considering anything at or below that pace MP. As usual, at the end of this run, I didn't think I could keep it up for another 14.2 miles :-( Also, I can't afford my HR to continue to rise at this pace.

1 Corinthians 11:26
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

I decided to run on the treadmill for another day. I have a little tweek in my hip so I thought it would be best to stay on the treadmill and run at a fairly easy pace today. Usually I go to the gym when I run on the treadmill but stayed home for the past three...now it's getting boring!

10 Miles - 9:00 Pace - Avg HR 128

^{Genesis 32:24-26}

²⁴ So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. ²⁵ When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. ²⁶ Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

   But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

There was a war going on in my body this morning. For some reason my hip and/or my lower back has decided to battle against my mind in this quest for more milage. My left knee finally gave up and conceded it couldn't win but the reinforcements came with a vingence today. My hip/lower back (I can't really tell which) started stabbing me in the middle of the night waking me up several time saying, "you're not going to run today". When I finally got up the little nagging pain was with me every step I took. After hobbling the first half mile I was about to throw in the towel and walk home but I continued and finished the first mile. At that point I decided to try and go at least two out before I turned back. After two things had loosened up a little so I committed myself to make it through the entire 10 even if I had to walk some. Finally after about 4 miles I felt like I could actually finish the 10 miles running but didn't expect anything except a finish. I continued to plod along until mile 8.5 where my hip and back gave up an allowed me to begin to really run. I'm actually happy with the final mile time of 7:05 as I felt strong at the finish.

7/19/2011
Mile	Time	HR	HR %
1	9:48:00	117	55%	Ran the Big Loop (My Hip/Back was really hurting until mile 8.5)
2	9:13:00	129	63%
3	8:53:00	129	63%
4	9:07:00	137	69%
5	8:48:00	129	63%
6	8:53:00	130	64%
7	8:40:00	135	68%
8	8:29:00	140	71%
9	7:49:00	145	74%
10	7:05:00	159	84%
Total	86:45:00	135	67%
Pace	8:40:30	75Âş - 54% Humid

Well, I cut my run to 7 today instead of 10 for a couple of reasons. First I went to bed really early and got up at 6:00 so 7 was all I had time to run. Second, I decided because of my hip/back issue that I would cut the milage down. When I started running my hip/back were very stiff and somewhat painful but as I ran it got much better to the point it wasn't hurting at all. The first half mile was very slow but as I realized I wasn't in any pain I decided to push it more and more throughout the run. Come to find out, when I finished, I had actually run the fastest pace ever for my standard 7 mile loop run. I also realized, while looking at my running record, that on my 5 mile race a couple of weeks ago that I had run a faster pace than on my fastest 5K race. That gives me confidence that I can actually break a 20:00 5K...Ha ha..that's if my body holds out. I'm still pushing to run 70 miles this week.

7/19/2011
Mile	Time	Best Pace	Heart Rate	HR %
1	7:55:00		133	66%	Ran Small Loop
2	7:25:00		154	80%
3	7:07:00		155	81%
4	7:35:00		160	85%
5	7:17:00		165	88%
6	7:21:00		167	89%
7	7:32:00		171	92%
Total	52:12:00		158	83%
Pace	7:27:26		75Âş - 100% Humidity

1 Chronicles 4:10
Jabez called on Israel’s God: “If only you would greatly bless me and increase my territory. May your power go with me to keep me from trouble, so as not to cause me pain.” And God granted his request.

Ahhhhh..... 0 Miles or even feet today! I was tired and my hip/back was somewhat sore when I woke up at 5:00 to go run so I just shut off the alarm and went back to sleep. Now, later in the day, my hip/back feels fine ;-) Guess it will have to be 20 tomorrow!

Psalm 107:1 ] 

“Give thanks to the LORD because he is good, because his faithful love lasts forever!”

AMP Miles today. It seemed very hot and steamy today and I never really felt comfortable. Ran up on a huge bull that apparently had gotten out of someone's pasture. It was sitting about 3 feet off the road also the cyotetes are getting very brave on lonley road. It seemed they were only about a hundread yards away and howling like crazy. It's a little spooky at 5:30 and pretty much pitch black :-( 7/22/2011
Mile	Time	Heart Rate	HR %
1	8:52:00	126	61%	Big Loop & Out Lonely Road to Old Church
2	8:40:00	139	70%
3	8:18:00	140	71%
4	8:54:00	146	75%
5	8:24:00	144	74%
6	8:43:00	145	74%
7	8:50:00	146	75%
8	8:49:00	147	76%
9	8:40:00	146	75%
10	8:43:00	149	77%
11	8:45:00	153	80%
12	8:23:00	153	80%
13	8:42:00	157	82%
Total	112:43:00	145
Pace	8:40:14	79 Deg. - 90% Humidity

Daniel 3:26
Nebuchadnezzar went near the opening of the furnace of flaming fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire.

I couldn't run today. The twinge in my hip has gotten worse and now caused my back to spaz out. For the past couple of days the twinge would work it's way out after a while running but now, with the back, it's too much to bear. To top it off I had work, I had to do at my place (fencing and brush clearing) which intailed a lot of pulling, dragging, twisting and turning. I was really sore after all that! No fun and all pain for me right now :-(