"A Hefty Hunk Of Steamin Junk"

I felt alot better this morning than I did on Saturday, I am still feeling sluggish and not as strong as I have in the past few weeks. My foot felt good today so I did a little tempo run, 2 miles at marathon goal pace; I did 2 warm up miles and then settled into my tempo run. First mile split was 7:08 heart rate was 161 which is alittle fast but I went with it, and I felt in control for the most part. Second mile was done alot slower for the simple reason that I wanted it to be more close to the pace that I need to qualify for Boston, which is a 7:40 mile but I did it in 7:39 HR was 155 and I felt like I could of held that pace for awhile which is positive. The rest of the run was done at a slower pace to cool down and Idid not want push my foot to hard, it was alittle sore at the end of my run which was a concern but it is 1:30 in the afternoon and it is feeling better. I will now start to do a little mini taper for the Riverwoods 10 Mile race on Saturday, I plan on doing my standard recovery run tomorrow of 8 miles and then slowly decrease my mileage to Saturday,  Wednesday 6 miles, Thursday 5 miles and then 3 miles on Friday. I hope my foot will hold up for the whole race. Total time today was 1:23:38.

Asic Kayano (146)

I was going to do 8 miles today but I ran out of time, I thought my boy Ethan had baseball practice at 7:00 am but no one showed. So I went with the 6 mile easy recovery run and I felt pretty good, my foot pain was still there but not to bad. I am going to try and take it easy for the most part this week as I am running in the Riverwoods 10 miler on Saturday.  Average pace today was 9:03 with an average heart rate of 137, total time was 54:20. Not much else to say except I will see ya tomorrow.

Asic 2120(164)

Another easy day this morning, with race day looming on Saturday I am just trying to keep things nice and easy. I felt really good for the most part of my run this beautiful morning the foot seems to be coming around, its still not 100% though. I havn't been able to Play much golf the last week or so becausae I am so busy, I won't be able to play today because of buisness in the afternoon and friday my boy has a ball game at 4:30, my game will diffentantly suffer. With the Art City Am coming up I need to get going and get some serious practice in, I always like to do well in that tournament. I played last Saturday in a champ of the month and shot 73, I was 1 under for most of the round but then I ran into alittle trouble, oh well back to running. My average heart rate today was 137 with an average pace of 8:46 and a total time of 52:47, my average pace was alittle faster than I wanted it but it didn't feel like I was working real hard so that is a good sign. Tomorrow will be  another easy run and Friday I will do a 3 to 4 mile at a joggers pace just to stay loose.

Asic Kayano(152)

I wasn't able to run yesterday because of work responsibilties, and today I just wanted to do 3 miles to keep my legs loose for tomorrows race (Riverwoods 10 Miler) I kepted at a nice easy pace and I feel like I am ready for tomorrow. I just hope my foot will hold and I don't injure it anymore than it is, I quess we will see tomorrow.

See Ya Then!!!

Asic 2120(167)

I ran Riverwoods 10 Miler this morning I was able to meet Sasha and James from the blog, that was really cool. After talking and meeting  James we decided to run together we had the same goals as far as pace time so we hooked up. I lost track of him at the start so I booked it ahead to try and find him but he was actually  behind me and so that first mile was ran alittle too fast but we where able to pace each other after we found each other. He was trying to keep the pace at 7:00 and I thought that would be alittle bit of a stretch for me but I was game. I was able to keep with him for about 4.5 miles  but I was having a hard time keeping up so I told him to go ahead. I was surprised that when I found a pace that was comfortable I was able to hold that pace for the rest of the race, I will give you my splits they went as follows, 7:08(155), 7:01(160), 6:47(161), 7:12(167), 7:29(165), 7:14(167), 7:23(168), 7:33(169), 7:40(170), 7:05(175). It was nice that I had that extra kick towards the end that was real incouraging, I also took first in my age group which is a first i am not one to brag but pretty good for a guy who in high school couldn't brake the nine minute mile I was very pleased with my effort. My average pace was 7:16 my Heart Rate was 165 average, from the heart rate information it seems I was working alittle harder with the readings I was getting. The course is mostly down hill or flat so my heart seemed to be working harder than it should have been, but I feel like I am on the right track and my foot seemed alright although it is a little sore as I am writting this blog, it being 11:10pm. I feel like the 7:40 pace is a pace I could hold for while which is promising, now if I can hold it for 26.2 that remains to be seen.

I would like to thank Sasha for all he does, we are very lucky to have him on our team and all the expert advise we get on a daily basis, thanks again.

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