On the road to BOSTON!

I decided to run the Painters course today but starting at home. That adds 1/2 mile to the course. When I got to mile 10 my left calf started to bark pretty good. i stopped and stretched and planned the final 4 miles in my head at the pace I wanted. I took off and by 10 1/2 I decided I better get back home and cut it short at 11.00 miles. I ended up with an 8:06 average pace.

I need to work the calf out...must be the cold weather!

Beautiful day just cold.

No run today. I worked indoors on some cross training to loosen things up without putting too much pressure our weight on the calf. My left calf is really sore. I decided that I better take a few days off and get it feeling better. This morning there is no way that I could run....this afternoon it is feeling somewhat better. I have got to get this thing feeling better. I was feeling really good about the half marathon on the 17th. Based on my training I know that I have a PR coming in this run if the calf will heal up.

My calf was still sore but not as bad as yesterday. I stretched and massaged the calf this morning and felt like I should go for a short jog. I got on the Soloflex Vibration platform and really warmed up the legs good and then went for a run. I started out very slow and almost stopped after a block. I pushed through the next block and it wasn't too bad so I continued on. I ended up running 8:45 pace. Not too bad for the pain I was in yesterday.

I am going to take it easy Friday and hope to be able to go run the Painter's course on Saturday morning.

I went out this morning to test the calf. I ran the same course that I did on tuesday. That is when I hurt the calf. I ran pretty close to the same pace (8:13). Didn't really push it but didn't take it too easy either. This course was running from my home to Bloomington drive  then on the Painters Half course at about mile marker 11 and then ran the course except for the Blooomington Drive portion. The wind started kicking up and I didn't want to push the leg too much. My splits were very consistent through the run.

Hopefully I will run the same course tomorrow morning but get the additional 3 miles in.

Ran with Steve, Bill, & Kendrick this morning on the St. George Half marathon course. Started out at 8am. A bit cold but not too bad. Thanks to Steve for hanging back with me for the first 6 miles till he broke away and cut his run short. From there on bill was the pusher.....thanks for keeping the pace a stretch but not killin gme off. Overall a good tune up run for next Saturday. Ended up averaging 7:58. Splits: 8:50/ 7:54/ 7:51/ 7:58/ 8:10/ 8:01/ 7:44/ 7:30/ 7:54/ 7:39/ 7:59/ 8:09/ 8:01