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Location:

San Antonio,TX,

Member Since:

Dec 13, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

5K PR - 18:01 - Nov '14

10K PR - 38:37 (workout) - Oct '14

Half-marathon - 1:22:43 - Jan '14

Marathon - 2:58:43 in Boston! - Apr '13

50 mile - 7:49:30 (2nd) - Nov '15

Short-Term Running Goals:

- Balance

- Run more trails, volunteer, more social running, run with a team

- Race a lot more.  learn.

Race results / possible schedule:

Apr 2 - Hells Hills 25k trail - 4th

Apr 9 - Toughest 'n Texas 20-mile Trail - 2nd

May 7 - Paleface - Trail Marathon - 3rd

May 29 - American Hero road 25k - 2nd

Jun 25 - Pedernales Falls 30k nighttime Trail - 5th (sick)

Jul 16 - Muleshoe Bend 30k nighttime Trail - 3rd

Jul 23-24 - Fossil Valley 9-hour nighttime Trail - 2nd

Aug 6 - Colorado Bend 30k nighttime Trail - 4th

Aug 27 - Reveille Peak 30k nighttime Trail (entered)

Sep 10 - Franklin Mountains 50k (entered - not all-out effort...I hope)

Sep 17 - Lighthouse Hill 20-mile trail (entered)

Sep 24 - J&J 50 mile trail

Long-Term Running Goals:

Compete in a few more ultras without going off course (again)

Sub-18 in a 5k

One.  Good.  Marathon.

Personal:

I started running at age 30, in late 2009.  I have 2 daughters (10 and 8 yrs old).

  

 

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Tue, May 04, 2010
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Sigh...went to the pool today at the gym on base.  Did a mile in 4 x 400m with a minute rest between each 400.  The whole thing took 28 minutes; I can remember doing a mile in 18 minutes in high school.  I guess 13 years of not swimming makes you slower.  Finished with 2 x 50m sprint in 38 each to get the heart rate going.  I had to ask a couple of pool/gym employees to make sure the pool was meters and not yards (a lot of short-course pools in the U.S. tend to be yards).  Thankfully it was meters...good ol' military sticks to what they know I guess.

There was zero impact to my bad hip in the pool, so maybe I'll swim every other day and try the...sigh...elliptical machine if I can figure it out tomorrow.  I see the doctor on Thursday morning.

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Comments
From Burt on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 13:52:09 from 206.19.214.144

The pool where I grew up in Kingman is in yards. Don't take advice from flatlander on how to run on the elliptical. He runs backwards on it.

From Kelli on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 13:55:44 from 71.219.75.178

I love all of the sighs in there, bummer! Wait to see what the doctor says, maybe it is not a big deal and just a little more time off and you will be good as new! Dang running injuries.

From Tracy on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 15:23:10 from 209.175.177.37

At least you got in a good workout!

From seeaprilrun on Tue, May 04, 2010 at 23:02:40 from 72.205.231.223

Nice workout! I only swim in order not to drown--no triathlete here! I quit going to the doctor for running injuries because I always get a diagnosis of tendonitis and am told to run as guided by pain and take motrin. Doctor internet diagnoses me now haha! Anyways hopefully a few weeks of some nsaids and cross-training and the hip is good as new! Good luck with the EVILliptical--make sure you have some good tunes to listen to. Hang in there! Running injuries really suck,especially when you feel you are reaching a fitness breakthrough and then BANG. Don't worry you will come back strong as ever--anybody who wants it eventually does!

From SlowJoe on Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:01:02 from 131.59.200.80

Thanks everyone. Yeah, Dr. Internet got me past the knee issues with ease a couple months ago. But he's been telling me that signs point to a femoral neck stress fracture (top of the femur) this time, so I'm getting a second opinion from a real doctor. If it is a SFX, it's minor and is actually feeling a bit better today so maybe it will heal up on its own with a couple weeks rest; I think I caught it early. I would love to hear that it's tendonitis but the one-leg-hop test is...not good. We'll see.

From Tracy on Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:58:49 from 209.175.177.37

My doctor always tells me that every ache and pain means that I should never run again, so I try to avoid him.

And that's hard because he's my dad.

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