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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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5am, 81F.  I didn't really get any questions answered about my heel yet.  It's now a little worse than it was before my run - pretty much regressed to Friday.  Definitely runnable, but will I make a small injury into a big one by continuing?  Who knows...  We'll see how it feels in 24 hours, I guess, and evaluate it then.  Run was 8:24 pace.

 

Update - 14 hours later it's much better, as good as it's felt in days.  I took ibuprofen and elevated the foot end of my mattress and it is now only very slightly tender to the touch.  Weird.  But also makes me think it's not a stress fracture if quickly feels better like that.  But I'm also pretty sure I don't know what I'm talking about.  Either way I'm probably running in the morning.

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5am, 83F.  8:02 AP.  It was dark for the first few miles and I started a bit too fast since I couldn't see my watch (except when it lit up each mile), then decided I didn't feel like slowing down.  Last mile a 7:37 - HM pace - is my arbitrary "fast mile" threshold so I'll tally 1 fast mile.  The Garmin 405 doesn't like getting sweat on it; if I don't lock the bezel by the 3rd mile, it starts going nuts (I guess sweat gets in there) and I can't manipulate it.

As far as my heel, I guess it was a little better today, if anything.  Pain never exceeded a 3 or so and it's better than yesterday post-run.  I took ibuprofen 7 hours beforehand so I don't think that would have been a factor in making it feel better.

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Tried to do an easy run in the morning and couldn't - too much of a hobble and pain from my right foot.  Knowing it gets worse as the run goes on, I called it off.  I don't think it's a stress fracture since the impact on the ground doesn't hurt; it's right before I push off, when the angle from foot to shin is sharpest.  More research led me toward tendonitis - posterior tibial tendonitis or anterior, depending on which random website I go by.  Either way I'm supposed to rest it to fix it.  Having said that, there is a 10k on Friday that I'd like to try so I might rest until then, warmup a few miles without NSAIDs to test it, them maybe run it.  Sound dumb enough?

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The last 2 mornings I've definitely felt like I could've run and the tendonitis, or whatever it is, is basically gone when I'm walking.  So I'm gonna try a nice easy 2 miles (at the most) after work on Sat. morning.  The ibuprofen and rest have been doing it good.  We'll see how it goes!

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Zilch.  I knew after the first few steps it probably wasn't gonna happen, but I went to a quarter mile to make sure.  I guess having my foot feel good with ibuprofen while walking doesn't necessarily translate into ready-to-run.  I walked straight to the gym after I realized I wouldn't be running and went at the elliptical pretty hard for 30 min; my legs were wobbly and shaking afterward.  Good.  That cheered me up a little.  I'll go longer and slower, so to speak, next time but I had some frustration to take out this morning.

I see the doc on Monday and I doubt I'll be running the rest of the month, at least, based on the lack of progress after 5 days rest.  Depending on when I can come back to running, I might try to switch to the half in January.  I rerally don't want to enter my first marathon untrained.  My wife and I are tentatively planning to do OKC in April anyway.  But it's obviously too early to push the panic button yet; I'll continue to use the torture machines in the gym for now.

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