| Location: Erie,CO, Member Since: Jan 01, 2008 Gender: Male Goal Type: Unknown Running Accomplishments: Pikes Ascent: 2:37.x
Pikes Marathon 4:32:x
Do PRs count if they are older than 10 years? Short-Term Running Goals: Preparing for Pikes 08 Long-Term Running Goals: Run lots of mountains and passes, the Grand Canyon, and the Burro Race World Championships Personal: I have nine toes for the same reason Paul McMullen has eight |
|
Click to donate
to Ukraine's Armed Forces
|
| Miles: | This week: | 0.00 |
Month: | 0.00 |
Year: | 0.00 |
|
| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 11.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 11.00 |
|
 Monday ... another start of the week. Zero miles in the log to start. Here we go again ... part of me loves this ... knowing that the pure monotny of training for some is what sends them away. Those that train through these short dark, windy, cold days will overcome. BWAH-HA-HA.
I came home early from the office to work a bit from home, help out with the family as my bride was not feeling well. Nonetheless, I snuck down to the mill before dinner and banged out seven. I started slow (8:20) and just kept picking it up ... not because I felt good, but mostly because I wanted to get the run done and get back upstairs. And because I was getting bored. 7 miles in 48 minutes, with the last six under 40 ... and it was easy.
I can feel my fitness progressing, simply because I ran a race yesterday and here I am feeling okay enough to run sub sevens on a machine I used to hate the next day. Okay, some of this is because it is mill running (which I am becoming more and more convinced is easier). But at the same time, and this might seem contradictory, while that fitness is improving, I can feel a part of me falling apart. I can almost feel the bone growing on my gimp foot heel; with each mile I build up a bit more calcification on that Haglund's deformity. My abdominal issue has not really healed; depsite my wanting it to just go away by ignoring it ... it has not. I get up from my desk in the middle of the day and I look like I am about to fall over. How the hell does that happen where you go from running 5:30s in a race to not being able to walk comfortably at the office?
Is this age? You actually can increase fitness or maintain it but the body parts start to give? I talked to Buzz at the BTR talk the other day and I asked him how he was doing. He spoke about a variety of injuries he has had to deal with (hammie, should surgeries, etc). He said, "I have this great engine, but the wheels just keep falling off the car!" Okay, okay, I am not falling apart. In fact, the Achilles has been a pain (literally) for years (put your foot in a lawn mower once and you never are forgiven - sheesh ... ). Maybe it is pyschosamatic, brought on simply because I am this age and I supposed to think about this stuff more, but it seems like I feel more little niggling ache and pains then I used to.
And yes, they are aches and pains. The difference between an injury and an ache and a pain was described to me by Jason Hickman at the Camera years ago ... as I described a problem he asked, "can you run on it?" "well, yeah, after I warm up some." "then it ain't an injury, it is just an ache and a pain. When you can't run on it, then it is an an injury."
After I got the kids down I hit the mill again (the winds were really ridiculous today, they actually woke me up last night shaking the house) for five in 33. Total on the day, 13 in 81. I doubt I could do a half that quick outdoors right now, but ... I could not have done five on the mill in 33 three months ago after doing 8 and felt comfortable. The body is an amazing vessel.
|
| Night Sleep Time: 0.00 | Nap Time: 0.00 | Total Sleep Time: 0.00 |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Debt Reduction Calculator |
|
New Kids on the Blog
(need a welcome):
Lone Faithfuls
(need a comment):
|