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May Running Totals (miles) 5/1 – injury rehab 5/2 – injury rehab 5/3 – injury rehab 5/4 – injury rehab 5/5 – injury rehab 5/6 – injury rehab 5/7 – injury rehab 5/8 – injury rehab 5/9 – injury rehab 5/10 – injury rehab 5/11 – injury rehab 5/12 – injury rehab 5/13 – injury rehab 5/14 – injury rehab 5/15 – injury rehab 5/16 –…

Extra rest day today, may take a planned rest day tomorrow. Listening to my body in the last days of May. With that in mind, goals for June: Nominal June mileage goal: 100 Real goal: Get back to running regularly without re-injuring myself If things go well, I should blow past 100 miles in June. But I want a conservative…

This morning I developed an ache in my right hip abductor in the middle of my routine set of cone touches. I backed off the other morning exercises that hit that area, and it felt better by afternoon. So I went to club practice intending to just run about 5 easy miles. Well. The hip abductor announced its presence as soon…

May Running Totals (miles) 5/1 – injury rehab 5/2 – injury rehab 5/3 – injury rehab 5/4 – injury rehab 5/5 – injury rehab 5/6 – injury rehab 5/7 – injury rehab 5/8 – injury rehab 5/9 – injury rehab 5/10 – injury rehab 5/11 – injury rehab 5/12 – injury rehab 5/13 – injury rehab 5/14 – injury rehab 5/15 – injury rehab 5/16 –…

@kgirlhart I wear Darn Tough socks. The summer version are quarter length, and billed as "running" socks. They're thinner than the micro-crew length billed as "Hike/Trek" that I wear in the winter, but they aren't compression. Wick the sweat away, prevent blisters, they're good. If you need compression, they don't do that.

May Running Totals (miles) 5/1 – injury rehab 5/2 – injury rehab 5/3 – injury rehab 5/4 – injury rehab 5/5 – injury rehab 5/6 – injury rehab 5/7 – injury rehab 5/8 – injury rehab 5/9 – injury rehab 5/10 – injury rehab 5/11 – injury rehab 5/12 – injury rehab 5/13 – injury rehab 5/14 – injury rehab 5/15 – injury rehab 5/16 –…

It's a learning process. Before I was seriously running, I thought those asymmetric water bottles looked dorky, I never wanted to wear a sleeveless shirt, and I really preferred crew length socks. Sunday I went out running quarter length socks and a singlet, with a couple of those dorky water bottles in a belt. Practical…

May Running Totals (miles) 5/1 – injury rehab 5/2 – injury rehab 5/3 – injury rehab 5/4 – injury rehab 5/5 – injury rehab 5/6 – injury rehab 5/7 – injury rehab 5/8 – injury rehab 5/9 – injury rehab 5/10 – injury rehab 5/11 – injury rehab 5/12 – injury rehab 5/13 – injury rehab 5/14 – injury rehab 5/15 – injury rehab 5/16 –…

Two programmers to a computer . . . This is one of the things that would make me want to ask upper management, "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?" It's also an example of karma in action. The very people who are smart, motivated, organized, and productive will be the ones who are in a position to say, "good-bye."…

May Running Totals (miles) 5/1 – injury rehab 5/2 – injury rehab 5/3 – injury rehab 5/4 – injury rehab 5/5 – injury rehab 5/6 – injury rehab 5/7 – injury rehab 5/8 – injury rehab 5/9 – injury rehab 5/10 – injury rehab 5/11 – injury rehab 5/12 – injury rehab 5/13 – injury rehab 5/14 – injury rehab 5/15 – injury rehab 5/16 –…

Intervals of run 2 minutes, walk 2 minutes yesterday. Today I did run 1 mile, walk 1 minute. Quads are feeling training-sore. I think in about a week, I'll feel more like I'm training than like I'm rehabbing.

May Running Totals (miles) 5/1 – injury rehab 5/2 – injury rehab 5/3 – injury rehab 5/4 – injury rehab 5/5 – injury rehab 5/6 – injury rehab 5/7 – injury rehab 5/8 – injury rehab 5/9 – injury rehab 5/10 – injury rehab 5/11 – injury rehab 5/12 – injury rehab 5/13 – injury rehab 5/14 – injury rehab 5/15 – injury rehab 5/16 –…

No challenge. I have breakfast every day, and at least one apple every day. The challenge is to keep the total calories down to where the weight will trend sideways until I start running again. I keep thinking I can relax the eating because I'm close to running again . . . and then I'm not ready to run yet.

Added back the one-leg calf raises this week. A set of 10 quick ones on Monday, 3 sets of 10 quick on Tuesday, 3 sets of 10 at normal tempo yesterday, and 3 sets of 10 at normal tempo today felt so good that I added a 5 lb. weight for the 3rd set. I think I'm really close to being able to do walk/run intervals. Maybe…

Go slowly. Too fast, you end up injured and take even longer than going slowly. Of course, most of us have to learn that the hard way.

Podiatrist visit today. The bone is perfectly aligned, and the stress fracture is now protected by the exocallus. He was happy with how I've been incrementally adding various exercises, and prognosis is for a full recovery if I keep doing that. So I asked him how long before I was running. Estimate, about a month. Sigh.…

The last time I ran was 6 weeks ago today. This morning my foot was able to support the plank position for push-ups without the boot. Still not ready to run, but I've added back the monster walk, the Swiss ball bridges, and the Bosu ball balance exercises. Weighted calf raises are still too risky.

Yeah, I looked . . . his winning time was slower than my PW 5K, which I ran at age 60 in about three inches of snow? Aren't there any local runners better than that?

Text message says @PastorVincent finished the 5K in 39:07. Same time is given for his wife, so presumably he chose to run with her in order to save energy for the marathon tomorrow.

Depends on your general fitness level, how hard you trained, and how hard you plan on running the half. Sometimes, the best thing is a rest day. Sometimes, the best thing is an easy preview of the last 2 miles of the race course. Sometimes, the best thing is 2 miles at goal race pace. You just need to figure out what is…

@PastorVincent The magnets are called bib dots, or something like that. I don't know anyone who uses them, a couple runners said they can fall off. I use a bib belt, which works well for races short enough that I don't also need a hydration belt. Mine is made by Nathan, but I've also seen a guy who has a combination SPI…

It helps if you can find a pace group that Meb is pacing. Then you'll want to hang with him for most of the race to listen to what he has to say. Anyway, that worked for me at the Shamrock Half. Didn't PR, didn't win the age group, finished in great shape. I could have run fast enough to win the age group, but I still…

It's May 1, and I'm still injured. Hit my zero miles goal for April. I'll be slightly more ambitious for May. May goal: Some amount of running greater than zero miles, i.e. at least one run long enough to be worth starting the Garmin. Not going to happen this week, and maybe not next week either. Coming back all the way is…

Just to make it official: I brought April in right at the nominal goal of zero miles. The stress fracture is still not all better, but I see some signs of progress. On to May!

I bought the first pair at Fleet Feet, where full price merchandise is always overpriced. I think it was a new concept then, and commanded a premium price. They really ought to be a lot cheaper now.

I picked up Oofos clogs at the local Fleet Feet several years ago, and have a second pair that I got at a FF closeout sale for when this pair wears out. What sold me the first time is for my large feet they only came in clogs; I don't do well with the flip-flop style that has a post between my big toe and the next toe.…

After Eliud set the world record at Berlin in 2:01:something (and having previously run 2:00:25 on a track time trial that wasn't eligible for the record), he was quoted as saying something like, "I've run 2:03, 2:00, and 2:01. Next I must run a 2:02." So I see at London he ran 2:02:39. Kind of like Babe Ruth's called shot…

In addition to the micro-cycle of build 3 weeks, cut back one, you can think in terms of a macro-cycle: Train to a peak before a race, back off, repeat the long term cycle . . . except the lows get higher between training cycles, and the highs get higher at the peak of the cycle. There will be some practical maximum beyond…

Mostly out of the boot now. Still need it to support/protect the foot in the morning when I do push-ups. But when I'm done with the push-ups, I can take it off and wear Oofos around the house till I shower and put real shoes on. And the Oofos are stable enough that I can do kettlebell snatches again. Still no calf raises,…

Went all day yesterday without the boot, and tried overnight. Got up about 4 AM to put the boot on, left it on for this morning's pull-ups, push-ups, and kettlebell swings. Baby steps, so to speak: I've been walking around my irregular-shaped block, about 0.83 mile. When healthy, it takes me about 1600 steps and about 12…