Fit To Be Tied!
Yesterday evening, I spent 10 glorious hours pain free. I just needed to get tied up! By the podiatrist, of course. I*finally* got a slot to see one about the tearing heel-pain that’s taken me off the road and made me limp for the last six weeks. As I [...]
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No Progress
Well, after 3 weeks off from running, with daily massage and stretching, and icing after use, I figured it was time to try again. This was a mistake. Don’t get me wrong, the run went great. I warmed up extra-carefully, and massaged the heck out of my heel before [...]
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It’s the drugs, stupid!
So here’s a tip. Don’t get used to running at a new “maxed-out” pace, then forget to use your asthma inhaler one morning and try to maintain that pace! That was a mistake. It would seem that the asthma drugs did have a large role in my performance [...]
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I managed a last run of 2011, the morning of New Year’s Eve! Coincidentally, it also marked exactly six months that I’ve been running. It was a surprisingly important milestone to me, important enough to undertake even though we were in Maryland visiting friends. I should however, have considered [...]
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Another Personal Best!
I think I may be turning into a bit of a masochist. It seems that the more I torture myself while I run, the more satisfying I find my results. Yesterday’s run was devoid of breathing problems, thanks to pseudoephedrine, but all the old aches and pains came back [...]
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Unbelievable Consistency
Since acquiring my new running watch, I’ve been carefully monitoring my heart rate and running times for signs of improvement (or decline!). The results are surprising. I’ve found that I have a constant “best” time for my course of 22:57. I’ve hit that number exactly, five out of my [...]
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Injured Again. Grrrr….
Yep, so that ridiculous knee injury took me off the road for five days. It still hurts constantly. However, I managed my first run of this week without it doing much more than aching. It definitely slowed me down, but it did not stop me! I’m not sure where [...]
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No Pain, No… Ahh Hell, It Just Hurts!
My first continuous run last week nearly undid me, so I’ve been playing with my pace to find a good balance between time and suffering. I think today, I found the sweet spot. I was only worried I was going to die, not convinced of it, and I managed two [...]
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Another Round of Newbie Runner Observations
So, over the past few weeks, I’ve been collecting another round of observations from my perspective as a new convert to the running cult. I wonder how many will still seem true in a year! These are the things that are currently surprising, annoying, and/or amusing me (sometimes all [...]
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Walk-Be-Gone
So I finally began losing some of my walking on my morning run today. With my pacing under control, I’ve been able to increase the length of my running segments every run for two weeks. today, I only increased the running a little, but decreased my walking segment lengths by [...]
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