Dirty Dozen
It’s my twelfth day running, and it doesn’t suck! It’s crazy, but I’m starting to think that I just might be able to stick with this… This morning’s run was almost a little fun. I didn’t ever feel like I wasn’t going to make it through any of my [...]
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Still Resting?
Grr, that pulled calf still won’t let me really run. Valuable lesson: Overtraining = Losing Ground. I’ll have to be way more careful in the future. I walked my course again, and put in an extra-long stretching session. Hopefully, that will at least keep me from sliding back too [...]
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Day of Rest
So I took my first break from running today. I should have taken it yesterday. I damaged myself. Stupid of me, I know. Everyone says you should take at least one day a week off for recovery, but I let my OCD get the better of me, and since [...]
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That’s a bad title, isn’t it? Well, it got you to read this… Today marks my eighth consecutive day running. It almost wasn’t. With the little aches and pains that have been building up, the nearly bricked calves I had from this past weekend running in hilly terrain, and [...]
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New Locale
Running a new path is a challenge! We went to my wife’s family’s place in the country for their annual Fourth-of-July blowout. Three days of eating nothing but charred meat, drinking nothing but alcohol, and sleeping on a cheesy camper mattress, plus the most amazing fireworks I’ve ever seen outside [...]
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Day Four
Not much difference in performance on my fourth morning run, but MAN, does this hurt! All the little issues I’ve had over the years (sprains, pinched nerves, stress-fractures, an old weird neurological problem), have all begun to haunt me. Nothing major, or that would imply I’m damaging myself, just a [...]
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Day Two, Continued…
OK, so this is gonna be a problem. The pain stopped me from running, and at times was so severe it stopped me from jogging or even walking! It seems my shins wear out long before my body does, so I’m never going to push my physical limits until I [...]
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