6am run on a Wednesday...??

yes, marathon training has officially taken over my life

testing this email feature out!

PR by 5 minutes!

IU Mini mile splits:
Mile 1- 8:37
Mile 2-8:05
Mile 3-8:54
Mile 4-8:32
Mile 5-8:49
Mile 6-8:34
Mile 7-9:06
Mile 8-8:40
Mile 9-9:14
Mile 10-8:48
Mile 11-8:53
Mile 12-8:53
Mile 13-8:33
Mile 0.1-0:52

12.2 mile loop

My new favorite long run:

Home
Elkton
Cashmo Mill (1 Bent)
Delfram Dr
R Windsor Dr (2)
R Country Club Dr.
R New London (3 Marriot)
Hillside
Old Barksdale/Apple (4)
Winslow
Main (Center 5)
Chapel
Paper Mill
Old Paper Mill (Resevoir 6)
Nonatum
L Vainer
R Elma (7)
Nonatum
Wrangler Rd
Old Paper Mill (Resevoir 8)
Chapel
Main (gym 9)
Orchard
Delaware
Chapel (Lovett 10)
Trail (train station 11)
Home

2 hours maybe?

The distance race is a struggle that results in self-discovery. It is an adventure involving the limits of the self.

Hmmm don't know about that one. Some of the quote a days are a little strange.

I ran at 8:19 pace yesterday!! (against doctor's orders...oh well). Maybe 2 hours is still in sight? I think Baltimore is going to either make or break the mini. Hope I can manage to get miles in during the conference too.

So far behind

6 and a half weeks until the mini and I feel like I'm starting from scratch again. I haven't even glanced at the training log in over 2 weeks now, but I was right on schedule before that. I think I'm pretty much healed from the fall, but now I'm worried about my hip. I think I may have been overly worried about my knee yesterday and altered my stride, which in turn messed up my hip. I'm wondering if there is enough time to get back to where I was 2 weeks ago plus keep upping the mileage to get ready for 2 hours. I'm not so sure.

So slow

I ran 6 miles yesterday! Two weeks ago that would have been nothing worth noting, but that's the most I've run in a while now. Feeling better, but pretty worried about that time goal since the 6 miles were super slow. Very frustrating.

Physical therapy again...

Just went to the UD health center and they referred me to physical therapy. The doctor was concerned that my knee "crunches". I'm not exactly sure what that means but it can't be good. It might be time to get to know how pool running works.

Ouch

It's been 6 days since I fell on the ice and I'm still hurting. Not so good. I've run twice since then and thought it was okay. Yesterday I did 2 miles outside and felt like it was fine but today I ran 5 miles on the treadmill and had to stop and stretch a few times. I felt like I had done a long run- more like mile 15 or 20 of the marathon. But not 5. This is depressing. Think I'm going to push on for a few more days and then consider a doctor visit it it doesn't get better.I looked up stuff on bone bruising today which seems to line up with what happened to me, and the healing time was 4 weeks or longer. I'm ignoring that for now.

Maybe today is the day I'll actually start keeping a log of my running. At the moment, I can't run at all though- probably the reason I am actually on here reading past workout notes. Blizzard 2010 injured me and I'm going to give my leg one more day to heal. Haven't run since Monday and I'm eager to get back outside because training was going so well. Hopefully one more day of rest will be all I need.

5.3 Miles

Ran outside today around the farm.The cows were inside- does that mean I should have been too?Took a while to unfreeze once I was back but a good run.

My VERY late marathon report: mile times for most of the miles.

MILE 1: 11:14
MILE 2: 10:00
MILE 3 and 4: 19:26
MILE 5: 9:58
MILE 6: 9:49
MILE 7: 9:37
MILE 8: 9:47
MILE 9: 9:28
MILE 10: 9:51
MILE 11: 9:35
MILE 12: 9:22
MILE 13 and 14: 19:43
MILE 15: 9:35
MILE 16: 10:11
MILE 17: 10:36
MILE 18: 9:25
MILE 19: 10:09
MILE 20: 10:47
MILE 21: 10:16
MILE 22: 10:33
MILE 23: 10:47
MILE 24: 11:13
MILE 25: 11:06
MILE 26.2: 12:05

COLD!

No running today because it was cold cold cold outside! I woke up this morning with good intentions of running outside, but with the wind gusting up to 50mph with temps in the 20s, I couldn't do it. Then I thought I would go to the gym but that meant going outside too. So I did 30 minutes of yoga from youtube instead. Not much of a workout but I feel stretched :-) Definitely running either in or out tomorrow.

B: granola, blueberries, tea

S: half quesadilla

L: sushi

D: egg in basked, cucumber, mushrooms

4 Miles

First run of the New Year! And first real run since the marathon- more than a month of nearly no running! I felt really good today. I just wanted to get out and get back to running every day. Hopefully I can slowly add mileage back on since it's been a while. The wind was really strong today and it was cold, but a good run anyway. Did stretching before and after too. New Year's resolution: be able touch my toes.

Wind: 30mph
Temp 20 (felt like 12)

B: toast,tea, clementine

L: 2 eggs, cucumber salad, clementine

S: banana and pb

D: salmon and rice and cucumber