CH Runners
Running => Running => Topic started by: hot dog eating face off on July 27, 2014, 09:36:42 AM
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16 miles, really hot at the end.
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5 mile tempo run
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4 miles.
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10 good miles. Ridiculously humid.
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Ok I need to start posting more.
14 miles with the last four at tempo. The next six weeks will be ridonk here.
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11 miles in humid conditions. I was soaked by the end.
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Swapped a long run for a really long bike ride. My ankle thanked me the whole way.
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14 miles. Rain & little thunder. Run felt great though…could have kept going.
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8 miles in the rain.
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30K. Sunny, hot, but not humid on the Toronto waterfront.
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An hour on the Kingdom Trails, lots of singletrack, lots of hills. No idea as to the mileage.
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11 miles
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Warm up of 10 minutes.
6 x 800 with 1:45 rest between repeats.
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Half marathon in just under 1:57. A season best by about 3 minutes.
My last two tries at long runs were pathetic. Two weeks ago I gave up at 7 miles when the hard rains hit, last week I gave up after 8 miles when I ran out of water and was dehydrating. This time the conditions were good and I pushed through.
Now if only the achilles tendon is only sore and not hurt I can think about true long runs of 15 or more. Otherwise it's time to bag the planned fall marathon and stick to halves and such.
Good miles everybody.
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PA, are you doing eccentric stretches? Those are what fixed my achilles tendonitis last fall.
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... eccentric stretches?
I always say "I'm not wealthy enough to be 'eccentric' ... I'm just weird"
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Yes, you are weird.
:D
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PA, are you doing eccentric stretches? Those are what fixed my achilles tendonitis last fall.
I do almost no stretches at all. For speed work (paces in the 7 minute per mile range or faster, typically time trials for mile, 5k, 10k) I do leg stretches (hurdlers, butterflys, crossovers). But for slow and short stuff I don't even bother to stretch. For the long run I run 1/4 mile at about 9:20 pace, then it naturally improves to 8:45 pace except when I take a walk break, but usually fades back to 9 flat pace after about 8 or 9 miles.
It's been 20 hours since the run and the achilles is feeling better. This is the same foot that put me on the shelf for 6 months two years ago. Then it was a sharp pain, like plantar, running from the bottom of the heal on the back outside, heading up towards the ankle for 4 or 5 inches, probably caused by cheap shoes. Six months off then two days (yes, only two days) in a plantar night splint and it was completely ok. This pain was a general soreness in a different area of the achilles. I was hurting in several other areas after the run, but all of them were in the spots that usually hurt after a long run. Knowing the pain came from a good effort was actually comforting.
Most of my problem is that my weight is still above 230 lbs.