dawson's running history

I had all the intentions in the world to make today a nice slow run.  I even started out running at 5 miles per hour. But, by the time it was done, I was back up to 7.5 miles per hour.  Average for the run was 9:46.  I met my goal for the week, with over 30 miles, so I am really happy.

Man did I feel stiff today on my run.  I am not sure if it was because I acctually made it over 30 miles last week, or the fact that I blew my diet all weekend long.  Whatever it was, it took a good 3 miles into it to even feel kind of ok.  Especially on any kind of a downhill, my left calf was having a weird pain deep down in the middle of it.  Anyway, I pushed through it and made it to the end of my run.

Today was supposed to be a speed workout with the SGRC, but there were onle three other people there, and I did not know any of them.  I assume Steve Hooper must have slept through his alarm or something...   So, anyway, I decided to do 800's for my first speed workout in a couple of months.  Here are my times for the five 800's I did:

1st- 3:59

2nd- 4:08

3rd- 4:15

4th- 4:17

5th- 4:16

I jogged a 400 between each one, with a one mile warm up, and a one mile cool-down(plus an extra lap in there to come out to 6 miles).  Overall time for the whole thing was 54:33.  Good workout today!

Today was a great day for me!!  I do my runs on Wednesdays as part of my workout at the gym, which means the dreaded treadmill.  I don't know about how others feel, but I cannotrun for more than an hour on the treadmill because I cannot make myself imput everything after the TM stops at the hour mark.  So, that means that I just have to push myself to run as FAR as possible in that time frame.  Up until now I do not think I have ever broke 6.6 miles (If I did, it was one time, and it would have only been 6.61).  I decided as soon as I started out that this was going to be a good, hard run for me.  To make a long story short, by the time I hit the 60:00 mark, I had gone 6.73 miles!  I know that for many of the speedier bloggers out there, this does not seem like too big of an accomplishment, but to me it was huge!  I feel as though the ever-elusive 7 miles in an hour mark is that much more achievable!  Anyway, I know that I will be able to exceed my 30 mile goal again for the week.

This was a run while I was on vacation in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, and while on the one hand I am kind of embarassed to post such a small amout on what is usually my long day, with the humidity down there I am really kind of proud that I made it as far as I did!  When I left the resort we were staying at, it was only in the low 80's I would have to guess.  Not really too hot at all.  But, the humidity had to be up in the 80-85% range as well.  By the time I got back from the loop, I couldn't stop sweating, and I even had to take two cold showers!  Another thing that was surprised me was how much it slowed me down.  I ran an average of one minute per mile slower down there than I usually do here in St. George.  It was a wierd experience overall, but it did make me respect mother nature that much more.

Today was the first run since I was on vacation, and the first one of any real distance in ALMOST 2 WEEKS, and boy do my legs feel it!  It was pretty windy this morning, which wasn't helping things at all, but I know that that cannot be the only reason for my slowness today.  I am glad that I was able to put in some distance today, and now I just hope that I can finish the week close to my goal of 30 miles.  We will see...

Run today was at the gym.  It still felt a little hard/slow today.  It makes me wonder how much "damage" the last two weeks have done?  How long will it take for me to feel like I did before my vacation?

I slacked off all morning before work, so 5 miles is all I could get in.

Just another run during my break during work.

Today was a long hard one for me.  Nevermind the fact that I haven't been doing too well since before I left on vacation, I also have not run over 10 miles for a while now.  At about 9 1/2 I could really feel it too.  I really plan on getting back to how I was running.  Also, I plan to do a speed workout with Steve Hooper and the St. George Running Club.

Today was a speed work out at the track with Steve Hooper.  It felt really good to do some speed work.  We only did 3-1000's, but I have never done those before, so it was a good workout.  Afterwards I did an extra long cooldown, mostly just to get up to 5 miles.  It was a good start to the day though!

So, after my two runs last week, my left foot was killing me.  For most of the day Wednesday, I was limping around so I decided to take it easy for the rest of the week.  By this morning, I did not feel any pain whatsoever, so I decided to give it a try.  Although I did not push myself too fast (average of 10:00/mile), by about 9 miles in I started to feel some discomfort.  I can definitely feel it, although it isnt as bad as after my run last Teusday.  By the way, the pain is right over the bone that connects my big toe to my foot.  I am not sure where to go from here.  I think I will try some ice/heat to see what that does.