dawson's running history

My foot was still feeling a little tender from yesterday, so I only did two miles on the treadmill while at the gym.  I have been taking some IBU for it and icing it when I go to bed, and it has felt much better since I started a couple of days ago.  I think I will just keep taking it easy and see how it goes.

Took it easy on the treadmill to make sure my foot does not get any worse.  I felt pretty good, and by the end I was not feeling any discomfort where I usually do, so that is good.  I think I will just SLOWLY increase the weekly mileage, while keeping the intensity fairly light and see how that goes...

Today I decided that I was going to keep it nice and easy for the run at the gym today.  I have been doing a good job of not making my foot any worse, and I wanted to make sure and continue that.  I started off at 5 miles per hour, but I slowly increased until I was going an average of about 6.2 mph or so.  My foot did not really bug me at all, which is a very good sign.  I will continue to keep my pace easy for at least another week to ensure I do not re-injure myself.

Today was a hard one! My shins were very sore starting off, but  thankfully my foot seems to have gotten over whatever was plaguing it.  It was very windy in St George this morning, so the second half of my run was all against the wind, which made me a big sail!  My athsma really kicked in when I got home.  It took a while to get over.  I hope this week I can get in about 25 miles or so.

Today was a "speed" workout.  I put it like that because it was kind of pathetic.  I was tired and sore from the day before (but I got my new aquarium set up :), and I guess the SGRC workout got cancelled this morning, so I ended up doing one by myself.  I can definitely see a difference in my running if someone is right next to me!  I did 2-800's and 2-400's with a warm-up and cool-down of one mile each.  Hey, at least I didn't just go back to bed when I saw that nobody else had shown up!

At the gym I decided to jog a little while my wife was doing her cardio.  Man, did my legs hurt!  I even started to get a cramp/stitch in my side after going up to about 5.5 miles per hour.  After 1.3 miles, I decided that I had had enough.

Another run at the gym during my break at work.  I feel like I have lost some conditioning lately.  I know I have been as strict as I was before my vacation, and I did have a foot injury slowing me down for a bit, but lately I get really tired by the time I have the treadmill up to 6.6 or so.  A couple of months ago I could go up to 7.3-7.5!  What is the deal!

Today felt a lot better, as there was no wind to contend with like there has been the past few Mondays.  I did start to slow down with about a mile and a half to go, bit it is slightly uphill for a lot of this.  I think I might get to my goal of 30 miles this week.

Another speed workout at the track.  Steve Hooper was there as well as a few more people.  I did 4- 800's with a warm up of .75 miles and a cool-down  of 1.25 miles afterward.  My fastest one was 3:40, but that one was a little too fast!  The rest were somewhere between 4:00 and 4:08.  It was a good workout afterall.  It is always better with others, even if you are the slowest guy out there!

It has been a while since I have run for an entire hour at the gym, so it felt good to get some distance in this morning.  I even had time to sit in the steam room for about 1/2 an hour before I had to get ready for work.  The run felt pretty good.

Run at the gym.  I pushed myself pretty hard, and it felt good.  If I am able to keep up this pace, I would meet my goal for the half marathon.  I am not sure about it though, because my legs were killing me!

Today there were only two of us that showed up to do speed work this morning.  Also, the gate to the track was locked, so we just went for a run, which was a good thing.  Otherwise, I think I would have gone back to bed.  By the time we got back to the high school, we had gone 6.18 miles.  A couple of hours later, I did 3 more miles while at the gym with my wife.  It was a good day overall.

I did a run outside this morning.  I tried to keep it at a nice even pace, and I felt good by the end.

I had to run during my break at work today, which meant the gym.  Maybe I use the treadmill as too much of a crutch?  I find it easy to get on and do whatever because I know exactly how fast I am going and it is very easy to bump it up or down a little bit.  It is what it is though.

Since the half marathon is this Sat., I decided that I would get some miles in this week, but take it easy at the same time.  My knee was hurting in a weird spot for the past couple of days, so I did not want to make that worse.  My average time per mile by the time I got done was 9:36.  I think that I will be able to pick it up enough to finish in 2 hours.  We will see.

I was supposed to do a speed workout at the track this morning, but when I got there, I didn't see anyone from the runing store there.  I decided to drive home and just do a loop by my house.  It started out being a loop that I havent done in a very long time, but a little more than half way into it I decided to return home a different way, which added on the last .4 miles.  My hips were a little stiff when I started, but I felt pretty good by the time I got back home.

Did another 1.75 miles at the gym at a nice, slow pace.  Usually by the time I get to the gym it has been about 2 hours or so since my run, and I am pretty stiff and sore by then so I figure anything else I can do is better than not doing anything else at all, even if it is slow.

Run at the gym today.  I decided that I wanted to run at what would have to be my goal pace for one hour on the treadmill to see how it felt.  You know what?  I think I just might be able to make my goal of 2 hours or less for the half marathon this Sat.  I know that seems super slow to a lot of people on the blog, but it will be huge for me!!!