a barrel of this

Well, after a week of rest my left knee felt good for 2 miles and crap for 1.43 miles. Not so good. I’ve been icing it and taking the ibuprofen sporadically but it is still sore. At this point my chances of running the marathon are rapidly diminishing. I’m not even certain it is runner’s […]

I managed to hold a 7:18/mile pace for this run. I’ve been trying to increase my pace on the shorter mileage. That’s the plan anyway. Unfortunately, I ran into some game day traffic. I feel for the diehard Giants fans coming out to see the remaining games even though the team didn’t make the playoffs. […]

4×1200m speed work. It was supposed to be 1600m but I misread the distance this morning. Not so big on the morning runs. The speed work does build confidence in going fast but not so much in going the distance. 26 miles seems like a lifetime of running at the moment.

First day back after more than a week off due to illness. The illness hasn’t departed either. But the run wasn’t too bad despite the layoff. I think at this point I’m just going to ignore the head cold and push on. I actually felt better after the run than before.
Faxed in my transfer […]

Speed work. 7 x 800m with short rest jogs in between for a total of 7km. I’ll be interested to see the speeds on the generated map because it felt fast. After this marathon in October it is back to half-marathon and below distances and hopefully lots of trails. I am over pavement. It is […]

I am in trouble. I caught a cold on Sunday and I’ve been doing nothing but sleeping and working since then. I finally went out for a brief evening run. But everything was tightening up. I tried to run slow and ease back into it but, as we’ve learned, I can’t pace myself to save […]

Near race pace today. I say near because there were no other runners to chase, no encouragement from anyone around, and I didn’t start out with the intention to run at race pace. However, I was tickled to turn in a fairly quick time. Unfortunately, at work today I stooped down to pick something up […]

A bit of a speed burst for the last .6 miles or so. Thus I think my condition is improving from fair to good. I’m trying to increase my distance very slowly. There was another runner out this morning running the same route at a slightly quicker pace. So the burst was actually to see […]

There were some crazy storm clouds out this morning. It looked like I was heading right into the rain but luckily I escaped and I believe no rain actually ever fell to ground. I tried to pick up the pace a bit today even though I have yet to increase distance. An increase in either […]

Go foam roller, go! I got through this run without too much pain and I only stopped once to stretch. The foam roller definitely seems to be helping. Also, I increased the tempo this morning. For some reason, and this is corroborated by other runners who post about such things online, running faster makes the […]