Month: July 2015
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Unfortunately it is time to retire some running shoes
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Over the past couple days I have had a few different pairs of shoes crap out on me, each with their own symptoms and indications to let me know that they were done. The coincidental timing of the shoe failures made it tough to sort out which pair(s) were the culprit but with some trial…
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13.1 outside in 2:06:04 – got started late after spending time in the pool with our daughter before I headed out
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I got up a bit late this morning – my wife got up with the dogs and let me sleep in for a little while. When I got up our daughter and son were just getting up and after waffling a little I asked them if they wanted to go in the pool. It was…
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8.85 miles outside in 1:25:28 – taking it easy, enjoying the sun and starting off vacation right!
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Yay summer vacation! Two weeks off work starting today – going to use the time to put in some long outdoor miles and sleep…glorious, glorious sleep. I thought about giving myself the first day off as a chance to sleep but I managed to convince myself to get out and get moving. I wanted to…
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7.25 miles in 59:53 on the treadmill – taking it easy to see what kind of damage a leg wound from the weekend has done
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Yeah – so somehow on Saturday I managed to put a bit of a hole in my left shin…not bad enough to need stitches or anything but it did get a bit swollen and it was not pleasant to move around too much on. Man…my last few months reads like a bizarre string of dumb…
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7.5 miles earlier today – didn’t get out early enough to avoid the heat so on the treadmill I went
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I have been fighting a bit of a flu the past couple days (had a fever on Wednesday) but have managed to get in my scheduled runs. Until this morning that is. The flu is now down to just a cough and I woke up around 2:30 am coughing like crazy and nothing seemed to…
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So after finally deciding on a training schedule, I go out and break it 8 hours later….4.45 miles in 37:36 outside
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With the cooler temperatures outside today (and this evening) and the smoke haze lifted from the air, I decided that I needed to do at least a short run outside tonight. My new decided upon game plan / training plan for the Lemming Loop in October has me not running until tomorrow. So 8 hours into my…
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Ok – I think I finally have a plan to start training properly for the 12 Hour Lemming Loop in October. Now to make it happen!
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I had planned on trying for an 18-20 mile run yesterday that didn’t happen in the end – lack of sleep kicked me in the teeth again and the heat/humidity would have been pretty brutal anyway. My backup plan was to run this morning instead – I was certainly up early enough (4am? Why?!!) but…
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13.1 sweaty miles in 2:15:38 – sloooow run today. Trying to save some energy for an attempt at 18-20 miles tomorrow.
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I knew I was going to be trying to do a fair bit of long slow running this weekend so on Friday night I decided I should try a bit of speed work on the treadmill to get that out of my system. I ended up doing 4 miles in 29:59 on the treadmill –…
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7 steady miles on the treadmill in 58:54. Going to start slowly increasing daily mileage through the week.
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I managed to get in a couple sets of swimming pool resistance exercises tonight while I was in the pool with our daughter for a while before she went to bed. After she was tucked in I got started on the treadmill – I figured I wanted to go steady and fairly strong to build…