north of an hour?!?!

well it was two runs but i managed to run over an hour today. Of course it was all at a pace upwards of 9 min/mile but that is ok obv. the first run traveled down the mcd course to the two mile and then uturned and retraced our steps back to the track. We then proceeded to not run clockwise(or counterclockwise) around the track but instead stopped. I then drove home in a northwesterly direction until i got to my house where i came to a halt. Following a trip inward to dreamland in my bed i moved due west to franklin hs where we had practice. there i circled the campus repeatedly for 25 min before again proceeding down route 795 and returning to mcdonogh for the senior meet against curley. the team ran in an uplifting manner which carried them to victory(except boys jv so sorry) which was nice.

Overall my foot seems to be improving at a steady rate now. i just finished icing 5 min ago and soon i will go to bed. and by that i mean go upstairs and lie down.

btw why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? interesting

i have to admit its getting better- i think?

ran 4 miles at mcd after franklin practice. then walked 2 laps around lax field with no shoes- its the second time ive done that to hopefully start strengthening my foot. the grass is super nice btw heh. franklin prac was somewhat annoying today lots of people were whining i got annoyed. but by the end it was ok again.

mild progress

another 43 min run today with the small franklin group(of people that actually showed up). it was good my foot felt fairly good prob 70% of course we re rurnning 830 pace or so but that doesnt matter esp right now. i did some good stretching before hand etc. One key which is obvious but still helps a lot is to not do a run right after a franklin practice. I might try to hold off on that for the rest of this year.

its not close to thinking about training again but its a little closer(maybe)

Penn

finished up watching a smorgasboard of events over 3 days online at Penn. Madeline came 7th 5:00.71 girls made small school 4x1 final justin 6th long jump etc etc. Maryland did good in general. The college races were fabulous both 4x8s, dmrs i didtn see the 4x4s the 4x1s were good.

Im tired from not much napping had lunch with matt and mom today so im going to bed early

runningwise things are stabilizing. yesterday 3.5 miles belmont a little faster felt ok.today 5.5 miles with jeff r at mcd 5 mile loop plus a little extra to get my shirt. my foot actually feels quite good right now. the choice is sleep or soak foot ill prob sleep. easy day tom prob 3-4 miles. IN THE MORNING.

rotational hamstring stretch= gold(or at least pyrite lets not get ahead)

So ran 40 min today at franklin. was going to do 3 miles and had done about 20 min when sierra came so we ran 20 more min. she is going to run a good 800 soon i think sub 235. this is fairly obvious since she ran 68 after an 800 and in the wind on friday. just come through in 74 or so and run hard the second lap. I think 400 for her on tuesday even though she was mildly complainging about it. im going to go over events for everyone actually tonight( although i go over them frequently haha).

Anyway back to me briefly my foot has been feeling good. Lots of stretching- my hamstrings feel a lot more flexible in two days! haha. just finished icing. Back to 3 miles tomorrow stick with that for a bit. Of course im already tempted to start doubles a little early but i will try not to. Also my left knee was a little sore yesterday- i need to run 75%+ on the GRASS as i get started again.

well time to get started again thankfully

So my foot is staying fairly the same the last 4-5 days. Also im better about treating it when im running more. So I think I will get started with more running again. For now that doesnt mean a lot so i think 3 miles a day for this week coming up. If that goes well I think I will move to 3 miles twice a day because that means twice as many chances to ice and stretch etc. The long meets make it more sore than running anyway. Yesterdays meet was fair I am battling to stay patient sometimes it is not easy.

Also my orioles fandom is off to a shaky start. 1-10 yeah! Time to start thinking about next year 2011 will be the one!

Wow it is windy all of a sudden

tired

well another tired sunday. the meet was quite long yesterday so i was tired today and needed to recover. ran an easy 3.5 miles which felt fairly good. patient but work the "rehab" stretching and exercises. home meet tom meh im tired haha. pikesville was good some good prs.

3 mile not island though

so a nice 3 mile run at mcd. foot was obv still there but didnt hurt- mostly felt it after. im trying to do much better stretching which will help hopefully. the meet was fair yesterday not a lot of super fast times it was hot which they werent used to yet. thats all for now not much to say today

confessions of a briefly former runner

well things are going ok. Ran with sanborn yesterday after two days off. all the runs right now are basically to test how the healing of my foot is coming along. Since i have had this problem for approx 7-8 months i have decided to try more restful measures to get rid of it. So a bit more time off and patience. The thing is that im pretty confident that in 3 months or so i can get into pretty good shape so why not try to get healthy and then get in shape rather than hobbling along forever at 60%.

Anyway its feeling better and better it just takes forever(does that rhyme? it seems so haha) SO another week or so of very light running. Really i should do some kind of crosstraining but im too lazy and slightly too busy although i could go down to the weight room. But really i dont want to ride the bike and as ive said before swimming would be ridiculous. I suppose i could run in the pool but its hard to get pool time. The only possible thing is rowing which is kind of fun but no big deal. Besides you cant crosstrain your way to massive fitness or if you can i dont want to.

Meet today against Dulaney should be fun. Got postponed yesterday due to a lacrosse game that got moved to their field. shocker.