What ever it takes!

5:20 am.  Talked to Paul for a little bit about his injury and how nice it is to run injury free,  I thought about it more on my run this morning and realized I had pretty much assumed all last year that running had to hurt, because it did.  It really is amazing to run without hurting all the time.  I do have the normal soreness after a good hard run but last year I pretty much was in a state of barely being able to walk most of the day between Plantar fasciitis and problems with my tibialis muscle.  Going into my schedule starting up in a couple of weeks I'm going to take on a new approach.  Run as hard as I can without hurting myself but at any time along the way I start to feel "injured" I'm going to scale back and recover before moving forward again.

Anyway, good run this morning, I've only ran 10 miles in 1 hour or less twice, and both were during downhill 1/2 marathons.  I decided it would be a good Monday morning challenge to try and do a 10 miler in 1 hour.  Splits went like this.

1 - 6:24  (Took the treadmill a few seconds to get to speed)

2 - 6:15

3 - 6:11

4 - 6:07

5 - 6:03

6 - 5:58

7 - 5:56

8 - 5:52

9 - 5:49 

10 - 5:26  (Realized I was behind target and really had to push this last mile)

10 Mile total  1:00:01.  (Missed it by 1 second, I know if I keep up my training someday I will be able to make up that extra 1/10 second per mile  :)  ) 

5:45 am.  Planned to do a nice easy run today, started at 7:30 pace, screwed around with different form, toe striking, short quick strides trying to stay above 100 spm, focusing on keeping my abs tight, leaning forward pretending I was falling forward.  Fun Fun stuff.:) After 3 miles of this I got bored and decided to start running with an incline, started at 7:00 pace 1% incline, kept bumping up the pace and incline to 6:40 pace at 3.5% incline for mile 7.  After mile 7 I decided to simulate say Ogden with a steep downhill following the hard uphill so for the last mile I set it to -3% decline and ran the last mile in 5:15.

Ended up being a much harder run than I had set out to do, I have a real hard time with recovery days, I'll need to get over that.  But I am happy with the incline run, I'm definately going to incorporate incline into my program. 

8 Miles in 55:00  6:52 avg. 

So yesterday my wife called and said we had $500 left in our health savings account to use before the end of the year and maybe I should make a dentist appointment for a checkup to use some of it up.  Being an obedient husband I called and made an appointment for yesterday afternoon, left work early for a routine check and cleaning.  Well to make a long story short 4 hours later I had myself an emergency root canal, and crown put on.  Last time I listen to my wife concerning a routine dentist appointment.  At least I used up the remaining money in our flex account.

I decided it might be fun to try and run being on heavy pain medication, I had a pretty hard run on the books for this morning and just decided to see how it would go.  Workout called for a 10 mile run with 5 x 1 mile intervals at 5:15 pace.  I knew the 5:15 was going to be a stretch seeing the last time I did 1 mile intervals I had a hard time holding a 6:00 pace, but that was probably 6 months ago.

Did a 2 mile warm up, and then started my 1 mile intervals, did 1/2 mile very slow jog in between each.  started out slower than goal and thought I could work my way down to 5:15,  I'm going to start keeping better track of all my runs with the chart below from now on.  As you can see, splits went 5:27, 5:20, 5:17,  (That 5:17 about killed me), 5:25 and then the final one 5:56.  Just couldn't do it anymore.  My stomach was having all sorts of issues and I was about to throw-up all over the treadmill. 

Pretty good run all things considered, stomach issues and pain meds.  Pretty surprised my HR never went over 170, that's only like 85% of max.  I'm not sure why my HR always spikes when I start running, it always does that but I don't count it, I've had it go all the way to 220 before. 

Distance	Time	Avg Pace	Avg HR	Max HR
1	6:30	6:30	164	186
2	6:39	6:39	148	155
3	5:27	5:27	166	169
3.5	4:14	8:28	151	169
4.5	5:20	5:20	167	170
5	4:29	8:58	151	169
6	5:17	5:17	167	170
6.5	4:50	9:40	148	169
7.5	5:25	5:25	166	170
8	4:21	8:42	152	168
9	5:56	5:56	162	166
Total	0:58:31	6:30	158	170

 

5:00 am.  I'm not sure if it was the incline workout Tuesday or 1 mile repeats yesterday, but my right hamstring and glut was a bit sore today.  Going off of my new "no tolerance for pain" moto I decided to swim today.  I'd kind of planned on getting a swim in this week sometime anyway but it was very nice.  I haven't swam in about 1 month with traveling and all.  

1600M in about 36:00 then I went and lifted weights and did some core exercises.

This week could turn in to a disaster for running if I don't try and get out for lunch today, we are heading up to Wyoming to visit family for Christmas and are worried about the storm coming in.  Driving through Wyoming in a blizzard is about the worst thing on earth.  So anyway, I had to wake up this morning and instead of running I drove my puppy dog down to my parents in Layton to babysit in case we decide to make a quick escape out of here today to beat the storm.   Waking up at 4:30am and not running is really hard, I'm really tired right now.