Week-End Total: 12 Miles
Distance: roughly 6 miles
Time: 6:15am
Weather: cool & damp
Stretches: Yes
Water: Yes
One of the help desk people here had posted an invitation to run this morning. She and I and a Swiss woman went for the best run I have had so far, though the "railroad bed" because apparently that's what it once was. Through the woods of Plainfield, Vermont.
I guess I have resigned myself to the fact that, as my shin splint gets no worse, it may also never get better. My stamina is good, my endurance is good, I just have this pain in my leg. Have to deal with it.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Mosquito Highway
Distance: 3 miles
Stretches: yes
Water: not yet
Time: 5am
Weather: cool & overcast
Took a different route, VT 214 - less traffic, more trees. Also quite hilly with an uneven, wobbly berm. Can I freaking do this thing? In 2004 I broke my personal speed record. I was doing great. Great shape. Then I broke my heel and there was a cascade of complications, hamstring in my right thigh, now a vicious shin splint, maybe my time has passed, I don't know.
Stretches: yes
Water: not yet
Time: 5am
Weather: cool & overcast
Took a different route, VT 214 - less traffic, more trees. Also quite hilly with an uneven, wobbly berm. Can I freaking do this thing? In 2004 I broke my personal speed record. I was doing great. Great shape. Then I broke my heel and there was a cascade of complications, hamstring in my right thigh, now a vicious shin splint, maybe my time has passed, I don't know.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Viewing Trees, Eating Mudflaps
Distance: 3 miles
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Time: 5am
Weather: cool
Spending a week in Vermont. Marathon training begins, officially, today. Out on RT 2, lush trees and mountains ... and the occasional semi. I'd try to find a path through the woods, but it rained for a day solid yesterday, I can't imagine any of them are at all dry.
It's been several days, I have had a cold and then there was travel. Just driving made my shin splint act up. I wonder how much of an issue this will remain. It may simply never go.
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Time: 5am
Weather: cool
Spending a week in Vermont. Marathon training begins, officially, today. Out on RT 2, lush trees and mountains ... and the occasional semi. I'd try to find a path through the woods, but it rained for a day solid yesterday, I can't imagine any of them are at all dry.
It's been several days, I have had a cold and then there was travel. Just driving made my shin splint act up. I wonder how much of an issue this will remain. It may simply never go.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Another cold and dull rainy day
Weight: 165.5 lbs.
Distance: 3 miles
Stretches: yes
Water: are you kidding?
Weather: rain
Time: Noon
Reasons today's run totally sucked:
It was raining.
Though I have fashionable and stylish new glasses, they slip off my nose with the least condensation.
I have yet to get a new glasses strap.
So I wore old glasses with a perscription no less than eight years old.
They fogged up so bad I had to take them off anyway and run a little blind.
Because it was raining, I ran harder than I should have and pulled my shin splint again.
It was raining.
Because I was a little blind, and winded and in pain, I ducked not low enough under a tree branch and was poked rather viciously on the scalp.
I have decided to re-read Krakauer's Into Thin Air, if only to remind myself what truly insane training conditions are.
Distance: 3 miles
Stretches: yes
Water: are you kidding?
Weather: rain
Time: Noon
Reasons today's run totally sucked:
It was raining.
Though I have fashionable and stylish new glasses, they slip off my nose with the least condensation.
I have yet to get a new glasses strap.
So I wore old glasses with a perscription no less than eight years old.
They fogged up so bad I had to take them off anyway and run a little blind.
Because it was raining, I ran harder than I should have and pulled my shin splint again.
It was raining.
Because I was a little blind, and winded and in pain, I ducked not low enough under a tree branch and was poked rather viciously on the scalp.
I have decided to re-read Krakauer's Into Thin Air, if only to remind myself what truly insane training conditions are.
Monday, June 19, 2006
You want it? You got it.
Weight: 165 lbs.
Distance: 5 miles
Stretches: not yet
Water: yes ...
Time: 10am
Weather: Sunny and humid
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) - U2
I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
Alex Chilton* - The Replacements
Magic Carpet Ride - Mighty Dub Catz
Gonna Make You Sweat - C + C Music Factory
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Bust a Move - Young MC
Gone Daddy Gone* - Violent Femmes
Unbelievable - EMF
Jump - Kriss Kross
Deceptively cool this morning. Then the humidity kicks in and sucks all the water out of you. I am a drippy mess. I anticipated getting up early - but not three in the morning, as the boy dictated. I needed to take him for a drive, as I used to do with his sister, listening to scary, after-hours AM radio. Finally got to sleep, real sleep, around five.
It was a tough, hot, active, outdoor weekend. I feel as though I have been hit by a house.
Distance: 5 miles
Stretches: not yet
Water: yes ...
Time: 10am
Weather: Sunny and humid
Stay (Faraway, So Close!) - U2
I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
Alex Chilton* - The Replacements
Magic Carpet Ride - Mighty Dub Catz
Gonna Make You Sweat - C + C Music Factory
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Daft Punk
Bust a Move - Young MC
Gone Daddy Gone* - Violent Femmes
Unbelievable - EMF
Jump - Kriss Kross
Deceptively cool this morning. Then the humidity kicks in and sucks all the water out of you. I am a drippy mess. I anticipated getting up early - but not three in the morning, as the boy dictated. I needed to take him for a drive, as I used to do with his sister, listening to scary, after-hours AM radio. Finally got to sleep, real sleep, around five.
It was a tough, hot, active, outdoor weekend. I feel as though I have been hit by a house.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
I give up
Wight: 165 lbs.
Distance: 3 miles
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Time: 5pm
Weather: hot & sunny with a light breeze
And so. I have not written about the Plantars Warts because they upset me so. The fact is, though the recommendation on a bottle of Compound W is to consult a doctor if the situatuion has not cleared in twelve weeks, I have been applying the stuff to the ball of my right foot for almost six months. Sometimes I do not notice. Sometimes it feels like I have broken my foot. Today was like that.
I have to stop. I know it has done nothing, these bastards go to the bone. But I have to ask whether they were that annoying in the first place, compared to the misery I am occasionally in trying to get rid of them.
Distance: 3 miles
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Time: 5pm
Weather: hot & sunny with a light breeze
And so. I have not written about the Plantars Warts because they upset me so. The fact is, though the recommendation on a bottle of Compound W is to consult a doctor if the situatuion has not cleared in twelve weeks, I have been applying the stuff to the ball of my right foot for almost six months. Sometimes I do not notice. Sometimes it feels like I have broken my foot. Today was like that.
I have to stop. I know it has done nothing, these bastards go to the bone. But I have to ask whether they were that annoying in the first place, compared to the misery I am occasionally in trying to get rid of them.
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
The dogs hate me
Weight: 165 lbs.
Distance: 5 miles
Weather: overcast & cool
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Must have been the time of day, I hit dog-walking time. No less than three dogs (none of them very large - one a surprisingly agressive beagle) snapped and growled at me as I passed. One little old woman desperately held onto her pooch as I sped past, weakly saying, "Sorry ..."
Distance: 5 miles
Weather: overcast & cool
Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Must have been the time of day, I hit dog-walking time. No less than three dogs (none of them very large - one a surprisingly agressive beagle) snapped and growled at me as I passed. One little old woman desperately held onto her pooch as I sped past, weakly saying, "Sorry ..."
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