Author: perry
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New shoes and handheld water bottle
Picked up some new shoes on sale for like $50 from Running Warehouse. They feel pretty luxurious on my feet while walking around the house. I’ve never tried Mizuno shoes before but I wanted to try something other than Brooks with all the shin splint problems I’ve had. They say the shoe is for mild…
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My 500Festival MiniMarathon Race Report
Today was race day! Yipee! I left my house at about 5:45AM, well it was exactly 5:45AM as I hit the button to lower the garage door. Made it downtown fast enough, just a bit of traffic getting in to my chosen garage. I parked basically right outside of my coral. I hit the porta…
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Slashing through seven miles
I guess I’m officially, if it wasn’t official before, in taper mode. We did 7 miles during our run tonight. And a WET seven it was. Had pretty heavy down pours for around the middle three miles, but the temperature was just about right. I wasn’t cold when it was raining, and it wasn’t miserably…
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Doing More Running
Ok, why can’t I remember to post more? Who knows. Since I last posted I’ve completed a “12” mile run and a “9” mile run. The courses were a bit short and we ended up with 11.33 and 8.60, but, oh well. I’m glad I was able to finish them and without excruciating pain! I’ve…
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Chugged through 10 miles this week
Two Wednesday’s ago I did 9 miles. It hurt. A lot. I actually cut the course short and walked some because of the pain in my upper right leg. Don’t know what it was about. But I’ve tracked down some hip exercises and have been doing them since. So this past week had me doing…
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Back to some running
Ok, I keep forgetting about my blog! Sheesh. Last Wednesday was so nice, I just had to get back to running a day earlier than the doctor said. Problem was, it was a 8 mile run with the training group. I figured I would get to a turn around point that would let me do…
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Officially Injured, Again, but I know why!
So Wednesday night we did six miles with the training program. By the end of it, both of my shins were basically numb. I averaged 9:12/mile. That’s been my pace in the past, but I’ve been moving a little quicker recently and I was able to feel myself slowing down as I went. So I…
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Shins are hurting again
So, I should be finishing up a five mile run, but instead I’m writing this post. On Monday night, we did a small fartlek workout. About a mile to warmup, then four repeats of 2 minutes slow / 1 minute fast, then a mile cooldown. I woke up Tuesday to painful shins. Not as bad…
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Dietitian Meeting and more training
Another week of the training program down. Still having numbness in my feet and some slight shin pain. I found some exercises in a forum post to help me stretch / strengthen my lower leg muscles. I’ve done those a couple times, and done some icing of the tender areas, and massage with a tennis ball. Today’s…
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Still some numbness when running
On Saturday I ran the 5k in about 26:27.. I say about because the online results just showed my gun time for some reason, so my time is what Runkeeper on my iPhone showed. I did the miles in 8:26, 8:27, and 8:51. The last mile was so much slower because of the numbness in…