runnin' runnin.

Run went good. Ran into my friend BJ (who also works with me!) at about the half way point which helped me push my pace as he ran with me all the way back to my house. Legs still felt semi-fatigued but not as bad as yesterday. Im going to really focus on taking my iron, two tablets a day, all the way up to the half marathon. 12 days!

Time: 9:45pm

Distance: 5.1

Duration: 38:11 / 7:27 pace.

Quinoa 365

So here is a book my mom got, and she is in love with the stuff now. I haven't had a chance to look through it yet, but it sounds pretty cool. Quinoa 365

Its hot out.

Distance: 4.6 miles
Duration: 45ish minutes
Vehicle: Suacony Shoes

This was a fartlek, and it was not easy. Especially because it was my first time going this distance in a long long while. But I got out there and pushed it. The first 2 miles to warm up we're miserable, it must have been 85 90 out and the humidity was killer. I am going to need to try to figure out how to run later but still be able to enjoy a family dinner. Overall the run was not great, I wanted to quit every second of it, but I didn't and I did finish. My 11 minutes for the fartlek were not so great, i felt slow and sluggish on the quick areas and did not feel like I was going a reasonable pace on the off areas. But i got out there and I did it. I saw the doctor today, we talked about how I need to watch my feet closely and make sure I don't reinjure myself, but also how if I want to run these marathons I need to jump right back into training. He suggested 3 ibprofen 3 times a day to help with the foot being so weak and the pain in my achilles tendon. He also suggested a good multi vitamin to help with the whole being a vegetarian thing. I am happy I had a chance to see him today, I trust this guy and he is always honest with me.

Top 5 Super Healthy Superfoods - Planet Green - Features

Top 5 Super Healthy Superfoods - Planet Green - Features

Ha I love it, they talk about how bee pollen is the highest source of protein, so interesting. Also this maca root comes from Peru, those fools must be jacked with maca root and quinoa in their diet all this time. Watch the video it talks all about the 5 super foods.

YESSSS!!!

Im Back and sore and out of shape too, but who cares I ran today I am so happy.

Duration: 28:48
Distance: 3.5
Time: 7 ish

I was so happy to get back out there today, I think my first mile was a little fast actually. I wore my running shoes, and wrapped my foot in the ace bandage and hit the road. The run overall was brutal, luckily it was only about 75 out and about to rain, but i did not have my mp3 player and had not prepared nutritionally for the run all day. I was thinking that I may need to get a pair of running shoes, since at the moment I have some money and I don't know how quickly I will get back into the vibrams/ barefoot. I am obviously going to need something that is light and thin, but has a little support for those days my feet are a little sore. I was also thinking about how I have 2 weeks to do a half, which is no big, but man 6 weeks to marathon, i may have a very slow pace, but I will still get it done.

Welcome back

looks what i made.

ah running. :-)

i ran. i feel like its been way too long. i almost felt a big wave of stress leave me as i finally got out to to run today.
after a LONG day, i was feeling so cloudy and fatigued - i wasn't even wanting to run. but then i realized - ok, i have 2 weeks till this race. and i really like sushi. jk. i realized, that every step counts towards my training and it comes down to these late-night-last-minute runs that you get in instead of forget about that will make all the difference later. its called DEDICATION!

So, my run:
ran in my five fingers just to treat myself.
my form felt sloppy after almost 2 weeks since i last focused on it.
BUT, jen went with my and i held a nice conversational pace but was also breathing a little hard - prob from being slightly out of shape from almost a week and a half away.

stats/
distance: 4.78
time: 9:30 pm
duration: 38:30

The urge to run again.

I just looked at my map my run calendar, and the last recorded day was July 18th. I am pretty sure though I ran a few days more after that. Point is the last time I have had a good solid run was a month ago. This really pains me I know that it is just a small injury, but right now its being a real problem. It is just a small thing and i will survive and I will run again. But man it sucks to have such a large release ripped from under me. I just want to say keep going out there. I am keeping up on the blog and your numbers are awesome. I sometimes feel like going and trying to run a mile as quick as I can even if it does injure my foot, at least that 6 or 7 minutes would be awesome. Well in the end I can't change what has happened and I am going to move forward, I will race on September 12th and I will not let anything stop me from doing my marathon. Its been more of a mental and physical challenge than I ever thought it would be. But in the long run, I made it this far, and when I get the chance I will be back out there. It may be a slow start, but I cannot ruin my opportunity to run those glorious 26 miles in Detroit. Also notice we have posted 125 comments on this blog. Good work.

month

semi sparse month here - but still trying to get back into the swing of things.



POST SOMETHING ALREADY, will ya.

beautiful.

these colors i can work with. good choice.

didnt get out for a run today -
again i was being a clutz and i hit my left top of my foot as i was moving my bed and now its bruised and i cant even move my toes. hurt so bad i was shaking! not sure why im so clumsy lately. anyway, thought id give it a break today. hope to do long run tomorrow anyway.

went and saw Michael Sandler and Jessica Lee talk tonight, this is the couple that will be back into playmakers on tuesday but they were in farmington hills NB store tonight.

they had a nice talk and got us up out of our seats to do some drills too which was fun. got to talk to them after over some dinner, and they are very cool people - hope to film the session on tuesday so i can get it for you.

I Agree on the color!

p.s.

i wish our colors could be brighter on here. any chance of that happening?

so yyyeah -

sorta slacked there for a while, letting my self rest a bit as well. but im back on near full track id say.

it's not dead its just resting.

crazy dream -

that's bizarre.

why don't you make yourself have a nice calming, healing dream?

visit a medicine man maybe -

have repairing surgery in your dream -

go back in time and erase the moment you got hurt -

those dreams sound better :-)

i'm still running had a good week this week, i'll post my mapmyrun stuff -

ive just been so busy, going all day long, and i havnt had the moment to write anything quality in here :-(

but i am learning a lot in this book that im reading and i should start posting more stuff from it. ill get going again this week.

The blog is dying.

Duration: one nights sleep

Distance: about 7 miles

So I had this dream about running in a marathon and I went the first mile and it took me like 22 minutes because my foot was sore, but then I picked it up after the first mile because people were like whats up man? How come your so slow? Then i took off and started running 7 minute miles. The funny thing about all this is my foot that was not hurting as much, all of a sudden today began hurting again. I think i ran 7 miles in my sleep last night ha ha. Funny but it could be true I may of move around enough to irritate my foot. Anyways Dr. Aunt Ann said i go to a doctor or i have to atleast wear the biggest shoes i have and no physical activity. Which I had kind of already decided this morning.  Ugh damn foot

Biked today thank God.

Duration: 45:12
Distance: 13 ish
Vehicle: Red Felt f90

Oh my it felt so great to get off my ass today and get out and get some sun and exercise. I have been feeling so lazy lately and a little concerned about my physical ability, but today I did a great ride at a great pace. I went my normal route and it felt so good. I am going to try to really keep up with the biking I slacked off b/c last time I biked it was hurting my foot, but today I am feeling good. Hopefully by next week i can start walking around town for a good distance to train for the AT. I will just have to wind the marathon in Chi-town or slowly get back up to 6 miles before then. I just don't want to push it and hurt it again then screw my hopes at detroit.

run yesterday

forgot to log - did 3 miles barefoot and it felt great.

fartlek

did my first very minor bit of speed in a long time. went 15 min warm up then did 6x30 sec with 30 sec jog in between. went a total of 5 miles. ran in chacos and got a blister on right foot :-( then went barefoot. it was a stupid idea to try to run in chacos for first time when i ended up doing the fartlek. oh well. over all - run was alright. i think i may stop timing my runs. it adds stress and makes it not enjoyable sometimes.

jog

ran while jen and friend dave biked. awesome to have company and ridiculous discussion during the run. ran down a trail through the woods in the pitch black and managed to stay upright. fun run, no pain. plan to be back to reg. training this week, but will be sticking in shoes for a while definitely and doing barefoot striders only.