Slowly moving to a sub-3

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Location:

Puyallup,WA,USA

Member Since:

Apr 15, 2012

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

I've been running since I was a 7th grader in 1988. At Washington High School (Parkland, WA), I ran on the cross country team and did the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m in track and field.

In college, a hamstring injury and IT band pain ended my college competitive racing almost before it began. With the help of my cousin, Preston, who was in Physical Therapy School, my injuries healed and I began running again.

In the 2000's my goals shifted to attaining a BQ. After making nearly every mistake possible in the marathon, I finally BQ'd and then ran Boston in 2010.

Personal Records:

1600m: 4:31 (1992)

Marathon: 3:09:41 (2012)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get my body weight below 180 lbs

Race a sub-40 10k

Consistently run 40+ miles/week

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3 hour marathon PR

Race a sub 5 minute mile... one more time! (Last time I did it was when I was a teenager.)

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Ghost 6 Lifetime Miles:						4.68

Wed, Oct 17, 2012

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Trainer 1 Miles	Trainer 2 Miles	Racer Miles	Total Distance
1.46	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1.46

Arrrrggg!

I thought an easy run of 2-3 miles wouldn't set off my IT-band. Yesterday, it flared up at 4 miles. Today, it flared up before 1.5 miles! I had to walk 1.5 miles all the way back home. Walking downhill agitated the knee, otherwise it just felt "tight" for the walking portion.

At the very beginning of the run, the outside of my lower right leg was giving off twinges of pain. I stopped to stretch and then decided to run up the hill out of my neiborhood. By then, the twinges stopped, so I decided to continue running. It might be time for some new running shoes. Whatever is going on in the lower leg may be the cause of the IT-band flaring up later in the run.

Plan:

Rest more (definitely no running tomorrow!)
Get new running shoes
Stretch
Roll
Strength training

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From DLTheo on Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 15:31:21 from 155.130.107.20

That's a stinker! I guess if there's ever a good time to get over an injury it's right after setting a PR in the marathon. I hope this doesn't end up taking a long break like before.

From I Just Run on Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:27:40 from 67.79.11.242

I hope this is just a symptom of the marathon recovery and you're back full steam very soon!

I just noticed that your two "Personal Records" are 20 years apart, cool! :-)Mine are only 2 years apart, since I've only been running that long :-(

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