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Portland,OR,

Member Since:

Nov 02, 2005

Gender:

Male

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Running Accomplishments:

5K: 15:41-Portland Track Festival 2010

10K: 31:34-Linfield College (Track) 2012

10 Mile: 51:57-Pear Blossom 2009

1/2 Marathon: 1:10:42-Foot Traffic Flat 2010

Marathon: 2:29:35-Newport 2013

50K: 3:48:06-Weiser River 50K 2021

Short-Term Running Goals:

Next Race:

12-hour race, sometime in 2021

100 mile race, sometime...

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 1:10 Half Marathon

Sub 2:30 Marathon

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Mon, Mar 03, 2008
Total Distance
8.00

Felt okay this morning. Was going to go 10, but my left leg didn't feel great. In fact, it hurt from mile 2 until I stopped. The area below my calf and above my achilles. I've never felt pain there before, so we'll see. It seemed to hurt worse on the downhills, even the minor declines. I swear, it seems like every entry I'm listing some body part that's not good. Hopefully it's nothing.....

Pace: 6:45

Red (210)

Bike 5 miles

Comments
From Superfly on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 17:34:03

Glen sorry to hear about your hurts! One thing I've noticed on your blog is your overall pace on training runs. Where your trying to heal an injury it would help to back off the pace for like a month until your body starts to recover. I know for myself and many others on the blog our day-to-day pace isn't any faster than 7min pace or most likely slower. You try training faster than that and it's going to be a new injury every day.

So it's just my 2 cents but I'd try backing way off on the pace for at least a month... but keep the mileage up. Then only do 1-2 tempo workouts a week if you feel good.

Mileage is way more helpful than speed IMHO.

From Little Bad Legs on Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 19:50:14

Clyde- I hear you, but I feel stuck. In 12 years of running, without fail, every time I go over 40 miles/week, I get injured, so big miles are out of the question. In January 2006 I learned of a plan that had a person running 3 days a week, but with higher intensity on each run. I've been doing that for over 2 years and have had good results and have been able to stay injury free.

Until the marathon anyway.... It seems that since October things haven't been "right" and that's when the knee and hip pain first began. I've been to the chiro a few times (and going again tomorrow) and they keep telling me my legs are slightly different lengths and that's the root of my problem. Hopefully the new guy tomorrow can get me right. If not, who knows?

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