I ran my first ever indoor road race today. I imagine it will be one of the only ones as there aren’t too many indoor roads around. It was a very cool experience, the best of both worlds, in a lot of ways. There was no sun or wind to deal with [...]
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Almost three hours into today’s run I said to Sarah, “You know, I’ve been trying to think of another run that was better than this one but I’m coming up with nothing.” “Except the pace,” she said, “Our pace is horrible.” “Fuck the pace, this is the best run I’ve ever had.” [...] I love the term “recovery run.” When I first heard it (back in my days as a non-runner), I was skeptical that such a thing could exist. How can you recover by running? Doesn’t running wear you out? Flash forward to this weekend… I woke up this morning feeling like I’d been [...] I received an interesting compliment today. As I was walking home from an afternoon run along the East River, an older woman who lives a couple houses down asked how my run went. I said it was good, commented on the nice weather. “You run a lot,” she said. “Yeah, I [...] I was originally planning on taking an extra day off today. My foot has still been giving me a lot of pain and I figured the extra rest would probably do more good than harm. Plans changed. I had an unbelievably shitty day — one of those days where you would just [...] Considering the condition of my foot, running the 10K today was admittedly not a smart decision. Then again, I’ve never claimed to be smart (especially not when it comes to running). The foot actually held up fairly well. Unfortunately, the rest of me didn’t. I missed my P.R. time by almost [...] Where do you draw the line between “normal” pain and something that means you need to back off? If you ignore an important warning and push too hard, you’re likely to injure yourself. But, if you stopped running every time something hurts, you’d never run. Of course, this isn’t a new question at all. [...] This weekend turned out to be as good as I’d hoped, despite the fact that the Yankees lost and I didn’t do quite as well in Sunday’s race as I wanted to. I just got back in the wee hours this morning, but am not sleeping now because I had to wake up early [...] My running has been quite uninspiring this week. I don’t know exactly what’s going on, but it has me worried. Paces that should normally be easy have become difficult and paces that are normally difficult have slipped my grasp. I am really starting to worry that this slump may not pass before [...] |
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