This just hasn’t been my summer. Just as I thought I was pulling out of my running slump, a nasty flu bug knocked me on my ass. Last Sunday, Helen and I were planning to run twenty miles or so, my last longish run before the 100. It never happened. [...]
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I’ve run 10+ miles in each of the last four days. Normally, I wouldn’t feel like this was an accomplishment worth spending much thought on, much less writing about, but this particular streak comes as a huge relief… I’ve been in a serious rut ever since Leadville that I just haven’t been able [...] I’d been putting off looking into the details of tomorrow’s trail marathon until the last possible moment. I guess that was my way of avoiding the stress that knowing the course would bring. This morning, with the race less than 24 hours away, I figured I finally needed to quit putting it off. The [...] I got to run 16 miles on my favorite stretch of road in the world today, but it wasn’t easy. I started in Rollinsville, Colorado at an elevation of 8,474 feet and ran the eight miles to the Moffat Tunnel, which sits at 9,197 feet. In addition to the steady climb, I [...] This past weekend was my only weekend in New York this entire month. As such, I figured this would be the one weekend I’d get only pavement running in. Turns out, I was wrong. Sunday morning, Helen said she wanted to run trails so we hopped on the 6 and rode up [...] The 50 beat me up pretty bad. Today, five days after the race, I’m still grimacing whenever I go down stairs, and I still can’t seem to run more than a couple miles without getting winded. I went out for a 10 mile loop over the Triboro and Queensboro with Antonio yesterday and [...] This time tomorrow, I’ll be almost four hours into a run. And I won’t even be halfway done yet. It’s a little tough to wrap my head around that. I’m more than nervous; I’m scared. But, it’s a good scared. Mostly. It’s venturing into the unknown, trying something new. [...] I took three unplanned days off because of tendonitis in my right foot where the big toe attaches to the metatarsal. It had been getting worse and worse, but I hoped it would go away and tried to ignore it. But by Saturday morning, my foot was all swollen and red and I [...] Yesterday, I ran eight miles farther than I’ve ever run before. It went pretty well. Or, at least, as well as running 34 miles for the first time can go. It started with Helen and I running quickly down from our place to the Upper West Side where Sarah was waiting patiently (despite the [...] Antonio and I headed over to Riverbank this morning to get some speedwork in. The 3 mile warmup to get there felt tough, as most early morning runs do for me, and I was regretting my decision to stick a track workout in the schedule. Running is fun. Running painfully fast on the track, [...] |
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