After 1/9/2010 - I am taking a year off from marathon length distances and focusing on building up my base speed on half marathons and shorter distances.
2010 Speed Goals:
Build up my base speed on training runs to 10 MM miles or better
Half Marathon - break 2:05 (9.5 MM avg)
10K Goal 1 - break 1:00 (9.67 MM avg)
10K Goal 2 - break 55 minutes (8.87 MM avg)
5K Goal 1 - break 26.35 minutes
5K Goal 2 - break 25 minutes
Long-Term Running Goals:
Long Term Goals:
Complete a 100 Mile race
Complete a 100 K race
Break 12 hours in a 50 mile race
Run all portions of the Wasatch 100 course
Break 5 hours in a marathon
Break 4.5 hours in a marathon
Qualify for and run Boston
Personal:
I need to figure out something inspiring or funny to write here. For now - I'll let the suspense build.
For further unexciting information on my life, check out my blog: Adventures in Running
Apparently the mild calf raises I did yesterday caused my Achilles to flare up even more than it has been. I have to walk for about 10 minutes each time I start until it eases enough that I quit limping.
Walked the dog for 2 miles this afternoon.
We started the 100 pushup challenge at work on Monday and the 200 situp challenge on Tuesday.
Went to a new podiatrist today because my ankle has been hurting so much that I could only walk with limping a lot of the time the last couple of weeks. I began suspecting in January that the previous doctor had misdiagnosed me, but kept trying to heal myself. I also suspected that whatever the problem was, it would end up with me being booted.
This doctor looked at a bunch of xrays and did strength tests on my ankle. Then he started probing and when he pushed on a spot near the inside ankle bone I about jumped out of the seat. Tapping with a reflex hammer sent numb tingles up my leg and down to my toes. Diagnosis: tendonitis of the Posterior Tibialis Tendon. I am wearing a boot for a couple of weeks and then have an ankle brace to wear when not booted for the Buffalo Run on March 27th (I might end up walking the 25K), then back in the boot. Plus icing and vitamin I 3x per day.
Felt so good to walk without pain!
Walked the dog 1 mile this afternoon. Probably a bit too far and too fast because the foot started hurting.
Tonight I went to the gym and did 50 minutes upper body & core workout and 70 minutes on the stationary bike.
We started week 2 of the 100 pushup and 200 situp challenges this week.
I've made it 7 days without sugar and most processed foods (no junk food at all).
Flew to Michigan this morning. 60 minutes on the Stationary bike and played in the pool with my coworkers. We were working on conquering (my boss and I) our fear up jumping up on stuff.
We went out to dinner in Detroit at a Greek restaurant. My stomach was feeling blech afterwards, so did an hour on the elliptical and 20 minutes on the stationary bike to work gas and crappy feelings out of my system.
After my failed attempt to run last weekend, I switched to a
DNS on the Buffalo Run this year and switched over to being a volunteer.I figured it would help me with my
disappointment and depression over missing another race after all the times
that occurred last year.
I worked for a few hours on Saturday morning and then headed
up to the race.As I was driving I
started getting a little melanocholy thinking that it was one year ago that I
DNF’d on the race course and remembering how that broke my heart at the time.
I ended up out on Antelope Island around 2 p.m. because they
said they would need more volunteers near the end.After visiting for a few minutes, I started
trying to find ways to help out.The
finish area was running out of water and the White Rock Bay aid station was
closing down, so I hiked over there (only a few hundred yards) and shouldered
one of the full water jugs and hobbled back with it to the finish area.It was pretty funny, here I was congratulating
runners on finishing their incredible efforts and yet a lot of them were
worried about me walking around in a boot.By the time I had taken three trips back with water, I was pretty
soaked.Then I taught the aid station
how strong sports drink was supposed to be.They were watering it down so much nobody wanted to drink it.
I then noticed that the 50K runners were having to walk back
uphill to the White Rock Aid station to get their drop bags, so started several
trips that the volunteers then joined in with me on and carted back all the
bags.The last trip back a couple of
runners came up and took all the stuff from me.They said they were tired of feeling guilty about me hobbling around in
a cast.
Lots of runners to visit with around the finish area.I talked with Celeste Collman for a while and
also Twinkies (Matt) and Jun (Craig) from the FRB.I also met Steve P from the blog for the
first time.Matt was looking great for
having finished a 50 miler.I saw
Celeste shivering in a chair at the finish line while waiting for her brother
and went and got my blanket for her.She
was excited to have it since she had lent her blanket to someone else.
While taking a break for a minute, I heard someone say, “Maurine,
what did you do to your leg?”I looked
down and there was a cute runner huddled in a chair by me.I knew who she was, but couldn’t put it
together.It was Erika from the FRB
(Josse’s sister).We visited for a
little bit and then I realized the woman sitting next to her in an awesome green
hat was her mother, Karen, who I met at the RHPC half marathon last summer. We visited off and on as I passed them for the
next half hour or so.
Jim Skaggs, the Race Director, sent me off in his wife’s BIG
TRUCK at that point to see if there were items to pick up at the Lower Frary Peak
and Ranch aid stations.That is one
honking big truck to climb in and out of.After that, Karen Skaggs mentioned that maybe I could start taking
garbage to the dumpsters.The previous
year there had been three dumpsters in the next parking lot. I loaded up the
inside of my jeep with smelly, oozy disgusting bags and set off.Found there was only one dumpster and it was
already full, but I was able to get a couple of trips worth on top.Then we loaded boxes (a lot less disgusting)
and I found another dumpster at the old race start and did several trips there
until it was full.At that point I said
I wasn’t putting any more of the leaky bags in my jeep since it already was
gross and smelled like rotten milk.
During some of these trips I was able to see Dave Crockett
finish the first 100 miler on the island.He had started at 6 p.m. the night before and ran the 50 mile course
twice.Very impressive!
As things started closing down we started gathering up empty
canisters and such. I was put on emptying water jug detail, another garbage run
in the BIG TRUCK across the island to Bridger Bay, and taking down the
tents.By then we were all tired and
cold and the poles were freezing!There
were only about 8 people left and we were rushing to beat darkness to get the
tents disassembled and finish loading the trucks.
I was sent home with two big bags of Buffalo stew and my car
smelled gross the entire way home.It
was the first time I left the island after dark.I stopped at a McDonalds to grab dinner and
went into the bathroom to scrub my hands after all those hours of carting trash
and to clean up all the scrapes and cuts so that I wouldn’t get infected.I got home around 10 p.m. and still had to
scrub out the car, hose down my shoe and cast/boot and then hose down myself.
Although I didn’t do an official workout, every inch of me
hurts today and I will estimate I probably walked 3 or more miles on various
tasks.
I'm going to blog my walking miles until I can get back to running.
Walked 2 miles easy after work today with the dog. Foot felt pretty good in the brace, but I don't want to push it too much and re-injure the ankle.
Started week 4 (but it is really week 5) of the 100 pushup challenge. Most of our co-workers have dropped out, but there are still a few of us die hards hanging in there.
Tonight I am going to do more upper body and some Wii Fit workout.
