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Archive for September 2008
Carolina Children’s Charity 8K
September 27, 2008 by gregshore.
| Good race but I’m not at the fitness level that I thought I was. I think I was babying me leg and wasn’t really pushing myself hard. I kept on imagining the other miles I was going to run after the race. From now on, when racing - there will be no more planned miles afterwards.
Cathy and I started to go for a run but I was haivng a pain on top of the big toe that was excrutiating at times. It didn’t start until we were about 3/4 mile into our run. Gotta get to start line healthy so we turned back in time to find Cathy placed 2nd in her age group. Overall, I wasn’t pleased with my effort. I didn’t feel like I was pushing as hard as I could have. Activity
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Friday Run 05:49 am
September 26, 2008 by gregshore.
| Ran with Pat this morning. She has come a long way with her running, both mentally and physically in the last few months. Rainy and cool - a good morning to run.
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A Different Week
September 26, 2008 by gregshore.
This week has been a little different. Saturday I had a problem with my calf and decided to curtail the running and to see the doctor. I did Boot Camp on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and bailed on the group runs. I either stayed with those who couldn’t stay with the group or did an ab workout. On Thursday, after our group run, the beginner class worked out with Ultimate Boot Camp. For many, it was intimidating, for others it was shocking. For all, it was eye opening. Some felt overwhelmed - others gained confidence. Amazing to me is the range of reactions.
I ended up in doctor’s office on Thursday morning and finally got to actually meet the doctor more than an hour after my scheduled appointment. Whereas, I’m still not happy about wasting my time, I’m really glad I got in to see him. The diagnoses was that I had a sore soleus (calf muscle) probably caused by the dehydration I had suffered on my longer runs. Coupled with dehydration is also the use of Zocor which can cause problems that are coupled with the dehydration. He told to ice and stretch 3x a day and to take 600 mg of ibuprofen 3x a day. I’m not a big fan of anti-inflammatories but the doc is also a runner and understand my desire to get to the start line healthy. He said to continue the training but if I needed to back off on the mileage to do it with the shorter runs during the week and to continue with the long runs.
So, I jumped right back in on Thursday afternoon and resumed the training. Steve and I ran 8 helf-mile intervals at marathon race pace (11 min/mile) with a one lap recovery in between, a total of 5.17 miles. I felt great afterwards and had no pain in my soleus.
Weigh in last night - 230, down 1.2
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Saturday Run 04:54 am
September 20, 2008 by gregshore.
| What a difference a week makes. I started my run at 5 because I wanted to meet others to do the Welness Center Run at 8 am. The weather was perfect - only 60 degrees and the humidity was pretty low.
After the first mile, I was running just where I wanted. About a 13.30 pace - it’s not fast by any stretch of the imagination but it will get me to the start line healthy. I stayed there and was even faster until mile 8. At some point after mile 8, my left calf became very painful. At first I was thinking it was a cramp and that I could stop and stretch and keep going. No dice. I believe I may have injured my calf. I did a Joe D Bands workout last Monday where we did calf raises. I was sore the rest of the week but that soreness may have been an injury. I was going to try to continue my run but figured I needed not to be stupid and headed back to MUSC for the race. Until we were about 1/2 mile into the race, I wasn’t even sure that I was going to do the race. Once we finished the race, about 15 of us headed to Hampton Park to do another workout with Charleston FitQuest. Activity
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Friday Joe D Bands
September 19, 2008 by gregshore.
Worked out this morning with our Healthy Charleston Challenge Team at Joe D Bands. The Bands workout was developed by pro football Hall of Famer Joe DeLamielleure. When he retired he saw his former teammates and friends becoming crippled from old football injuries and decided he would do something about it so the same would not happen to him.
My favorite part of the workout is the stretching and the ab workout at the end. I’ve been so wrapped up in marathon training that some of that has gone by the wayside - and it shouldn’t. Using the bands enables me to get leverage and extension that I can’t get otherwise. It’s not as cardio intense as Boot Camp or running but for me, it is filling a void in my training.
Last night’s weigh-in=232.2, down 4.3 lbs.
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Thursday Run 04:48 pm
September 18, 2008 by gregshore.
| What a joy to run today and not be absolutely dripping wet at the end. I was soaked but I was not literally dripping wet like I normally am. The humidity was only 40%!
Steve and I started out to run 4 miles. I had not precisely plotted it out and we ran 4.5 miles. You might notice that our pace quickened considerably at the end. We needed to be at a meeting and made it just in time. Activity
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Wednesday Run 05:59 am
September 17, 2008 by gregshore.
| Started out with a group run - 16 people! - and ended up running with a friend who hasn’t been out there on the roads much in the last few weeks. He did great.
Rest of the group went on ahead - a few people got lost. Overall, I was really pleased with my run. I picked up the pace in the second mile and felt like I could keep on going. Activity
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Tuesday Boot Camp
September 16, 2008 by gregshore.
Today showed me why I need to not do the regular Boot Camp class. We did a lot of sprint-jogs at the beginning of the class and I really need that day of rest from running hard. I can run, I just can’t run hard. We also did Body Bars afterwards. I used an 18-lb bar because I haven’t done those kinds of exercises for so long. I’ll grab the heavier bar next time.
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Monday Morning and Evening
September 16, 2008 by gregshore.
At Boot Camp this morning we started out with an Indian Run. The group ran one mile. For many, it was their first mile in a long time and they struggled at times to stay with the group. After that we did sprint lines in the gym - part teaching, part workout.
This afternoon I did the last 30 minutes of a JoeD Bands class and then ran two miles on the inside track.
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The Pigdog and Dehydration
September 13, 2008 by gregshore.
| I’m really very dissappointed. after starting at 5 am, I still started to deal with dehydration after the first 90 minutes. I was probably at about the 7 or 8 mile point when my glutes started cramping. That has become my first indicator of problems with hydration.
I sent the rest of the group ahead and walked for a bit and then started running again. It was almost like I caught a second wind. I was really very surprised and if somebody hadn’t come to retrieve I probably would have kept on going. But I also battled the internal pigdog. (http://internalpigdog.blogspot.com/) The pigdog is that thing in you that make you want to quit or not even start. It’s tough to weigh the desires of pigdog against getting to the start line of the marathon healthy. I tend to err on the side of caution because I didn’t get to the start line last year. Activity
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