Running: 6 July 2010 - "Genesis in Hell"

Why Genesis in Hell as the label for today's blog?  Because today's run was just that...hell.  I don't know why, either.  I've taken two days off before so this should be no REAL surprise or change for my body.  Yesterday my calves felt like two overstuffed sausage tubes about to burst.  They felt a bit better today, but while I ran (if you can call it that), I got a little shin-splinty in my left shin.  Another interesting physiolgoical observation this morning, was that after about a block I was ready to walk.  It felt like I had a medicine ball in my stomach.  Very tight.  Very uncomfortable.

Running: 5 July 2010 - Day Off

Yes, a day off.  A day off from work, and a day off from running.  My calves are bloated.  Could be from sitting on my butt all day doing homework.  Both suck.  So, to keep this short and sweet, I'll just put a picture of me and Dad up here from the Earlham Firecracker 5k.

The next picture I'll post will HOPEFULLY  be of me after the Ames Midnight Madness 10k on the 10th of July 2010.  A little leery, but Coach says I can do it.

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Running: 3 July 2010 – Earlham Firecracker 5k (25:22)

I woke for today’s race with low blood sugar (53).  So, knowing I needed some carbs to run on, I mixed 32 ounces of Shaklee Performance.  It runs about 25g of carbs per 8 ounces of drink.  I drank about half that before running.  Blood sugar before the race was a comfortable 149.  Post race: 117 with a pulse of 136 two minutes after finishing.

Running: 2 July 2010 - 2nd Race 1 day away...

Once again, another very nice morning for running.  Light breeze, mid 60's, still had the moon as my running partner.  It's a little more faithful at this than I seem to be, but I'm working on it.  Nothing major today.  Just kind of started off down the street.  I didn't want to run too hard or too far (LOL), but I knew if I didn't run this morning, the day and night would come and go and suddenly, I'd find myself in Earlham tomorrow morning wishing like heck I'd have ran today.  So, off I went...