Training in Montana

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Location:

Billings,MT,

Member Since:

Jan 10, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

~~Longest Ultra: Bighorn Trail Run: 12:19:00, 52 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 20, 2015

50K: Bighorn Trail Run: 5:52:13, 32 miles, Bighorn Mountains, WY, June 15, 2013

Marathon: 3:25:01, Deseret News Marathon, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

Half-Marathon: 1:37:00 (downhill), Deseret News Marathon Split, SLC, UT, July 24, 2013

10K: 44:07, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2012

5K: 20:25, Big Sky State Games, Billings, MT, July 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back into running shape.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Not get super fat, and qualify for Boston before I'm 50 (April 2023).

Personal:

Started running seriously in March 2010. Married 22 years to a hot momma and we have 3 boys, 1 sweet girl, 2 dogs, 3 2 0 1 cat, and 6 4 5 6 3 5 3 1 2 0 chickens (until Spring 2019 when we'll start over). As of September 2018 I'm looking for work... yay. I'm on the local School Board.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Adrenaline 18 Lifetime Miles:						424.24
Cascadia 12 Lifetime Miles:						396.50
Adrenaline 18 #2 Lifetime Miles:						64.00
Altra Lifetime Miles:						50.50
Brooks 20 Lifetime Miles:						50.00
Cascadia Green/orange Lifetime Miles:						223.00

Thu, Dec 06, 2012

Total Distance

2.50

Cue Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. I ran. Maybe a bit too dramatic for only 2.5 miles, so I'll save that for my next 10 miler. I'll know I'm golden when I can run 10.

I took Kam's thinking into play and after doing the elliptical for 2.5 miles I tried the treadmill. It worked really well. I started at only a 5.0 and no pain (because I was warm) then after a bit bumped to a 5.5 for a while and ended at a 6.0. I did feel it a bit at 6.0 so that tells me I'm going to need to slowly ease back into running over a few weeks. Perfect for me as I have no planned races until late spring. Just glad to run without pain.

For my sake: Before leaving the house I did some calf stretches and some calf raises on the stairs. After working out did 3 x 20 sec calf stretches then 3 x 20 sec calf stretch on a block of wood, then did a few calf raises on the stairs. I need to do more warming up exercises even before getting on the elliptical as it's just super tight.

Blue Brooks Adrenaline 12 Miles: 2.50

Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Jake K on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:21:47 from 155.100.226.191

Here's a good blog post I read recently:

http://goo.gl/1YJUr

Andrea has been making me do the eccentric heel drops. Getting my calves really loose also help prevent the achilles from tightening up.

From Russ on Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 10:35:25 from 74.114.3.253

Thanks Jake! Looks like great stuff. I'll listen to the wise words of Andrea and do those eccentric heel drops (in a dress would be even MORE eccentric!).

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