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Too much too soon?

Monday, 28 September 2009 | 05:28 pm

Last night, after a delicious supper comprised of leftovers, whilst watching (for the first time) Indiana Jones  and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on DVD, and savouring a glass of ‘06 Pinor Noir (can’t afford my fav Chianti Classico Riserva ’04 vintage, anymore :( ), my knees began to hurt. More accurately, my left knee. I’m not sure if it’s soreness or whatnot but that thing was hurting when I would walk and put weight on it. I remembered to R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate) it and ended up R.I.E.’ing it as I was too lazy to find some athletic wrap and apply compression to it.

This morning it felt fine but I was still scared that I might have overdone my training (again). Months ago it was my calf, and this time around, my knee. I’m going to take some precautions this week and not do any of my training runs or get on the elliptical — I’m going to go lap swimming instead and do some upper body/abdomen workouts. Getting back into long runs “cold turkey” was a bad idea. LMFAO. Silly me.

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Long Run Training: 11 miles

Sunday, 27 September 2009 | 05:06 pm

I ran my scheduled 11 miles this morning and I was glad it was foggy and somewhat cold (but not cold enough!). I don’t know how to explain it but there was an unpleasant sensation to my knees around mile 4 up until mile 5 but went away after that — or I could’ve just blocked it out with my super-saiyan-mental-strength. ROFL.

Also, aside from wasting 3 minutes refilling my water bottle and dropping a tablet of delicious berry Nuun, and the odd break running into people I know, I think I did relatively well (time-wise). So yeah, Garmin Connect will report that I actually ran 11.64 miles, whilst Nike+iPod will show you that I went over with 12.64 miles.

Oddly enough, my next long run’s mileage is 12 miles! I think I want to do it… Or maybe I’ll get lazy and taper it off to an easy 9 miles. We shall see…

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Training Run: 4 miles

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 | 10:05 am

Okie, I was supposed to do 5 miles last night but I got too hungry that I decided to turn around early — that and it was super dark and scary running down the Strand on a weekday (despite the fact that I mostly ran the path with my sister and our friend Lisa). Still, it was a good workout!

I finally remembered to bring my Nike+ iPod sensor, so I have some Nike+ stats and Garmin stats, as usual.

Garmin Connect and Nike+iPod.

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Still cramming.

Sunday, 20 September 2009 | 11:54 pm

It’s been over a decade (actually, just about 11 years and around 4 months) since I’ve graduated from university and I’m still cramming. No, I’m not studying for an exam or anything intellectual like that (ROFL). I’m cramming my training for my Long Beach 1/2 Marathon!

I think summer got in the way of my training (it really did) and for some reason, I stopped, er, training. Yep, no running, no cross-training (does surfing count?) — nothin! Fast forward a month and it finally hits me that I have two more long distance races before year’s end and I’m not prepared.

I decided, after my horrid performance/experience at the San Diego Marathon in 2008, that I would never ever do that to myself again. As a result, I’ve been relatively disciplined with training and deserved my Camp Pendleton Marathon personal record and 5 weeks after that, ran another marathon and finished unscathed (with Sharool!). I guess I forget that promise to myself when summer arrived and the beer kept flowing! Hehehehe. (Technically, I stopped training after my last 1/2 marathon [San Fran in July] so would that still be regarded as summer?) ;)

Anyway, without ending up too wordy (too late), I’ve kick started my training by running about 13 miles on Saturday. I’ll be cramming the rest of my runs up until the fated day (Long Beach is on October 11th) and am hoping that I don’t fall off the wagon (or however that idiom goes) by the time the Las Vegas half comes by.

AHHHHHHHHHH!

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Long Run Training: 13 miles

Saturday, 19 September 2009 | 09:25 am

Supposed to do 10 miles but ended up walking the final 3 miles to bring the tally up. I was running with sis (Annelle) and it was good  because her pace was perfect for someone who was getting back to the swing of things. No real pains felt (amazingly) except for some soreness on the soles of my feet (stretching it out helped, though). Overall, a great jumpstart to my training. ^_^

Oh, I guess a month is enough for me to forget my pre-run routine that I forget to put the sensor on my iPod for my Nike+ system! LOL. It was cool, though as I still had music and was able to gather other data as I wore my Garmin and HR monitor. Stats can be found below!

Link: Garmin Connect (Time, Distance and HR)

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Omigosh!

Thursday, 17 September 2009 | 11:46 pm

I haven’t ran in a MONTH. I’ve got a half-marathon this October — Long Beach with the patent-patent gals ;) and then another one in December (@ Vegas!) I’ve been doing some sort of workout here and there but nothing substantial. I need to get back into the swing of things else am gonna suffer @ LB. >_<

I think after my first back-to-back marathon plus the other half-marathons (read: my limit was one half and one full a year), I’ve burned out on running! LOL. That sounds ludicrous, but I seriously think it’s true. There goes my planned PR for LB!

In other news, I got an early Bday pressie from my sis — it’s a triathlon wetsuit! We got it last weekend @ my other sisy’s first Olympic-distance tri event (she finished!) and I was super excited I wanted to go ocean swimming right then and there (we were on the beach [the Expo was on the sand] after all and the ocean was right there!) :) So yeah, add that to my list of races next year — triathlons! (Sprint for now). It’s an Xterra Vortex 3 and it’s tiiiight (both figuratively and literally!). Best of all, it was on sale. ^_^

So yeah, the plan is to jumpstart my run training this weekend and then carry over that excitement (yeah right) until October 11th. With any luck, I’ll at least best my San Francisco time (2:45ish).

^_^

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