Journal
Apr. 18th, 2007
06:33 pm - ug
Forget waiting for tomorrow. I'm sore tonight. Even my boobs hurt. I guess the fact that I'm starting to get boobs might be one reason for my overall soreness in general...
05:55 pm - I finished
Today was the Goddard 10k (6.2 miles for you Americans). I went out and ran it. I also finished. I was last by a half second, but I finished. My right knee wasn't too thrilled to be running again. I sense great soreness and pain tomorrow. But that's tomorrow, so screw it.
Overall I was pleased that I didn't fall over and die. I think I've been running four times since the marathon. None of those were more than three miles. So today I'm happy. I hope this doesn't screw up my pool game tonight (which has been on a bad streak the past two weeks).
May. 8th, 2007
05:42 pm - Back to running
I went out and ran 3.4 miles on lunch break today. My body feels ok, but I feel tired. I'm going to get back in half shape and run a half marathon. olga_ukraine talked me into it. It's all her fault.
Jun. 30th, 2007
01:12 pm - Run
We just did 10 miles. It was hard, but it definitely wasn't easy either.
Jul. 22nd, 2007
06:55 pm - 12 miles...
Last night I stayed up until 2:30am playing Wii with the guys. I did think knowing that the alarm would go off at 7:30am today. It did. That's when olga_ukraine and I got up and ran 12 miles. It drained me of my will to live. We stopped by Home Depot to pick some stuff up and I was getting annoyed when the people told me I had to walk across the store to get something.
But in the end it got done. I'm happy it did.
Jan. 20th, 2008
01:25 pm - Beefcake!
Today Chris met up with olga_ukraine and me to do a nice little run. 8 Miles. I guess this is the start of the marathon training. We're gonna be in great shape.
Jul. 26th, 2008
05:46 pm - WooHoo!
We did our run today. We're back in the 20 mile club. My legs hurt. I think there's a connection. olga_ukraine really did a good job making me suck it up and finish today's run.
Aug. 11th, 2008
07:46 pm - 22 miles is a long way to run
Yesterday Brian met up with olga_ukraine and me to run 22 miles. olga_ukraine and I wanted to get another long run in before the Ukraine trip, so this was our only chance.
The weather was really great in the morning when we started the run. It was really hot when I finally gave up with running around 21 miles and walked back the rest of the way. Oh well, I still got the milage in even if my pace did a nose dive at the end.
I'm sore and tired today. But I don't feel as bad as I did last time I trained for a marathon. I was looking over my journal entries from back then. Wow, I really didn't want to be running. Apparently I died on my 20 mile run. Good thing I didn't notice and kept plugging away.
This year has been much better for me with the training. I think there are a few reasons like knowing what to expect, spreading the training out over a longer time and not doing stupid things like drinking and playing Wii the night before long runs. All in all, I'm having more fun with running and I hope to keep it up after the marathon.