Doug's Running Thingy

Nice post-rainstorm coolish "long" run on the trails this evening.  Total distance 5.4 miles, but I'm still mostly walking/lunging/calf raising/knee lifting the uphills, so we'll call it 5.  Have been running 3 or 4 miles every other day for a couple weeks now, still babying the Achilles.  No significant improvement, but not worse either, so I think that's as the good doctor figured.  With this massive long run now on the books, I will start tracking mileage, attitude and progress once again - whew.  On the plus side, I'm only up about 6-8 lbs over the last two months of very limited activity.

Sore right groin from... bowling - sheesh.  Just a couple easy miles on the trails.

Four on the trails - leg a bit better today - achilles still sore for first mile or so every run.

Two miles on the trails with plan to run additional 3200 easy on the track at the summer track meet... cancelled due to lightning.  Bummer because Travis was going to run the 200 with a couple buddies - coulda been fun.

Steamy three miles around the folks' neighborhood in Dunedin.  We popped down to help Cynda purchase her first vehicle... moral support only, she funded the whole thing herself.  Well, nice downpayment and moderate 36 month loan - welcome to the world of debt, Cynda.  Got a loaded 2011 Chevy Equinox with just 25K miles - pretty sweet.

Back on the Tallahassee trails for 4 miles on our return from Dunedin.  Nearly as steamy as down south - ugh

Four on the trails this evening after a little rain shower to ease the temps below 90

Another slow four on the flat soft trails babying the Achilles.  Actually cranked it down to 8 flat pace for the last mile - hey, thats something!

Summer Track Meet #3 - ran 1.5 mi on trails and then jumped into the 5K on the track - slow and steady for six laps and then outside of left ankle (the foot with the compromised Achilles) started complaining so I bailed.  They ran a make-up 200 m (canceled due to lightning last week) and also 400 m for grand prix points - Trav placed 4th in both with a belly full of pizza... he'll never learn. 

Woooo, 20 miles for the week - slow and steady.

Got 4 in this morning before all day meeting out of office.  Took a zero yesterday due to sleeping in late and then yardwork all day resulting in sore foot so no evening run (ok, World Cup and Yuengling Black and Tan also prevented evening run) - ah well, felt pretty good this morning.

Could only muster 3 miles this morning.  Bowling last night so right groin/lower abs pretty sore again... hopefully a couple more weeks and I will be in bowling shape - sheesh

Droning along with 3-5 mile runs for a while.  Gonna run the Midnight Run in Dunedin next week, but then If I see no improvement in a couple more weeks, I may just take a break for a couple months. 

Dodged the lightning and rain all evening for the summer track series meet.  Travis placed 2nd in the 800 with a comfy 2:07, and I ran a couple miles on the trails and then jumped in the 3200 on the track.  Overcast, relatively cool and breezy weather helped me go 7:50, 6:50... fastest I've run in months.  Achilles was plenty warmed up this time and gave me no trouble turning left for 15 minutes.  I think I'm ready for a shot at sub 24 next week in the Midnight Run 5K! ugh

Later than planned start so I had to cut it short at 3.5 to make it to office so I could babysit the carpet cleaners - oh well.  Got in 3 good hours of cross training/pressure washing - always fun.

Another few hot steamy miles in the books - just plodding along.