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Location:

Tallahassee,FL,

Member Since:

Jul 13, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Ran track/xc in high school

Track 2 years at FSU (400 and 400 hurdles) 

Skip ahead 15 yrs for my old man PRs... 

100m 12.31; 200m 25.74; 400m 56.94; 800m 2:17; Mile 5:11; 2 Mile 11:57; 5K 19:08; 10K 41:43; 15K 1:03:14; Marathon 3:26

Short-Term Running Goals:

Break through the 19 then 18 minute mark for 5K

Return to full speed track workouts

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

USATF Age Group All American times in 200 (24.6), 400 (56.0) and 800 (2:11)

Qualify and run Boston before I hit 50... but after I complete my sprint goals  

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Exalt Lifetime Miles: 250.20
Ignition3 Lifetime Miles: 285.90
Equation6 Lifetime Miles: 214.55
Trance12 Lifetime Miles: 411.40
Guide7 Lifetime Miles: 134.80
Sun, Jun 08, 2014
Total Distance
5.00

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.

Comments
From Bret on Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:22:50 from 216.234.133.229

Nice to have you back. So - I gather you had an achilles tear?

From dugco on Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:34:58 from 68.35.217.251

No, luckily not a tear, just pretty good bout of tendonitis. Rested it for a couple weeks with no real improvement so went to doc who confirmed no bone spurs or stress fractures. He said continue icing blah blah and I could resume running, slowly on flat soft surfaces. He advised that it likely would be weeks if not months before painfree running - be diligent with stretching/strengthening and check back if any swelling or increased pain. So far so good.

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