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Well, I was doing well training for a half. I was base-building really, but trying to increase my long run miles and just run them slowly. I figured my half in October would be more of a training run for me than a "race". However, I've been hobbled now for three weeks. I'm going to shoot for doing the Big House Big Heart 5k in Ann Arbor on the 30th of this month, but beyond that I'm not sure what

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Turns out clinicals will be Thursday/Friday either mornings or afternoons every other week. I can handle this. I'd prefer afternoons and I signed my form as such, but there's no guarantee. However, this pretty much means I'm not doing the Tower of Terror race on 10/27. Not really happy about that. Looking at it from a different perspective, at least right now I'm training and building a good base

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Okay, so it's been a month almost since I posted. Not like anyone's reading this anyway. :) Been a hectic month. School is over this week and I'll have a life again for about 28 days and then it's back to the last 2 semesters. Hopefully. It's entirely possible that the schedule will be impossible for me to handle with my job if it turns out the way I've heard it will. And I can't live without the

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I have a mild (thank God!) case of peroneal tendonitis in my left ankle to go along with the PF in that foot. The peroneal tendon is the one that goes around the back of the lateral malleolus (ankle bone) and attaches to the side of the foot. And guess when it got aggravated? Running on the slant on Hwy 163 in San Diego. Doc said it's not bad and two weeks of no running, lots of stretching,

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So the last time I ran was Tuesday morning. I wanted to run on Thursday but I had a buttload of clinical paperwork to do (I'm a horrible procrastinator). Since my Friday night was taken already I knew I had to give up the Thursday trail run in order to get it done. Lesson learned. Friday morning I was going to get up but wasn't feeling so hot so figured I'd try and get it in between getting out

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I thought it would be a good workout to go work with the local training group. It was. A grueling workout. Over trails. Lots of hills. Lots of branches. Lots of sand. Up hills. Lots of hills. Did I mention there were hills? According to Motionbased, some of these hills were a 30% grade. I made it..I ran up all the hills I could. I walked very little. I made it through at least 2.6 of the 3.4

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So now that my race schedule for the year is set, I need to start training for my first half (and the one 3 weeks later). This week will have more running than I've done in the past couple weeks and I can't wait. I'm feeling good, my legs are strong, my foot isn't hurting much, and the tenderness that appeared in my ankle after the marathon usually lessens after stretching, so I'll watch it but

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So first it was just the local half and the 2 Disney races. Then I decided I wanted another shot at San Diego. Then I decided that during training for SD, the Martian 10k and the Flying Pig half would be good "training" runs. And now I've completely lost my mind and have signed up for the Detroit Free Press half. Which means this is my current schedule:9/30 - Capital City Half10/21 - Detroit Free

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Okay, I've had enough of this funk I've been in. I've thought a lot about it the last couple days and I'm realizing that most of my problem is that I can't quiet my mind. I'm not happy with school, not sure what I want to do in a year when I graduate, not sure what's going on in my relationship, frustrated with my performance at the marathon, etc., etc. I have all this stuff that's driving me

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not literally, of course. How weird would that be? There's a point we all come to in our lives where we have to decide what we want most and how to get it. I never, EVER thought that I'd finish a marathon. I never thought I'd WANT to run. I never thought I'd find it in me to even try to accomplish a task like that. Before January and my uncle's diagnosis, I was content to sit on my ass and do

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I don't think there's anything worse at this point that being forced to not run. I jogged really slowly today for a couple miles just to go out and clear my head. It felt wonderful but I was fatigued at the end..so I know that I need to keep taking it slow the next week or so. I'm starting training for my half in September on the 18th though..so essentially I am taking one more week of recovery

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Okay, I admit it, I've fallen victim to post-marathon depression. I'm not gloomy gus depressed, just a general sense of not caring as much about stuff as I usually do. I've read everything I could about it, written up my new training schedule for my half this September, registered for a few more races here and there, and decided I'll do San Diego again next year for sure. None of it really seems

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The trip was fantastic. I left on the 31st, lived through the flight, got to the hotel that the team would also be staying at, and then headed off to the San Diego Zoo. I took lots of pictures but not all of them came out. I'll upload them soon. I was in bed that night by 7:00..which would translate to 10:00 my time, and try as I might, I couldn't stay up past 7:30. So of course I woke up the

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Not that anyone is reading this..I did a 5k yesterday and was very happy with my results. The first 5k was run after having done 10 miles the day before and working 7pm to 5am the night before. I was tired and sore and out of energy. I finished in 41:54, which was still okay for me as it was under a 14 minute mile and considering the circumstances I felt lucky.However, yesterday I ran another one

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Completed 20 miles. I should say, completed 10, crawled through 10. My foot was doing fine for a while, and then all of a sudden during the 20 miler, after having run/walked the first 10 miles in just over 2 hrs, my hips tightened up and my foot started aching. I stopped to use the facilities at the park we started at after the 10, and we had to do the same loop all over again. I stretched for a

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Hmmm..guess maybe I should change the name of my blog? I didn't realize it's been damn close to 2 months since I posted last. :)Things are going well..except that last weekend during the 14 mile training, my foot disagreed with me. I walked about the first mile to warm up my legs as I've been having shin pains (not really sure if it's shin splints or not) at the beginning of my runs for about the

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It is slow, but it is being made. My math sucks, but I'm pretty certain that my running pace is just about 11:30 per mile. However, because I still walk a bit I'm in the 13-14 minute per mile range overall. I have 86 days or something like that to increase the running time and improve my time. Regardless, I've signed my registration form and put in that I plan to finish in 6 hours. I can easily

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It went amazingly well. My legs were like Jello the rest of the day, but that was my own fault. I ran first thing in the morning with nothing in my stomach..bad idea! I had guzzled down some water but that was it. I had to do 3 laps around the windy part of the trail in order to get a full 6 miles in at the end. Part of the trail by my house runs through a bunch of trees, so that part was nice.

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Like no matter how hard I try, something ALWAYS gets in the way of me getting in my mileage during the week? I was supposed to do 3 miles today. I couldn't get it in..the weather was crappy and I hadn't brought my gym gear with me to run. Now the weather has cleared up but it's too dark. Tomorrow I have to do 6 miles. Because of a last minute opening at the Younkers fundraising gig (and my

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4 miles today. Still walking a little more than running, but it's getting a lot easier! We had our team social tonight and people had some great fundraising ideas. Plus some great food at Hobie's, which I hadn't been to in YEARS. I used to love the place when I worked downtown but they closed and I would say it's been a good 7 years or so since I went to the one near campus.I have now raised

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It's 30 degrees outside! And sunny and windy. To someone in a warm climate that would be cold, but to me right now it's warm enough to break out the bathing suit..ha! I did the 3 mile trail by my house and I'm supposed to do 4 miles tomorrow. I think I'm going to push it to Wednesday unless I do it tomorrow night, because I take the NCLEX in the morning and I'm not going to want to get up early

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Today was a 4 miler, but I only did just under 3. I have been sick all week with migraine and then food poisoning! I did my 3 miles on Monday and hadn't done anything since. So today I took it easy and walked. However, I'm up to a 3 minute run/2 minute walk interval, and I've picked up my running speed to around 5mph. It seems to help alleviate some of the achiness I was feeling in my joints.

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I did 4 miles this weekend with the Team Playmakers group at Hawk Island Park. It was fun. Very nice wooded trails..I can't wait to run them in better weather. We do part of the run through a cemetery..LOTS of hills, and so my time was a lot worse than what I normally do, but I didn't really time myself too much. I think I was still somewhere in the 13-13:30 min mile range when factoring in my

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So I made it through last week on a 4 min walk, 2 min run x 5 repeat training plan. Happily did 2 miles outside on the icy trail by my house in the cold. Rested yesterday and was all geared up to do the same repeat today. And my shoes decided they hate me. I've loved my Brooks Adrenaline 6's unconditionally. I kept them lovingly out of the dust while they weren't being used. I tried to avoid

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Well, you've probably reached this site from my Team In Training page. If not, go there and help me out! ;)My uncle was diagnosed with leukemia last week. So I decided that this year I would stop waffling and join Team in Training. And so, I decided it would be fun to train for the Rock 'N Roll Marathon. Now, I have no intention of running 26.2 miles four months from now, when I can't even run

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