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Location:

New Palestine,IN,USA

Member Since:

Oct 23, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

5k - 18:59 (3/09)
4M - 25:06 (9/09)
10k - 41:01 (11/07)

Half - 1:25:58 (11/09)

Marathon - 3:06:33 (12/09)

Short-Term Running Goals:

1:25 for the half marathon
Sub 39:00 for the 10k.
3:07 marathon
18:30 5k

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Long-Term Running Goals:

Break 3:00 for the marathon.

Personal:

Married, two daughters (18 and 15).  Masters runner trying to get competitive in my age group.

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ASICS Excel 33 Lifetime Miles: 152.00
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We have had some unbelievable weather the last week. This is not normal for Aug in Inidana. It is usually hot and humid this time of year.

Well after icing and stretching my knee yesterday it felt much better today. As I started out there was still some tightness in the knee but no pain. I stopped a couple of times in the first two miles to stretch it out and that helped. After 3 miles I thought I would pick up the pace and see how it felt running faster on it. Suprisingly, it felt better when I was running faster. I just kept up the pace and decided I would try a tempo run and see how long I could go. If the knee caused any problems I would shut it down. I continued to feel good so made it through 4 miles at tempo pace. Here are the splits (7:01, 7:03, 7:09, 6:54). I didn't really push it hard since I was being careful with the knee. I did a 1 mile cooldown and again my knee felt tighter running slower than when I was doing the tempo. Still not really sure what is going on but hopefully another day of ice/stretching will do the trick.

I am thinking about doing some doubles this week since I figured two shorter runs would be easier on the body than one longer run.

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Comments
From Tom on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 16:16:57

Nice job on the tempo. I've also had the experience on occasion when certain aches and pains feel better during fast running than slow. I'm not sure if it's a running form issue or if the brain turns off or ignores pain signals during fast running so it can focus on other things. Hopefully whatever the case your knee will feel as good or better tomorrow than it does today.

From Ian on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:19:13

Good work on the tempo. When I get knee pain running off road helps me and switching shoes. The doubling is a good idea but lay off the ibuprofen to monitor the pain for the 2nd run.

From JimF on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 14:00:33

Tom, Ian,

Thanks for the feedback. I have been trying to put all of the advice into action and have seen some good results. Still not back to normal but getting closer.

Jim

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