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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Saucony Ride 5 (Red) Lifetime Miles: 372.70
ASICS Excel 33 Lifetime Miles: 152.00
Saucony Ride 7 Lifetime Miles: 249.00
ASICS DS Trainer Lifetime Miles: 212.20
Asics Cumulus 16 Lifetime Miles: 241.30
Fri, Oct 29, 2010
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

Back in Indiana and it was a lot cooler.  I just did an easy run today.  I had more problems than normal with the achilles today.  Yesterday while boarding the rental car bus at the airport I got my foot turned in a funny way and tweaked the sore achilles.  Today it was sore and took a little longer than normal for the pain to go away.  More ice and treatment this weekend to see if I can get it back under control.  Glad to be able to get in the run today.

54:10 (7:45 avg) 

Saucony Ride (Blue) Miles: 7.00
Comments
From rockness18 on Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 21:06:44 from 75.25.96.223

Jim, I feel your pain. I'm just beginning to get over a full year with a sore achilles. I found icing did very little good for me, but deep massaging was helpful- brought blood to the area. Over the past few months, I've not done any real "speedwork"- 10k pace is about as hard as I can run without tweaking the problem area. I guess it's one of the realities of hitting 40. It's aggravating, yet I'm sure you'll be able to work things through.

From JimF on Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 12:23:26 from 68.46.211.156

I guess you are right about the getting older part. I ran for several years with no problems but have had two issues this year (hip and achilles). I will try to massage and see if that helps. It is kind of weird. Some days it bothers me and other days it is no problem. I am just trying to keep pushing on.

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